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118-Meter-High Building Demolished in around 13 Seconds in NW China

A 118-meter-high building was demolished on Sunday morning in Xi'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, in around 13 seconds.

The building, 26 floors in all, fell down northwards as had been planned, with the protecting net set around it standing completely intact.

The operation worked quite well. For one thing the building collapsed in the correct direction and for another thing it fell down at a low height and was fully exploded. Both the noise and trembling of the demolition were under controllable range, said Zhao Fuxing, a demolition expert and professor from the Xi'an Jiaotong University.

A bar is located only seven meters away from the building and it hadn't been affected at all. There wasn't even a piece of stone dropping on the bar. I'm quite satisfied with the operation. It worked well, said Zhao.

It was the highest building demolished by explosion in China, using some 1.4 tons of explosives.

The operators estimated the demolition created around 240,000 square meters of construction waste that will be cleared in 70 days.

The building with a gross floor area of 37,000 square meters in the hi-tech industrial development zone had never been used and its lot will be used for a commercial complex.
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Cuisine of Korea | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Cuisine of Korea


00:01:10 1 Food
00:01:18 1.1 Grains
00:03:43 1.2 Legumes
00:06:35 1.3 Condiments and seasoning
00:07:04 1.4 Gochujang
00:08:48 1.5 Meat
00:09:20 1.5.1 Beef
00:10:36 1.5.2 Chicken
00:11:37 1.5.3 Pork
00:12:26 1.5.4 Fish and seafood
00:14:08 1.6 Vegetables
00:15:08 1.7 Medicinal foods
00:15:44 1.7.1 Dog meat
00:17:44 1.7.2 Ginseng chicken soup (samgyetang)
00:18:27 2 Dishes
00:19:18 2.1 Soups and stews
00:21:31 2.2 Kimchi
00:22:26 2.3 Noodles
00:24:06 2.4 Banchan
00:26:34 2.5 iAnju/i (side dishes accompanying alcoholic beverages)
00:27:24 3 Beverages
00:27:32 3.1 Non-alcoholic beverages
00:29:04 3.2 Alcoholic beverages
00:30:53 4 Sweets
00:33:39 5 Regional and variant cuisines
00:35:10 5.1 Buddhist cuisine
00:36:28 5.2 Vegetarian cuisine
00:37:21 5.3 Ceremonial food
00:38:24 5.4 Street food
00:39:34 6 Etiquette
00:39:43 6.1 Dining
00:42:35 6.2 Drinking
00:43:30 7 History
00:43:38 7.1 Prehistoric
00:44:26 7.2 Three Kingdoms period
00:45:25 7.3 Goryeo period
00:45:53 7.4 Joseon period
00:48:14 7.5 Colonial period to Modern period
00:51:24 8 Royal court cuisine
00:56:14 9 See also
00:56:23 10 Notes
00:56:31 11 Bibliography
00:56:41 12 External links



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Korean cuisine is the customary cooking traditions and practices of the culinary arts of Korea.
Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient agricultural and nomadic traditions in Korea and southern Manchuria, Korean cuisine has evolved through a complex interaction of the natural environment and different cultural trends.Korean cuisine is largely based on rice, vegetables, and meats. Traditional Korean meals are named for the number of side dishes (반찬; banchan) that accompany steam-cooked short-grain rice. Kimchi is served at nearly every meal. Commonly used ingredients include sesame oil, doenjang (fermented bean paste), soy sauce, salt, garlic, ginger, pepper flakes, gochujang (fermented red chili paste) and napa cabbage.
Ingredients and dishes vary by province. Many regional dishes have become national, and dishes that were once regional have proliferated in different variations across the country. Korean royal court cuisine once brought all of the unique regional specialties together for the royal family. Foods are regulated by Korean cultural etiquette.