Word: hak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other all but universally shared experience is finding a job. That can be a profoundly humbling experience, especially for highly educated Asians. Degrees and credentials that took years to attain suddenly count for little or nothing. Jei Hak Suh, 43, gave up a banking career in South Korea to move with his wife and two young children to Los Angeles in 1981; with his English far from polished, he realized that the banking jobs available to him would not pay enough to support his family. He is now a construction worker...
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...
...York City tax authorities have won court rulings declaring that religion is not the "primary purpose" of the church and that some of its property in the city is thus not exempt from taxation. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is seeking to deport Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han, contending that she falsified papers to gain status as a permanent resident alien, making her husband's residency illegal...
...proceedings against Moon were in the works. Then it indeed developed that an investigation is being conducted that could ultimately result in Moon's deportation, not for his sect's manipulation of thousands of young devotees, but on a technicality involving the resident status of his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. Allegedly, Mrs. Moon was granted permanent resident alien status in the U.S. on the basis of falsified credentials on her application. If the charge is proved, she could be deported. And if Hak Ja Han is deported, Moon would eventually lose the permanent resident status that...
...Republic of Korea the events of April 1960 are popularly known as hak saeng uigo-the Righteous Student Uprising. During those turbulent days, the students of South Korea succeeded in doing what their country's politicians had failed to do: they brought down the entrenched, increasingly corrupt twelve-year-old government of President Syngman Rhee and sent the crusty old leader into exile. Today, even the official Handbook of Korea, published under the Park Chung Hee regime hails the uprising unreservedly. "The students," it declares, "had led the people into a democratic revolution...