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Within sight of two tanks hidden discreetly behind the trees, thousands of mourners flocked in front of the capitol in Seoul last week, in a mass wake for South Korea's slain President Park Chung Hee. Day after day, uniformed schoolchildren, silk-clad housewives and bearded village elders disembarked from rickety country buses and surged through a choking cloud of incense past the dozen black-draped altars. There, Buddhist priests murmured their sutras while mourners prostrated themselves in grief. With a shrug, a government worker whispered the prevailing mood of sorrowful but stoical resignation: "Gone is gone...
While we regret the violent murder of President Park Chung Hee of South Korea, we welcome the end of his rule, a dictatorship of the worst stripe marked by ruthless suppression of political opposition and civil rights. The end of Park's reign marks the first real chance for the liberalization of the Korean government since then-General Park seized power in the early...
...Remember, he was tough. Very, very tough. Even the opposition respected him and understood this.'' So said former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Richard Sneider last week about the man who made his poverty-afflicted country a model of economic development. Aloof, authoritarian and disdainful, Park Chung Hee demanded respect, not popularity. And that is what...
...textiles. New superhighways cut through the countryside; high-rise offices and apartments form towering sky lines in Korean cities. Rare among developing societies, South Korea has steered development capital to the countryside, so that rural Koreans live marginally better than their city cousins. In this, at least, Park Chung Hee did not forget the lessons of his childhood...
DIED. Park Chung Hee, 61, since 1961 the autocratic, anti-Communist leader of South Korea; from a gunshot "accidentally" fired by the chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency; in Seoul. (See WORLD...