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Taejon, South Korea: see Daejeon Daejeon or Taejon (dī`jôn`), city (1995 pop. 1,272,143), capital of South Chungcheong (Chungchong) prov. ..... Click the link for more information. . TaejonMetropolitan city (pop., 2003 est.: 1,424,844), capital of South Ch'ungch'ong province, southeastern South Korea. It was a poor village until rail connections spurred development in the early 1900s. During the Korean War (1950–53) it was a temporary capital of South Korea, and 70% of the city was destroyed; it has since been rebuilt. The manufacture of cotton textiles, machinery, and chemicals has been developed. Chungnam National University and several other colleges are located there. Taejon a city in W South Korea: market centre of an agricultural region. Pop.: 1 464 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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HK Lim, PhD, is Senior Researcher, Division of Electromagnetic Metrology, Biomagnetism Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Taejon, Korea. Yu is from Taejon, South Korea, a city of more than a million people located about 100 miles south of Seoul. With Song-Hae Bok of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology in Taejon, Choi reported in the June 1999 JOURNAL OF NUTRITION that the tangerine flavonoids naringin and hesperidin offer potent cholesterol-lowering action in animals. |
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