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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle17><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Disposable balsa wood chopsticks
were used very widely in Korean-style restaurants in Korea until several years ago,
when the Chosun Ilbo (if memory serves me correctly) promoted a nationwide campaign
to stamp out their use in favor of reusable metal chopsticks.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A primary reason was, indeed, the fact
that all such wood had to be imported; China was a major supplier, but so was
my home state of Minnesota, believe it or not. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>The mountains of waste their use created was another factor,
of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>An online edition of New
Jersey’s “Garden State EnviroNews” says South Korea in 1995 “banned” the use of
disposable wooden chopsticks in larger restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As for the “uniqueness” of Korea’s
metal chopsticks (and the pride many Koreans take therein), I am quite sure I
recall a Korean studies list discussion on that topic a few years back, and
some credible assertions that metal chopsticks are, in fact, used elsewhere as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I can’t find any record of
that in the list archives, however, so cannot expound any further.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Off to lunch, with knife and fork
today; METAL chopsticks for dinner tonight....<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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am always struck when visiting South Korean universities by the apparent
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their social preferences, that tenured-for-life academics would be unwilling to
sacrifice their cell phones and hair dye in the pursuit of liberating 22
million of their countrymen from the world's most odious regime strikes me as
utterly incomprehensible.”</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Alon Levkowitz [mailto:levko@zahav.net.il]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 17, 2003
3:30 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [KS] A chopsticks
question</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>A chopsticks
question.</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I know that
my question is not ‘high politics’ but I hope that someone in the group could
assist me. Is there a difference between wooden and metal chopsticks? What I
would like to know is- if there is a cultural difference, do for example Korean
use one kind and other nations use a different one and why.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thanks</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Alon</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Alon
Levkowitz<br>
Tel/Fax- 972-3-6133045<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:levko@inter.net.il">levko@inter.net.il</a></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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