Word: korea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woolliest confrontation of the week took place after the final bell sounded in a bantamweight fight. When South Korea's Byun Jong-Il lost a narrow decision, his coach and trainers, along with several Korean boxing officials, poured through the ropes and pummeled New Zealand referee Keith Walker. Byun, for his part, protested the decision by refusing to leave the ring for 67 minutes. Byun and five Korean officials were suspended indefinitely, and President Kim Chong-ha of the Korean Olympic Committee resigned, taking "full responsibility" for the ruckus...
...thought it heard the Suriname anthem playing on the Olympic Victrola. For just a second there, a 4-ft. 11-in. Turk seemed to be lifting a 420-lb. dumbbell, the equivalent of two Olympic committeemen. A buoyant black swimmer with ordinary thighs was receiving the gold medal. South Korea was rioting in a boxing ring. The phones were working. The laundry was ready. And in the race for regal figure, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis both came running...
...Games' sweetest mob scenes occurred when South Korea won its first gold. Incongruous shouts went up at every venue. The press-row televisions were all dialed to Greco-Roman wrestling. At a minor league scoreboard in the press center, where a medal count is kept by hand, a bustle of Koreans hurried over just to watch the tiny gold disk go up for Kim Young-Nam. They sighed...
SEOUL, South Korea--The Soviet Union handed the United States only its second defeat ever in men's Olympic basketball last night, holding off a final American rally, 82-76, in their first matchup since the infamous finish in Munich 16 years...
...latest assault by the tobaccocompanies--including Philip Morris and RJR--hasbeen on formerly closed markets in Japan, Korea,Taiwan and China. In all these countries tobaccoimports were prohibited or severely restricted inrecent years. In Korea, for example, it was acriminal offense to carry an imported pack ofcigarettes...