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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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I wonder what kind of meat is used to make these hamburgers. One may think it is made from the remains of those North Korean citizens the regime murders on a daily basis.
1 posted on 07/07/2004 4:37:34 AM PDT by yonif
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To: yonif

make my gogigyeopbbang medium rare.

gogigyeopbbang king, is my favorite fast food resturant.


okay so i just like typing gogigyeopbbang.


2 posted on 07/07/2004 4:39:24 AM PDT by goldwaterlives
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To: goldwaterlives

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a seame seed bun. Please supersize my gogigyeopbbang special


3 posted on 07/07/2004 4:42:16 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: yonif

better than the dirtburgers they've been eating. The problem is they only have three hamburgers for all the NK to share.


4 posted on 07/07/2004 4:43:09 AM PDT by RobFromGa (America is the World's Best Chance for a Peaceful Future-- Support Her Daily)
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To: goldwaterlives

Give me a double Gogigyeopbbang with cheese.


6 posted on 07/07/2004 4:43:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
sesame
7 posted on 07/07/2004 4:44:07 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: yonif

WoW. It's taken 4 yrs for the news of the arrival of the gogigyeopbbang to N. Korea? I can't believe they've kept it a secret so long.

"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."

Yes, nothing like QUALITY bread and french fries.


8 posted on 07/07/2004 4:44:17 AM PDT by nuconvert ( "Let Freedom Reign !" ) ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: yonif

Now the obesity Nazis will be after THEIR case, too...


9 posted on 07/07/2004 4:45:38 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: yonif
Exactly what I was thinking, Yon. You can put anything into a hamburger.
10 posted on 07/07/2004 4:46:00 AM PDT by Savage Beast (9/11 was never repeated. Thank you, President Bush.)
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To: nuconvert

"I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries ..."

I noticed the meat part is suspiciously absent from that description.........


11 posted on 07/07/2004 4:47:03 AM PDT by nuconvert ( "Let Freedom Reign !" ) ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: yonif; TigerLikesRooster

All I remember is that "gogi" (pronounced more like kogi) means "meat."

Thus, pork was something like "tweji-gogi" (pig-meat), and chicken was tak-gogi.

Can't help with the rest of that word, though.


12 posted on 07/07/2004 4:50:30 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: yonif

Cat.

It's not just for breakfast anymore.


13 posted on 07/07/2004 4:55:01 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Two all beef patties, special sauce, kim-chi, cheese, pickles, onions, on a seame seed bun.


14 posted on 07/07/2004 4:55:29 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

I think I'd omit the 'all beef' from that sentence.......and maybe the '2'.......


15 posted on 07/07/2004 4:57:30 AM PDT by nuconvert ( "Let Freedom Reign !" ) ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Kim-chi, is that the rotten cabbage crap that they bury in a pot then dig it up after it smells like *#*!


16 posted on 07/07/2004 4:58:25 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (John Edwards is to charisma what John Kerry is to commitment.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Careful! The world is inexplicably full of people who adore kim-chi.


17 posted on 07/07/2004 5:02:58 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Proud Bush-Cheney04 volunteer)
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To: yonif

"gogigyeopbbang" is Korean for "Soylent Green."

Mark


18 posted on 07/07/2004 5:04:10 AM PDT by MarkL (The meek shall inherit the earth... But usually in plots 6' x 3' x 6' deep...)
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"gogigyeopbbang"

Sounds like the noise one makes when vomiting.
19 posted on 07/07/2004 5:05:24 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: Conspiracy Guy

That's the stuff!


20 posted on 07/07/2004 5:05:34 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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