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After more than two years of exile in the U.S., Kim Dae Jung, 60, South Korea's best-known dissident, finally flew home to Seoul last week. Unlike Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, the Philippine opposition leader who was assassinated at Manila airport in 1983 as he returned from exile, Kim survived the homecoming. But his arrival was anything but routine. In a rough-and- tumble airport scene, he and a number of prominent U.S. supporters were jostled, pushed and generally man-handled by South Korean security guards...
...Dae Jung, the self-exiled South Korean opposition leader, called for democracy in his home country yesterday at a Faculty Club luncheon. "With democracy, South Korea will become another West Germany," he proclaimed in front of faculty, friends and members of the press...
Another dissident, South Korean Kim Dae Jung, also had a stint at Harvard, although only for the year. Kim, one of the leading opponents of the authoritarian rule in his homeland, spent the year at the Center for International Affairs, writing and lecturing. Another refugee from politics at Harvard this year was David R. Gergen, a former top Reagan Administration White House aide Gergen quit his post in Washington in December to take up a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics in the spring semester...
...decision to give South Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung a fellowship last spring from the prestigious fellows program at Harvard's Center for International Affairs is another chapter in the controversial relationship that Harvard has had with South Korea Most memorably, the University accepted a $1 million dollar contribution from a South Korean government organization which prompted a debate about whether it was proper to take money from the authoritarian regime...
...Korea there is a joke about Kim Dae Jung. It says that as difficult as it is to save a life, in Kim's case it is difficult to die. Sitting in his small office on the fourth floor of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Kim chuckles as he explains the joke. There have been several serious attempts on his life since he became an opposition leader and advocate of democracy in South Korean politics in the 1960s...