Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was little reason to believe that Rhee would not repeat, or even better, his sweep of previous years. His chief rival, Democratic Party Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky (Shin Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...
With his own party's slate of candidates in good order, Rhee then set out to purge the opposition list of objectionable men. To Home Minister Paik Han Sung he sent a note listing three of the most objectionable: Assembly Chairman P. H. Shinicky, Vice Chairman Cho Bong Am, and former Home Minister Chough Pyung Ok-all members of the Democratic Nationalist Party (DNP). Minister Paik in turn set his remarkably efficient police force to "investigating" Shinicky, Cho and Chough. With election day less than a fortnight away, all three candidates seem to have been effectively eliminated from further...
...Bong Am, who in the 1952 presidential election polled 788,000 votes, was disqualified by the Central Election Committee because of "insufficient popular support," i.e., because he could not get 100 signers to support a registration petition for him. Many of his original petition signers had been persuaded by police to withdraw their names. ¶ Chough Pyung Ok's campaign manager was jailed in Taegu on a charge that Chough had paid his 100 registration-petition signers 600 hwan ($3.33) each for their signatures...
...Communist soldiers with Tommy guns halted a U.N. convoy because it included a truckload of reporters. That was but an incident. The larger fact was that the Communists were insolently creating an atmosphere of victors receiving the vanquished. In the swept-eaved building which used to be the Reai Bong Chang restaurant, the U.N.'s negotiators met under the guns of Communist guards. Unarmed, U.N. negotiators drove under a white flag where armed Communists let them drive...
...shambles. It is now a town of shanties and tents, and stone gates in front of vanished houses. But trade of a sort is reviving in Chinju. Barbers do a rush business, with customers seated in opulent-looking chairs salvaged from the wreckage. A businessman named Lim Moon Bong has scraped together $1,600 to build the town's finest postwar structure, the "Lighthouse Tearoom," with nautical fixtures...