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Article: South Korea gears up for World Cup _ without much soccer fever
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 11, 2002
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Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
World Cup banners flapping among cherry blossoms in downtown streets
urge people for "hospitality, cleanness and order." Down below, passengers
crowd subway stations festooned with larger-than-life pictures of
soccer stars.
A stroll through Seoul proves South Korea busy preparing to co-host
this summer's World Cup.
But there is one thing glaringly absent: football fever.
"World Cup? I don't hear many people talking about it. As a matter
of fact, I don't watch soccer on TV as much as I used to," said Yoon
Myong-joon, 51, one of a dozen people sitting in an April sun, leafing
through newspapers or chattering on cell ...