Word: korea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought, would provide concrete evidence of what he meant by unfair trade practices. A diligent researcher went out and found examples of apples that would cost $5 in Japan if they could be sold there at all, and a Ford Taurus sedan that cost $76,000 in South Korea...
Wait until Seoul, South Korea, and the Summer Games...
First the U.S. hectored Japan, then West Germany, for shipping too many exports to the U.S. Now the Reagan Administration is taking aim at new culprits: a group of fast-growing Asian economies. The "Four Tigers," as South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore are known, posted a $38.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year, up more than 20% from 1986. To narrow ( the gap, U.S. officials have tried, with little success, to persuade the four to strengthen their currencies relative to the U.S. dollar, so that their exports would no longer be such bargains to U.S. consumers...
...Soviet Union confirmed that it will send some 520 athletes to the Seoul Summer Olympics in September. The announcement meant that U.S. and Soviet athletes will meet in Summer Olympic competition for the first time since 1976. Two nations that will not be there, though, are North Korea, which pulled out of the Games after its demand to be host for half the events was denied, and Cuba...
...North Korea's anger over the games was dramatically underscored last week when South Korean officials formally charged their Communist neighbor with blowing up a Korean Air Lines jetliner in November "with the aim of discouraging foreign countries from participating in the Seoul Olympics." KAL Flight 858, with 115 people aboard, vanished off the Burmese coast; wreckage was later found floating in the Andaman...