Around 10:30pm last night, in Beomeo-dong, Suseong-gu, of Daegu, a noraebang owner and friend were spending time at the owner’s establishment. “While meeting with my friend, I called out for the hostess.”, the owner commented, “But after she didn’t respond, I went and looked for her, where I found her dead.”
Daegu Police announced that, at that time, the owner had found that parts of her clothing had been removed and confirmed that she was bleeding from the head.
Police are continuing to investigate the matter.
Source: SBS
신증동국여지승람(新增東國輿地勝覽)에 대구10경(大邱十景)의 하나로 기록된 건들바위 옆 절벽이 8일 밤 갑자기 무너지는 사고가 발생했다. 9일 오전 중구청 관계자들이 절벽 일부가 붕괴하면서 인도와 도로 쪽으로 쏟아져 내린 바위 조각들을 살펴보고 있다.Source:Imaeil
Nearly 500 years ago, a local monk wrote a, now famous, book highlighting what he considers to be the 10 most beautiful views in the Daegu area. The Geondeulbawi Cliffs just south of downtown were one of such views that he was awestruck enough to write about. However, the pleasant vista of the rock formation looks a little askew now, as a few nights ago, a large section of the cliffs suddenly crumbled and fell to the sidewalk below. Local government officials are on the scene to assess the collapse and hopefully begin a plan of action for cleanup and restoration.
Language Study Notes
In the passage, they talk a little about the fallen 바위 조각 (rock fragments). Some of you may have seen the word 조각 written elsewhere. Although 조각 is being used as ‘fragment’ or ‘shrapnel’, it is also commonly used for ‘a piece, a bit, a strip, a slice’. You can see this usage of the word, when talking about the amount of wings that come with hot wings, or the amount of cheese sticks, or the amount of slices on a pizza. For example, if you look at a delivery pizza menu and you want to read how many wings come with an order of hot wings, it may say ‘핫윙 10조각’, meaning 10 wings. Or an 10 slice pizza might say ’10조각’. You can also see this with ‘pieces of cake, pie, etc…’
Some sample sentences:
1.
Su-jin bought three slices of pizza
수진이는 피자 세조각을 샀다.
2.
Mark: Would you like another piece? (한 조각 더 먹을래？)
Steve: No thanks．Two slices are enough for me. (됐어요． 전 두 조각이면 충분해요)
Every day, up to 70,000 Daegu citizens are being inconvenienced when passing through Banwoldang Station, these days. The source of angst is over the escalators. Or the lack of them, at the moment. They’ve been turned off by the original contractors of the station who are contractually obligated to maintain the functioning of the station. The issue is over the 100,000,000 Won yearly bill associated to the upkeep of the escalators, which is in dispute with the differing parties. Daegu city government is trying to break the deadlock through intermediaries, but until then, looks like everyone has to hoof the stairs.
Source:NK News
Translated by Hyunseung Ha
Edited by Craig White
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A 17 year old high school student in west Daegu leapt to his death from his 20-story apartment building, last week. His mother told police that he was under a lot of stress with studying in advance of the dreaded Suneung test, later this year. It’s not uncommon to hear occasional stories of student suicide before and after Korea’s daunting equivalent of the SAT.
Source:Joongang Ilbo
According to police, the body of the vice principal of a Daegu elementary school was found 30m below a cliff off of a ridge of Apsan, last week. He had left his house to go climbing on the morning of Aug.22 and his family received a call from him from his cellphone that evening, where he claimed to have fallen off of a cliff and injured his leg, until the signal was lost. The police were called in and endeavored to search for him for 3 days, later finding him dead due from hypothermia.
Source: Daegu Shinmun
Daegu police continue to do raids on establishments that are fronting for prostitution. Police have busted 221 people at 20 businesses throughout Suseong-gu, many of whom were working in mini-room salons (known as ‘Gumi-style noraebangs’, which are cheaper and quicker versions of traditional room salons), restaurants and massage parlors employing housewives and university students for the sex trade. Among the arrested were 92 johns.
Source:Daegu Shinmun
Daegu‘s Urban Railroad Construction Headquarters held a news conference to announce the completion of the planning phase for the construction of the city’s 3rd subway line. After discussing the project with engineers and citizens, it has been decided that the new subway line will be built above ground as a monorail.
This briefing touched upon the current progress, construction plans, vehicles, system plans, surroundings, expected environmental effects and experts’ opinions.
The subway line will span 24 km and have 30 subway stations, from Dongho-dong, Chilgok in the north, winding down through the northwest side of central Daegu with stops near Paldal Bridge and Dalseong Park. It will intersect with Seomun Market Station of Line 2 and continue south to Keimyung University’s Daemyeong Campus. Then it will veer east and intersect with Line 1 at Myeongdeok Station and then stretch further east to Dongdaegu Road, which runs south of Beomeo Station. From here it will head south down to Suseong Lake and angle further east past Dong-A Department Store in Beommul-dong.
Negotiations began last September with Hitachi and Woojin Industrial Systems and still remains undecided as to who will given the lucrative development contract. The subway will be slated to begin operating in 2014.
The operation of the 3rd line will be unmanned and fully automated with state-of-the-art equipment. The windows are going to have mist windows to respect the privacy of apartments when passing by. It will run on rubber tires and a train-skirt will work to muffle noise.
The following is some concept art of what some of the visuals of the train will look like on its route:
Leaving Chilgok
Passing Debec Plaza.
Making the big turn in Suseong-gu, two blocks south of Beomeo at Gumjeong Mansion Intersection.
Passing through Hwanggeum Intersection (stumbling distance from Ariana Brau!)
Finishing up at Suseong Dong-A.
Source:Newswire
Translated by Aesook Shin
Edited by Craig White
A Daegu stepfather has recently confessed to the murder of his adopted son. The 10 year old boy kept playing computer games and the stepfather became enraged that he would not listen to him and his demands for him to do his homework. The stepfather then beat and choked the boy to death. The man, hoping to cover his tracks, tied the boy’s hands together and drove him off on a motorbike to an orchard in Cheongdo, where he then proceeded to burn the body. The partially burned body was later discovered and police were able to identify the remains.
Source: Daegu Shinmun
