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...Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, South Korea's authoritarian governments regularly violated human rights in the name of protecting South Korea from the threat of the communist North. Hundreds of students, church leaders and others who opposed military rule died in suspicious circumstances...
...opened negotiations with the union last October and quickly tried to chummy up to its leadership to strike a deal. Zahner, who doesn't speak Korean, would show up early for negotiating sessions so he could smoke with the unionists and try to communicate with hand gestures. Kang In Hee, secretary-general of the union, reciprocated. At one meeting, Zahner asked about the red bandannas worn by all labor activists in Korea. Knowing Zahner's interest in the bandannas, Kang brought an extra one, and presented it to him as a gift. Zahner saw that moment as a breakthrough...
...Plenty of other scenarios could emerge. Chung and other rising political stars like Park Geun Hye, daughter of former autocrat Park Chung Hee might engineer a new party to fight the election. If South Korea's Prince Charming does enter the fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what...
...winter's day in 1968, 31 spies from North Korea sneaked across the demilitarized zone (dmz) and penetrated to within meters of the residence of South Korean President Park Chung Hee. Their mission, in the words of one commando: "Cut off Park's head." The North Koreans were disguised in South Korean army uniforms but their Russian coats and incongruous black sneakers caught the eye of a suspicious South Korean cop and most were apprehended and executed. Park was so enraged he ordered the formation of his own 31-strong hit squad with the parallel mission of assassinating...
...American standards. For the most part, analysts view the firm as a world-class business. Among foreign investors - who own more than 50% of Samsung Electronics' shares - there is some concern that management is still subject to the whims of the Samsung Group's Lee family. Chairman Lee Kun Hee, the founder's son, wields outsize personal influence throughout the Samsung empire. One fear is that Samsung Electronics' profits could be siphoned off to bolster the fortunes of, say, Samsung Life Insurance, one of 24 other companies under the Samsung umbrella. That might not be illegal, but it certainly would...