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Sensational as it was, the Kim-Choi scandal had to share the headlines with another story. After his swift coup in May 1961, General Park Chung Hee pledged that his 32-man junta would go back to the barracks "when all revolutionary tasks have been accomplished." The strongman, who so far has done an impressive job of ridding South Korea of corruption and creating a measure of economic stability, last week published a draft constitution that will restore civilian rule by next summer. But when Park goes back to the barracks, it will be merely to change into civvies...
...tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles de Gaulle look like a front man. Foremost candidate for the job: Park Chung Hee...
When South Korea's Strongman General Park Chung Hee seized power 15 months ago, he embarked on a harsh, puritanical crusade with the startling goal of "remaking Korean man." Park and his military junta jailed gamblers and black-market "businessmen," executed smugglers; taxi dancers were shunned as "decadent" and some 40,000 bureaucrats were slashed from the government payrolls as "too old, too inefficient, too insubordinate, or too opportunistic." Park shut down brothels and made the shapely hustlers pledge that they would lead a "decent life," and then sent them off to rehabilitation schools. But puritanism had a crippling...
From Pusan in the south to Panmunjom on the war-famed 38th parallel, fireworks lit up the sky and brass bands blared in the plazas of South Korea. It was the first anniversary of General Park Chung Hee's successful army coup, and it marked his junta's success in honoring the pledge it made when it seized power -to give South Korea "a new life...
...year ago. baby-faced Lieut. General Chang Do Yung was the swaggering front man of South Korea's tough new military junta, which had just seized power. Less than two months later, his fellow revolutionary, General Park Chung Hee placed him under house arrest, then clapped him into Seoul's red brick Sodaemun prison. The charges: during the early hours of the takeover. Chang had harbored subversive doubts, had mildly tried to stop the coup. For this, Chang was sentenced to hang, but the penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment...