The taste of success

It's that time of year again, when people shake persimmon trees in every town across the country in order to get the trees to yield their fruit.

Korean foreign minister Ban Ki-moon has succeeded in getting a number of persimmons to drop. Some of them say "United Nations Secretary-General."

Townsfolk dressed up for the Chuseok holiday think to themselves, "Boy that's going to taste good."

(Hankyoreh Geurimpan, 4 October 2006)