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Hi everyone,

I will add the below to book version of article:

Just before I left South Korea, I met a well-traveled man who couldn't wait for Vietnam to reopen. It's his favorite country. When I said South Koreans were so nice yet had the nastiest reputation during the Vietnam War, Jung-min replied, "We Koreans have all been in the military, so we know how to use weapons, but when it’s over, we forget about it. When there’s a war,” he chuckled, “we can be quite brutal.”

KPop promotes this illusion of Korean men as smooth skinned sissies. Boxing and MMA fans know better. The Korean Zombie was a global favorite because he just kept coming. Jung Chan-sung was never cocky, however. Many were teary eyed as a bruised Korean Zombie exited the steel cage for the last time to the Cranberries’ “Zombie.” The Irish, too, certainly know how to fight back.

Linh

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Nov 5Edited

In the 60s, us basketball players from the North Side { Chicago } had to take baseball bats to our B- ball games on the South side, because we had to wait on a corner for the CTA bus to take us back North. Today , it's probably an old Mac 10 , Uzi or a few frags. I have a couple good friends still there but they moved to the Burbs, so I told them to get the hell out of there - way far away. They wrote back said they were thinking of Arizona - I laughed and said - I was talking about the country - get out of the Country - as in Panama or someplace like that. That freaked them out - LOL

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