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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Korea a world beater in bacteria discoveries
Korea has emerged as a world power in researching microscopic organisms, the basis of the biotechnology industry. Citing a report in the latest edition of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, a British publication, the Ministry of Science and Technology said yesterday that Korea ranked first in a survey measuring the number of bacteria species discovered by 31 countries this year. Korea has found 68 new species of bacteria while Japan, which came in second, discovered 59. The United States came third, with 44 new types of bacteria to its name.
by Kwon Hyuk-joo, JoongAng Daily (December 16, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200512/15/200512152132467209900090609062.html

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

Makes me wander if they falsified that research.. LOL

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Its hardly surprising. Did they discover it in a hagwon?

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

ok everybody...get ready for the blatan explotation of the word...

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Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

So that's why they never wash their hands after going to the bathroom! More bacteria available to harvest for scientific research!

They should get the university students out on the sidewalks with a spatula scraping up all the lung-butter. Finally a use for the smoking, hocking adjosshis! Yay! Their life has meaning now!

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

All you need do is set out your petri dishes downwind of a dog farm ....

Shooter McGavin · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Location: ROK

Not surprising. The Koreans love every word that ends in "ia."

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

wait until they turn these studies around in a drive to explain how all bacteria is best regulated by constant kimchi consumption.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

They probably found these 'new bacterium' in the cups used at the martial arts schools.

You know...the cup that a few 100 kids use every day. The one that's washed twice a week.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

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bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

They looked in the Kimchi and it wasn't from China. They found huge numbers of bacteria in Kimchi when they tested it....then said it was from China. I have had many bathroom problems after eating Kimchi and now I know why.

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

In light of recent news about the Korean scientific community... I wonder how many of these bacteria will turn out to be completely made up? Unlike stem cells though, Korean old-man-loogy bacteria are not so exciting that scientists are going to volunteer to try and replicate the work! LOL