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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15It's Just Not Genteel to Spit
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- For a few months in 1988, the Seoul government urged South
- Koreans to refrain from shouldering their way through crowds,
- spitting in public and even eating dogs. But after the nation
- finished playing host to the summer Olympics, the rigorous
- campaign slacked off, and government officials have noticed
- that many citizens went back to their old antisocial ways. To
- combat the problem, a new month-long crackdown has been
- launched against expectorating, smoking in restricted areas,
- urinating in public and "behaving obnoxiously while
- intoxicated." On the first day of the program, police officials
- announced that exactly 57,294 people had been reprimanded
- nationwide, primarily for spitting and littering.
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