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  • She let McKinsey know she was up for far-flung assignments, and a few months later, she was in Seoul.†   (source)
  • Then Jakarta, Seoul and Mumbai.†   (source)
  • I remember once in Seoul.†   (source)
  • Then we learned of the latest border skirmishes between Egypt and Israel; Everett Dirksen dying in Illinois; Korean students rioting in Seoul.†   (source)
  • Then, two years later, a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed in Seoul.†   (source)
  • But the nurses don't use their R and R to go to Seoul to pick up hot Korean guys.†   (source)
  • To Shanghai, and Kyoto, and perhaps even Seoul.†   (source)
  • I mean, I been to Benning and Polk and Seoul and Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • As we approached Seoul, suddenly the landscape glowed with millions of lights.†   (source)
  • They know she is sixteen years old, born in Seoul.†   (source)
  • During the summer that President Nixon resigned, I was visiting Seoul.†   (source)
  • In Seoul he did his research and made a mighty effort to fit in, hanging out at bars with new Korean friends and performing karaoke—beforehand on each occasion, he'd go to the bathroom and study the words to songs like "My Way."†   (source)
  • I may as well tell you, if you don't know it already, that as a young lieutenant in the Japanese marines, Nobu had been severely injured in a bombing outside Seoul in 1910, at the time Korea was being annexed to Japan.†   (source)
  • Three years after that, the airline lost another 747 near Sakhalin Island, in Russia, followed by a Boeing 707 that went down over the Andaman Sea in 1987, two more crashes in 1989 in Tripoli and Seoul, and then another in 1994 in Cheju, South Korea.†   (source)
  • …within American jurisdiction, did its report on the Guam crash, it was forced to include an addendum listing all the new Korean Air accidents that had happened just since its investigation began: the Korean Air 747 that crash-landed at Kimpo in Seoul, almost a year to the day after Guam; the jetliner that overran a runway at Korea's Ulsan Airport eight weeks after that; the Korean Air McDonnell Douglas 83 that rammed into an embankment at Pohang Airport the following March; and then, a…†   (source)
  • I suddenly feel like I'm being led to my execution and after the fifteen-hour trip from Seoul would like nothing more than to shower first, just maybe see them tomorrow.†   (source)
  • My citizenship is an accident of birth, my mother delivering me on this end of a long plane ride from Seoul.†   (source)
  • I ask her where she's from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in Seoul, and then offers other facts I might want to hear: she's twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook.†   (source)
  • Her mother lives alone in Seoul.†   (source)
  • He once mentioned something about the "big network" in Korean business, how someone from the rural regions of the country could only get so far in Seoul.†   (source)
  • I want to tell them that what they have here is a man named John Kwang, born in Seoul before the last world war, a boy during the Korean one, his family not mercifully sundered or refugeed but obliterated, the coordinates of his home village twice removed from the maps.†   (source)
  • He tells me this when we walk the lovely empty 4 A.M. streets of Flushing, and in the all-night Korean restaurants full of taxi drivers and dry cleaners, where we share plates of grilled short ribs and heated crocks of spicy intestine stew and lager imported from Seoul.†   (source)
  • In the foyer these men had to struggle to pull off the tight black shoes from their swollen feet, and the sour, ammoniac smell of sweat-sopped wool and cheap leather reached me where I stood overlooking them from the raised living room of our split-level house, that nose-stinging smell of sixteen hours of sleepless cramped flight from Seoul to Anchorage to New York shot so full of their ranks, hopeful of good commerce here in America.†   (source)
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