Word: korea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEOUL, South Korea--Canadian Ben Johnson was stripped of the gold medal yesterday for his world record-setting 100-meter victory after testing positive for steroids...
Present in abundance, however, will be one group of foreigners who live in Korea -- American military personnel. There are some 60,000 U.S. troops, dependents and employees in Korea, and by week's end plenty of G.I.s had taken advantage of their tour abroad by snapping up more than 20,000 tickets. "It's here and I'm here -- that doesn't happen a lot," explained Sergeant Janice Haynes, a personnel officer stationed in Seoul. "Six years from now you'd look pretty stupid if you told someone you were in Seoul in '88 and didn...
...most of the summer, students who favor unification of North and South Korea and an end to American influence have been clashing with police. However it played on foreign television screens, in Seoul these confrontations had the feel of street theater, not revolution. Students knew just how far they could go, and the riot police knew their roles...
...report that reached the world, stirring fears of more unrest, told of some 50 bombs, one coming within 10 yds. of the torchbearer's path. The Games may tell the world of South Korea's modern miracle, but the Western press seems unable to understand the realities of ritual...
When anonymous troublemakers recently issued vague threats against the Japanese for being too friendly with South Korea, the irony could not have been more resonant: Japan and Korea have been the most serious of enemies for more than a millennium. The last of Japan's invasions on the peninsula ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running...