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“Far from being settled, this bright part of Korea screams defiance. And that blast of light, just a short drive from the demilitarized zone, is its defiant capital.”
“As Paris was for France, Seoul was not simply Korea's largest town. It was Korea. Government was a great vortex summoning men rapidly into it, placing them briefly near the summitry of ambition and then sweeping them out, often ruthless into execution or exile.”
“What Seoul represents to [South] Koreans is above and beyond all our hopes, aspirations, and collective imagination. It is the flagship of our nation.”
“It has already become easier to imagine Seoul with a Kim Il Sung statue than to imagine Pyongyang without one.”
“The twin obsessions of the foreign press corps in Seoul are a) North Korea and b) K-Pop, K-Film, K-Anything-But-Politics.”
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