Word: korean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retained a major role in foreign policy. In the past month he has turned up all over the globe: chatting with top Soviet defense officials at the Moscow summit; visiting Tokyo, where he urged Japan to share more of the costs of maintaining U.S. bases; promising South Korean leaders last week to beef up U.S. forces to guard against any disruption of the Olympic Games...
...based defense contractor, turned over $6.25 million to a company that was not a usual supplier. The money, which was ostensibly intended to finance the construction of a hotel in Seoul, went into the Hong Kong bank account of a firm controlled by Park Chong Kyu, a former South Korean general and owner of a Seoul night spot called the Safari Club...
...hotel was never built, and Congress and the Korean government are investigating another possibility: that the funds amounted to a payoff to Park, who had important political connections in Seoul. Northrop allegedly paid Park, who died of liver cancer in 1985, to arrange for the Korean government to buy the company's proposed F-20 fighter plane. Had Park succeeded, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, he stood to receive $55 million from Northrop. Congress is looking into whether there was a violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars payoffs to foreign officials...
...student protesters massed at Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...
Every year South Korean demonstrators take to the streets on the anniversary of the 1980 uprising in Kwangju, which was violently crushed by security forces in clashes that left at least 191 dead. Thus it came as no surprise when mobs of student protesters sparred with policemen in Seoul last week and tossed homemade bombs at the U.S. embassy. The demonstrations were fueled by a grisly incident: the ritual suicide of a 24-year-old chemistry student, Cho Sung Man, who stabbed himself in the stomach and jumped off a four-story building to protest the detention of political prisoners...