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.
make my gogigyeopbbang medium rare.
gogigyeopbbang king, is my favorite fast food resturant.
okay so i just like typing gogigyeopbbang.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a seame seed bun. Please supersize my gogigyeopbbang special
better than the dirtburgers they've been eating. The problem is they only have three hamburgers for all the NK to share.
Give me a double Gogigyeopbbang with cheese.
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.
Now the obesity Nazis will be after THEIR case, too...
"I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries ..."
I noticed the meat part is suspiciously absent from that description.........
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.
Cat.
It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, kim-chi, cheese, pickles, onions, on a seame seed bun.
I think I'd omit the 'all beef' from that sentence.......and maybe the '2'.......
Kim-chi, is that the rotten cabbage crap that they bury in a pot then dig it up after it smells like *#*!
Careful! The world is inexplicably full of people who adore kim-chi.
"gogigyeopbbang" is Korean for "Soylent Green."
Mark
That's the stuff!
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