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Taegu

Third-largest city in South Korea, situated between Seoul and Pusan; population (2002 est) 2,543,800. Textiles are the major industry of the city, but machinery and the metal trades are also significant and there is a large export trade in apples to eastern and southeastern Asia.

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Nearby is the Haeinsa Temple (dating from 802), one of the country's largest monasteries and repository of the Triptaka Koreana, a collection of 80,000 wood blocks on which the Buddhist scriptures are carved. There is also the Tonghwasa temple from the 17th century. The city is a major centre of higher education with five universities, including Kyongbuk National University (1946).
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1) Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion Research Center, (2) Department of Clinical Pathology, School of Medicine, and (3) Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea; (4) Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; (5) Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Graded associations of blood lead and urinary cadmium concentrations ... by Jacobs, David R., Jr. / Environmental Health Perspectives
Institute of High Energy Physics, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyok-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea
On the way to experimental test of the time reversal invariance in ... by Kim, Guinyun / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
This article was written after a lecture visit in 2003 at the generous invitations of Professor Kim Chung-Jae of Kyunpook National University Daegu and Dr Alfred Bong Hwangbo of the Seoul National University of Technology.
Living with the elements: the Korean house; In Korea, the ... by Jones, Peter Blundell / The Architectural Review
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