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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: "Korean food for Korean children" |
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"Korean food for Korean children"
In December, the Seoul Metropolitan Council unanimously passed an ordinance that school lunches in Seoul use only Korean food. Industry observers say the nation's total spending on school lunches is about 6 trillion won ($5.8 billion). The price differences between Korean food products and similar Chinese goods, for example, are so great that institutional food companies say it would be difficult or impossible to provide mass low-cost meals with Korean products alone.
by Moon Byung-joo and Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (September 10, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200509/09/200509092238167209900090409041.html |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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But the real news is the headline:
Court blocks rules banning foreign food in schools |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
But the real news is the headline:
Court blocks rules banning foreign food in schools |
Is a headline news?
In December, the Seoul Metropolitan Council unanimously passed an ordinance that school lunches in Seoul use only Korean food. Cases involving those ordinances are also pending at the Supreme Court.
by Moon Byung-joo and Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (September 10, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200509/09/200509092238167209900090409041.html |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
But the real news is the headline:
Court blocks rules banning foreign food in schools |
Is a headline news?
In December, the Seoul Metropolitan Council unanimously passed an ordinance that school lunches in Seoul use only Korean food. Cases involving those ordinances are also pending at the Supreme Court.
by Moon Byung-joo and Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (September 10, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200509/09/200509092238167209900090409041.html |
What I meant was, to some of us with a longer perspective on life in Korea, the fact that one arm of the government (rather than one of Korea's foreign trading partners) is calling another government agency to task for erecting barriers to imports is newsworthy. What the Seoul Metropolitan Council voted to do (bar imported food) isn't the least bit remarkable.
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: . |
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The parents pay a fee each month for the kids lunches - it averages 60,000 ~ 80,000 won per month for their kids to eat lunch at the public schools - mostly the food each day is the same each week....
one day - rice, kimchi, bulgogi and vegies, soup
next day rice, kimchi, chicken and vegies, soup
etc etc etc
occassionally - once every 3 months - the kids will get a hot dog or slice of pizza.....
what exactly are they complaining about - the food is usually Korean and the parents pay for it......
Ask any of your 1st, 2nd, 3rd graders what your favorite food is - most of them answer..... hamburger....... |
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Hans Blix
Joined: 31 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:09 am Post subject: Re: . |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
| Ask any of your 1st, 2nd, 3rd graders what your favorite food is - most of them answer..... hamburger....... |
i ask my elementary kids all the time what their favourite food is - it's a standard coursebook question. occasionally i get 'ice cream', which i suppose is western. otherwise it's alway k food. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
But the real news is the headline:
Court c o c k blocks rules banning foreign food in schools |
Is a headline news?
In December, the Seoul Metropolitan Council unanimously passed an ordinance that school lunches in Seoul use only Korean food. Cases involving those ordinances are also pending at the Supreme Court.
by Moon Byung-joo and Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (September 10, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200509/09/200509092238167209900090409041.html |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:51 am Post subject: Re: . |
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| Hans Blix wrote: |
| Yesterday wrote: |
| Ask any of your 1st, 2nd, 3rd graders what your favorite food is - most of them answer..... hamburger....... |
i ask my elementary kids all the time what their favourite food is - it's a standard coursebook question. occasionally i get 'ice cream', which i suppose is western. otherwise it's alway k food. |
Yeah I mostly find kids answer with a Korean food like kimchi jjigae, although there's a sizable minority that answer spaghetti. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| Korean food sucks! |
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