Question
In June 2024, some workers for this country’s largest company held a failed first-ever strike, four years after that company’s chairman was convicted in a bribery scandal. In February 2024, doctors in this country launched a strike in response to the ruling People Power Party’s plan to increase medical school enrollment quotas by roughly 40%. A mass crowd crush occurred during 2022 Halloween celebrations in this country’s capital. In June 2024, this country restarted cross-border loudspeaker propaganda in retaliation for trash balloons launched by this country’s northern neighbor. For 10 points, name this country home to chaebols like Samsung and Hyundai. ■END■
ANSWER: South Korea [or Republic of Korea or ROK or Taehan-minguk or Han’guk; prompt on Korea; prompt on SK; reject “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” or “DPRK”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 62.38 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 70.29 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 74.20 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 55% | 81.09 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 67.78 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 79.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 50% | 65.57 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wade Rogers (DII) | Fordham A | Maryland B (DII) | 14 | -5 |
| Andrew Leffingwell | UW Sloth | Arizona State A | 19 | -5 |
| Vincent Misterkiewicz | Cornell E | Binghamton B | 26 | 10 |
| Zachary Kant | Emory A | Emory Oxford | 26 | -5 |
| Alan Lee (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | Michigan C | 33 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 36 | 10 |
| Peter Chen | Georgia Tech E | Mississippi State A | 38 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy (UG) | UCSD | UCLA D | 38 | -5 |
| Gavin Bramer | Appalachian State B | VCU | 39 | -5 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | U of Rochester B | 41 | -5 |
| Jacob Moeller (DII) | Miami A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 41 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton (UG) | Michigan D (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | 41 | -5 |
| Aaron Taylor | Missisippi State | Georgia Tech B | 41 | -5 |
| Anthony Nakhoul | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 41 | 10 |
| Brian Zhang | UNC C | Appalachian State A | 41 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu (DII) | UCLA A | UCLA E | 41 | -5 |
| Michael Ge | Cornell D | Cornell A | 42 | 10 |
| Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | Penn State | 44 | -5 |
| Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 44 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Alabama A | 44 | -5 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Virginia | 44 | 10 |
| Annis Choi (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 44 | 10 |
| Leo Tao (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 45 | -5 |
| Sonya Bates | UW Wrath | UBC A | 45 | 10 |
| Asish Madarapu | UNC A | Duke B | 45 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA B | 45 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 45 | -5 |
| Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Rutgers B | 45 | 10 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 45 | -5 |
| Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | NYU B | 47 | -5 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Maryland A (DII) | 49 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT C | 50 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State B | 50 | -5 |
| Joseph Cole | UNC B | Duke A | 50 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech C | Belmont | 51 | -5 |
| Max Morgan | Tennessee B | Clemson B | 52 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | Cornell C | 53 | -5 |
| Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UW Lust | 58 | -5 |
| Antonio LaNave | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 58 | -5 |
| Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | UCLA C | 61 | 10 |
| Brian Chen | Cornell G | ESF | 62 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Georgia Tech B | 62 | 10 |
| Grace Griffiths | Penn State | Cornell F | 63 | 10 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | RIT A | 63 | 10 |
| Erik Fukui | UW Gluttony | Boise State | 63 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 63 | 10 |
| Ethan Maddox | U of Rochester A | Syracuse | 66 | 10 |
| Thomas Hydorn | Furman | Georgia Tech A | 66 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW Pride | UBC B | 67 | 10 |
| Ben Kantsiper | James Madison B | UNC D | 67 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State | Virginia Tech B | 67 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | NC State | 75 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Vanderbilt B | 79 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | Michigan D (UG) | 80 | 10 |
| Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 80 | 10 |
| Venkat Das (DII) | West Virginia A (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 81 | 10 |
| Trey Stephens (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan State A | 85 | 0 |
| Daniel Luebs (DII) | Michigan State B | Ohio State B (DII) | 85 | 10 |
| Knykolas Ross | Southern | South Carolina B | 86 | -5 |
| Spencer Ahn | U of Rochester B | RIT B | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 87 | 10 |
| Dhruv Jain (DII) | USC | Claremont B | 87 | 10 |
| Madelyn Stochaj | RIT C | Binghamton A | 90 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 90 | 10 |
| Jaime Wang | UW Lust | UW Greed | 96 | 10 |
| John Shields | Clemson B | Tennessee B | 96 | 10 |
| Mohamed Musa (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 100 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UW Sloth | 100 | 10 |
| Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Georgia Tech C | 100 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty C | 100 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Binghamton C | 101 | 0 |
| Daniel Chen | Emory Oxford | Emory A | 101 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt A | 101 | 10 |
| John Mcqueen | South Carolina B | Southern | 101 | 10 |
| Robert Merriman | VCU | Appalachian State B | 101 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad (DII) | UCLA E | UCLA A | 101 | 10 |
| Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | UCSD | 101 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Fordham A | 101 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | Missisippi State | 107 | 10 |