Word: kang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deters members from attending meetings. In 1975, when Korea University was closed and occupied by soldiers trying to quell demonstrations, the club stayed open by moving its operations to a nearby tearoom. "The only time we stop reading TIME is during middle-term and final examinations," says faculty adviser Kang Sung Hack. Last month members even slogged through severe floods in Seoul in order to get together...
Yuko Toyoda thought she was Japanese. After all, she spoke Japanese and looked like her other elementary school friends. But shortly before she entered the third grade, her parents told her that her real name was Kang Woo Ja and she was actually Korean. Woo Ja, surprised but not dismayed, announced her true identity to her classmates, and some of them promptly taunted her. It was her first encounter with Japan's lingering prejudice against Koreans, but it was not likely to be her last...