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Free elections have not taken place in South Korea since 1971 when Kim was defeated in the presidential election. The reigning military dictatorship of President Chun Doo Hwan has threatened to either imprison Kim or place him under house arrest upon return...
Gregory Henderson, author and specialist in Korean affairs questioned the success of free elections. He suggested that even if they were to occur, the present electoral procedures would allmost ensure Chun's re-election...
...senior vice president of the International Commercial Bank of China in Taiwan: "What we need from foreign investment is not so much capital as access to technology. But the Japanese are not going to divulge any trade secrets, even to their joint-venture partners." When South Korea's President Chun Doo Hwan visited Tokyo last fall, he brought a shopping list of 47 technologies in industries ranging from textiles to computers. So far, Japanese companies have refused to license any of these techniques to the Koreans...
SOUTH KOREA. Strangely, South Korea has been worried about growing too fast. In 1983 its economy expanded at a 9.5% pace, and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan became concerned that inflation, which was a modest 2.5% that year, might speed up. Officials remembered how a 29% inflation rate in 1980 helped produce a crippling recession...
...ceremony in Seoul. The North Koreans described their shipment as part of Leader Kim II Sung's new policy of promoting friendship, but a Japanese newspaper reported that North Korea had moved three new armored corps into position along the Demilitarized Zone. Said South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan: "North Korea's falsified peace offensives are always accompanied by sinister moves against the South...