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Report: Hamburgers Introduced to N. Korea
Las Vegas Sun ^ | July 07, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 07/07/2004 4:37:33 AM PDT by yonif

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has introduced hamburgers to his reclusive, communist country in a campaign to provide "quality" food to university students, media reported Wednesday.

The hamburgers were introduced in 2000 and dubbed "gogigyeopbbang," Korean for "double bread with meat," according to the June 29 edition of the North Korean state-run newspaper Minju Joson. The report was carried by South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday.

Although reports from the isolated country have in recent years mentioned the introduction of the American fast food classic, the latest announcement seems to credit the country's leader for their advent.

The news marks a curious development for North Korea, where U.S. consumerism is routinely reviled in the official media and people refer to the soft drink Coca Cola as the "cesspool water of American capitalism."

Wednesday's report cites leader Kim Jong Il as saying at the time of the hamburger's introduction: "I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries to university students, professors and researchers even if we are in (economic) hardship."

The government then built a hamburger plant and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to pay close attention to modernizing mass production, the report was quoted as saying by Yonhap.

Hamburgers from the factory were first provided only to students at the elite Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, but were later provided to other schools, the daily said.

Hamburgers are now familiar to many North Koreans, it added.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communiststate; dprk; hamburgers; northkorea; staliniststate
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To: yonif

Yet another society destined to become gogigyeopbbangflippers.


21 posted on 07/07/2004 5:06:27 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (You get more with a gun and a smile than just a smile itself!)
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To: nuconvert

One "all-dog" patty?


22 posted on 07/07/2004 5:06:30 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Larry Lucido
Can't help with the rest of that word, though.

I think the rest of it - gyeopbbang - means "Elsie the Cow."

23 posted on 07/07/2004 5:06:36 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: tiamat

Its a hamburger and a hot dog at the same time.


24 posted on 07/07/2004 5:07:56 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Be a Dollar a Day FReeper, and SMILE when you get your Mastercard bill!)
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To: MarkL

"The government then built a hamburger plant and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to pay close attention to modernizing mass production, the report was quoted as saying by Yonhap."

Doesn't sound like a have it your own way kind of place, does it?


25 posted on 07/07/2004 5:08:03 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Kerry: how can we trust him with our money, if Teresa won't trust him with hers!)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

All "political prisoner" patty.


26 posted on 07/07/2004 5:08:05 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: yonif
I wonder what kind of meat is used to make these hamburgers.

Indeed...

27 posted on 07/07/2004 5:08:10 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: reformedliberal

The world is full of raw fish eaters too.


28 posted on 07/07/2004 5:09:33 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Sybeck1

Just dont try and order one without the pickle, or you will have to pull over to the side and be executed.


29 posted on 07/07/2004 5:09:56 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

ewwwwwwww


30 posted on 07/07/2004 5:12:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Sybeck1; yonif

LoL.

gogigyeopbbang! gogigyeopbbang! gogigyeopbbang! Pepsi! Pepsi! Pepsi! Cheep! cheep!


31 posted on 07/07/2004 5:17:09 AM PDT by nuconvert ( "Let Freedom Reign !" ) ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
The world is full of raw fish eaters too.

Count me among them. Sushi ia a true culinary delight, and a regular staple in our household. I had it last night, in fact. Even my five-year old likes it.

But spare me the kim chee, which I think is Korean for "yuck."

32 posted on 07/07/2004 5:19:10 AM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: reformedliberal; Conspiracy Guy
Kim-Chi..

Isn't that like, "saurkraut", asian style?
Not much difference, is there?

33 posted on 07/07/2004 5:20:37 AM PDT by Drammach (Ripley... Last survivor of the Nostromo.... signing off....)
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To: Maceman

I like my sushi battered and deep fried with hushpuppies and fries.


34 posted on 07/07/2004 5:21:20 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Drammach
Kim-chi is like kraut gone bad.
35 posted on 07/07/2004 5:22:37 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Kim-chi, is that the rotten cabbage crap that they bury in a pot then dig it up after it smells like *#*!

Kimchee and FishHead soup......Yum-Yum....

36 posted on 07/07/2004 5:23:15 AM PDT by Jay Howard Smith
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To: GWTexan

(....long pig..)

Paging jeffy dahmer


37 posted on 07/07/2004 5:25:22 AM PDT by sidegunner
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To: yonif

I was thinking the same thing, what kind of meat? Rat, cat, dog, dissident? Who knows.


38 posted on 07/07/2004 5:27:25 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
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To: Jay Howard Smith

I saw a dead dog on the side of the highway that was so inflated it was about to explode. Somewhere in the world there is someone who would fight the buzzards and crows for it.


39 posted on 07/07/2004 5:27:50 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
I saw a dead dog on the side of the highway that was so inflated it was about to explode. Somewhere in the world there is someone who would fight the buzzards and crows for it.

A hell of a lot of people in North Korea would for a start..!..They would fight for the bones..!

40 posted on 07/07/2004 5:35:57 AM PDT by Jay Howard Smith
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