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...issue of restitution surfaced again in 1965, when Japan and South Korea negotiated a treaty to normalize relations. But the South, under dictator Park Chung Hee, was racing to build its economy. It wanted monetary reparations to finance highways and steel mills?retrieving artifacts wasn't a high priority. Japan returned only 1,326 items, including 852 books and 438 pieces of pottery. Says You Hong June, director of the Yeungnam University Museum in Taegu: "The Koreans should have got up and left. It is an embarrassment that our government allowed this to happen...
...obstinate leadership style. His single-minded pursuit of the presidency is legendary. Kang Won Yong, head of the Peace Forum, an NGO that promotes North-South relations, first met Kim when the future President came to Seoul from Cholla half a century ago. After dictator Park Chung Hee kidnapped and then released the dissident in 1973, Kim met furtively with Kang in a garage. Afraid of wiretaps, Kim used improvised sign language: a big nose meant the Americans, a tap on the shoulder signified epaulets?Korea's generals. Kim said just one thing out loud, recalls Kang. "He told...
...have been necessary when he was leading a band of trusted followers trying to outwit a military regime that wanted him dead. But it isn't helping him to line up support for his policies, says Lim Sung Ho, an expert on legislative politics at Seoul's Kyung Hee University. "Kim has a knack for fighting," says Lim. "But fighting is different from leading." The leadership deficit has been most apparent in dealing with North Korea. With the South Korean economy cratering, the flow of money and aid to a seemingly ungrateful North has irritated many citizens. A recent newspaper...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Korea has had plenty of Presidents who despised the press. After seizing power in 1961, dictator Park Chung Hee banned news stories critical of his government and stationed intelligence agents in newsrooms. His successor Chun Doo Hwan forced media outlets to fire journalists he didn't like. Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page...