This article was published on page 3 of number 23 of Internazionale Kids, the magazine of Internazionale for girls and boys aged 7 to 13. You can find it on newsstands, or you can subscribe.
The word daebak in Korean it means “incredible!”. This is one of the things we discover on page 18 when we read the article on South Korea, a country halfway between China and Japan. The capital, Seoul, is one of the most technological cities in the world. It has a very fast internet connection and its inhabitants move through the streets full of illuminated signs using telephones and digital kiosks to get information of any kind: on traffic, on air quality or on the nearest place to play soccer.
South Korea is also the homeland of k-pop, a musical genre born in 1992 that in a few years has achieved great success thanks to the choreography of the bands studied in detail.
But if you prefer the Northern Seas sagas to TikTok ballets and synchronized dance moves, on page 30 you can dive off the coast of Norway in search of legendary sea monsters: the krakens. It is said that they looked like a giant octopus and that they could drag an entire galleon to the bottom of the sea, complete with sails, mast and crew. As early as 1250 a Norwegian natural history text spoke of it with amazement because “to most people these creatures might seem incredible”. Daebak!
Internazionale Kids is a monthly for girls and boys. Publish the best of newspapers from around the world for readers aged 7 to 13. In this issue: travel to South Korea (and Australia!), The success of k-pop, gasoline cars have their days numbered, giant squid and other mysterious creatures, and much more.
With the comic by Susanna Mattiangeli and Rita Petruccioli, the drawings of Cristina Portolano, the photos of Catalina Martin-Chico, the ducks of Anna Keen. The cover is by Jinhwa Jang.
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