Word: choi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pillars. South Korea's Prime Minister Choi Kyu Hah, a genial bear of a man, calls the U.S. troops in Korea and Europe "two pillars of policy" that deter Russia from any adventures either eastward or westward. In his view, as long as both pillars stand, Russia must be cautious. If one is removed, Russia may feel free to behave differently...
Little Brain. Korean technical know-how is in demand too; Seoul Architect S.G. Kim, for example, is designing a 4,200-unit apartment house in Tehran for a fee of $1 million. But Americans and Europeans are better at providing technical services, admits Seoul Businessman Chongwhan Choi, and on the whole, he says, he and his compatriots are content "doing jobs that require a lot of muscle power but little brain." To meet the construction deadline for the Jubail harbor, for example, Hyundai Co. is flying in 300 workers a week for an eventual total of 3,300, and Korean...
...trade with Japan, South Korea's 35 million people suffered badly from the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The slackening pace of Japan's economic growth also contributed to a South Korean trade deficit of $2.4 billion in 1974. But largely as a result of what Businessman Choi calls the kiri-komi (swashbuckling assault) on the Middle East, South Korea's trade deficit for the first quarter of 1976 is down to only $100 million, and the prospects look bright for still more improvement: Saudi Arabia alone will need a million foreign workers for its fiveyear, $60 billion...
Some southerners are still wary of the new-found peace. Said Captain Choi Maror, a Dinka tribesman from Bahr El Ghazal province: "We don't trust those northerners yet. But we must live together. We are not brothers, but we can negotiate. We hear that the Russians and the Americans negotiate together, but do they trust each other? Still, it's better than...