An 82-year-old man in South Korea had a heart attack after choking on a piece of \u201clive octopus,\u201d or san-nakji, a local delicacy comprised of freshly severed \u2013 and still wriggling \u2013 tentacles. <\/p>\n
Fire station authorities in Gwangju, a city near the country\u2019s southern tip, received a report on Monday morning that a piece of san-nakji had become stuck in a man\u2019s throat, according to a fire station official. <\/p>\n
When first responders arrived on site, the man had a cardiac arrest, and they conducted CPR, the official said. <\/p>\n
The official did not say whether the man survived. <\/p>\n
San-nakji refers to a small octopus that is sliced and served raw, often eaten in South Korea\u2019s coastal areas or seafood markets. <\/p>\n
Though the dish\u2019s name translates to \u201clive octopus,\u201d this is slightly misleading \u2013 the octopus is killed before serving, with its tentacles cut into portions. <\/p>\n
However, it is served immediately after slicing, and is so fresh that the tentacles\u2019 nerves are still active \u2013 causing the octopus to appear \u201clive\u201d as it continues moving on the plate. <\/p>\n
San-nakji is often served with sesame oil, sesame seeds, and sometimes ginger, and has a chewy texture. <\/p>\n
The dish has also previously made headlines, with local media reporting multiple cases over the years of diners dying after choking or asphyxiating on \u201clive octopus.\u201d <\/p>\n
In perhaps the best-known case, dubbed the \u201coctopus murder,\u201d a South Korean man was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for allegedly killing his girlfriend and claiming it was a san-nakji accident \u2013 before he was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2013 for insufficient evidence. <\/p>\n\n
An 82-year-old man in South Korea had a heart attack after choking on a piece of \u201clive octopus,\u201d or san-nakji, a local delicacy comprised of freshly severed \u2013 and still wriggling \u2013 tentacles. Fire station authorities in Gwangju, a city near the country\u2019s southern tip, received a report on Monday morning that a piece of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}