Word: chung
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...kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room in 1973 by the Korean CIA and hustled home, is one of South Korea's most popular politicians. Two years before his kidnaping, he polled 43% of the vote in an election that was obviously rigged to favor then President Park Chung Hee. Hanging him would get rid of a constant nemesis for Chun, an army general who became provisional President last September, nearly a year after Park's assassination. Chun is running for a full term in presidential elections on Feb. 25. Besides that, an execution would mollify Chun...
Later, when he is scouting out a new office for the sales branch in Chung Li, he takes me along on a trip with a master of feng shui, literally, "wind and water." The feng shui master enters the proposed office space, and holds a compass covered with ancient inscriptions against each wall. He checks to see which way the building is facing; where the nearest hills are, through which window the sun shines first. He pauses, as if calculating, and then announces. "This place is good. You will do good business here." The wind and water say so. Michael...
...guarantees South Koreans a "democratic welfare state," complete with civil rights, press freedom and carefully defined powers of the presidency- at least on paper. The referendum was the first test of Chun's popularity since he took power last December, shortly after the assassination of President Park Chung Hee. Strongman Chun, a former general, and his U.S.-educated Prime Minister, Nam Duck Woo, worked hard to ensure a heavy voter turnout. Roving "enlightenment teams" explained details of the new constitution at more than 3,600 local meetings. The President would be limited to a single seven-year term...
...show trial was widely interpreted as an attempt by President Chun Doo Hwan, the general who emerged earlier this year as South Korea's new military strongman, to muzzle any vestiges of political opposition. The popular, soft-spoken Kim had won 46% of the vote against President Park Chung Hee in the country's 1971 presidential election. Afterward, in voluntary exile abroad, he became an active spokesman against Park's authoritarian rule. In 1973 he was kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and dragooned back to Seoul. He remained under house...
...obscure major general before the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, Chun rose to prominence and power in December. As head of the Defense Security Command, he abruptly arrested some 40 senior military officers in connection with Park's death; the round-up amounted to an effective coup. The former paratrooper quickly consolidated his power, reducing President Choi Kyu Hah to a figurehead. Choi finally stepped down on Aug. 16, and a week later General Chun duly resigned his commission, in legalistic conformity with the constitution, which bars military men from the presidency. "He was the only...