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03/05/15. Incheon, South Korea. A Hyundai.
[Route 28]
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Incheon Asian Games 2014
Women’s Hockey
Korea vs Kazakhstan
September 22, 2014
Seonhak Hockey Stadium, Incheon-si
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Korean Culture and Information Service
Korea.net (www.korea.net)
Official Photographer : Jeon Han
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2014 인천 아시아경기대회
여자 하키
한국 VS 카자흐스탄
2014-09-22
선학 하키 경기장, 인천
문화체육관광부
해외문화홍보원
코리아넷
전한
03/05/15. Incheon, South Korea. A Hyundai.
[Route 41]
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Lovely red facade to a restaurant, in South Korea's only official Chinatown.
The restaurant's name would translate literally to "Ten Thousand Numerous Luck" - a better translation would be "Abundant Happiness."
Red is a lucky, good color in Chinese culture, but bad in Korean culture, so in Korean settings, Chinatown is the only place to find bright red like this.
Despite the monoethnic pride of the Korean society, there has always been a small but significant Chinese minority. In the 1880s, many Chinese people arrived in Korea and set up Chinatowns, the largest one here at Incheon. They were mostly driven out to Taiwan and North America in the 1960s under discriminatory policies of the Park Chung-hee military dictatorship, but after a more democratic South Korea established ties with People's Republic of China in 1992, the Chinese have been arriving again in South Korea in significant numbers.
Following the stunning success of the North Korean invasion of South Korea in the summer of 1950, United Nations forces were trapped in the southeast corner of the peninsula in an area known as the Pusan Perimeter. With the bulk of the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) engaged around Pusan, UN Supreme Commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur began advocating for a daring amphibious strike on the peninsula's west coast at Inchon. This he argued would catch the NKPA off guard, while landing UN troops close to the capital at Seoul and placing them in a position to cut the North Korean's supply lines.
Many were initially skeptical of MacArthur's plan as Inchon's harbor possessed a narrow approach channel, strong current, and wildly fluctuating tides. Also, the harbor was surrounded by easily defended seawalls. In presenting his plan, Operation Chromite, MacArthur cited these factors as reasons the NKPA would not anticipate an attack at Inchon. After finally winning approval from Washington, MacArthur selected the US Marines to lead the attack. Ravaged by post-World War II cutbacks, the Marines consolidated all available manpower and reactivated aging equipment to prepare for the landings.