Quotations of the day

It might be better to do away with "the voice of the people" suggestion box altogether rather than attempt to put a gag on the mouths of citizens. (Netizens, Friday, protesting against the Namwon City government, which plans to require the authors of suggestions to identify themselves. The suggestions were previously made anonymously.)

I hope that those who excavated light from the dark mining pit will be recognized as "heralds of the dawn of the fatherland.¡± (Jo Chang-Won, director of Yusongson Hospital in, Taejon City, Friday, upon opening a Western art exhibition to help pneumoconiosis patients who contracted the disease after years of working in coal mines.)