Quotations of the day

We are at a juncture where a foreign policy of pacification and accommodation is needed. (Rep. Jeong Jin-Suk of the United Liberal Democrats during National Assembly interpellations Monday, calling for a sweeping reshuffle of the foreign service to deal with the administration of United States president George W. Bush, with which the Seoul government`s foreign policy team has tenuous ties)

The encounter between the South and the North will end up as a fancy-dress ball. (A netizen visiting the Cheong Wa Dae homepage on Monday, calling on the leaders of the two Koreas to proclaim an end to war on the Korean peninsula; otherwise, meetings between South and North Korea will go nowhere)

He should move into a big house. (A Grand National Party (GNP) official on Monday, saying that he had advised GNP president Lee Hoi-Chang to move to a house big enough to allow him to receive many reporters at once; his small dwelling forced him to keep journalists away since last October, though he decided to open his home to the press corps on Tuesday)

I want to live in a city where a stroll through the streets would inspire a beautiful feeling and where one would feel something good is likely to happen. (Prof. Kang Hyuung-Gi of Chungpuk National University in his recently published book, appealing for the creation of an urban culture in which people can relish the beauty of city life)