Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's booming economy, however, owes its greatest debt to its own hardworking, low-paid, literate and highly qualified labor force. Under a series of five-year economic programs initiated by President Chung Hee Park in 1961, Korea has imitated Japan's post-World War II climb to prosperity by deliberately moving from comparatively simple industries into increasingly complex ones. Park built up power plants and a transportation infrastructure, then pushed export industries which took advantage of his country's low cost of labor. Soon electronics boomed, and South Korea today exports phonographs, FM radios, television sets...
...38th parallel to protect an absolute police-state regime. As long as this situation prevails Korean society will be demoralized and the suffering, restless people will be pushed deeper into repression and despair. But their endurance is not unlimited. In order to stay in power, the unpopular Park Chung Hee regime is desperately trying to tie the U.S. down in Korea...
Since 1971, the most significant contacts between North and South Korea have been through Red Cross teams. But last week, in a dramatic reversal of policy, South Korean President Chung Hee Park announced a large forward step. On nationwide TV and radio, he declared that "we shall not object to our admittance into the United Nations with North Korea"-an action he had previously sworn never to take. Park also said that he would open the doors to all nations, including socialist countries-possibly through trade contacts or even diplomatic recognition-if "those countries open their doors likewise...
hotels and flights are jammed, and at least a dozen new hotels are now under construction in Seoul to provide more rooms. The growing emphasis on tourism is backed at high government levels -including President Chung Hee Park...
...slow down," said Si Chung Lo, 37, a short and dapper freighter captain from Hong Kong. "You're inviting them to shoot...