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Tourists flock to fish on ice at S. Korea's popular winter festival

STORY: Tourists flock to fish on ice at S. Korea's popular winter festival DATELINE: Jan. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: HWACHEON, South Korea CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of ice fishing 2. various of bare-handed fishing 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Korean): PARK ON-YOU, Tourist 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Korean): LEE KEUN-KYU, Tourist 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Korean): CHOI MOON-SOON, Hwacheon Mayor STORYLINE: Around 130,000 local and foreign tourists flocked to fish on ice and snatch fish with bare hands at one of the most popular South Korean winter festivals that opened on Saturday in Hwacheon county, about 120 km northeast of the capital Seoul. The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival was scheduled to last until Jan. 29 with the theme of "Never freezing warm-heartedness, never melting memories" as visitors were allowed to fish on top of the ice for Sancheoneo, a mountain trout that is known for living in the first-class fresh water. Since 2003, the winter festival had been held every January in the remote mountainous count

Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu (C), flanked by his stablemaster Takasago and his wife, expressing gratitude in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2003, after a messenger from the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) conveyed to him the JSA decision to promote him to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement on Feb. 4, 2010, in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage.

Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu (C), flanked by his stablemaster Takasago and his wife, expressing gratitude in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2003, after a messenger from the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) conveyed to him the JSA decision to promote him to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement on Feb. 4, 2010, in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage. (Kyodo)