Pusan: "kinda dead octopus eating"
In addition to their big picture reporting, Variety's Pusan team is on the ground in Korea, sacrificing possibly much more than their palette on their daily film blog:
And appropriate to the Pusan film fest, there's even this one from "Oldboy":
It is actually very delicious, but here's two survival tips of eating the live octopus.Which led me, of course, to YouTube. Could there be any videos of people eating live octopus? Yes. Too many.
1 - Consuming a significant amount of soju beforehand always helps.
2 - Don't swallow too quickly. Make sure you chew it thoroughly as it has been known that the octopus can come back up after it is swallowed, but it is capable of twisting and turning back up, getting stuck in your throat during the process. Or according to P. Frater, it could wriggle into your lungs after it came back up to your throat and effectively killing you in the process. He is adament every year, someone dies from it in Korea.
And appropriate to the Pusan film fest, there's even this one from "Oldboy":
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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