Word: korean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this era of generational politics, Dukakis is very much a product of the 1950s. He followed a predictable careerist path: Swarthmore College, peacetime service as an Army private in Korea (he studied Korean to break the tedium of barracks life) and Harvard Law School. Even at Swarthmore, recalls Dr. Richard Burtis, a classmate, Dukakis talked about his ambition to be Governor of Massachusetts. Small wonder that as a young lawyer he plunged into Brookline politics with a vengeance, engineering a good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There...
...Cabinet with appointees who are not members of the ruling Democratic Justice Party Last week Chun complied -- sort of. He replaced eight D.J.P.-affiliated Cabinet officials with men who do not belong to the party, though most of them, like Chun himself, are associated with the South Korean military. He also appointed a new Prime Minister, Kim Chung Yul, 69, a former air force general who served as Seoul's Ambassador to Washington from...
...once had a conversation with a Korean girl who verbally assaulted me for "repudiating" my heritage because I had chosen to write for a newspaper, not major in math or science, and not attend Korean student meetings. In a sense she was right, because those students who choose to pursue a more mainstream four years here end up leaving much of their ethnic heritage behind. People who want to become mainstream do not want to appear different to their peers, so they don't pursue ethnic contacts or activities...
...state, including the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, which are scheduled to take place in Seoul. He also wanted to make himself look less partisan. Said Chun: "We are winding up one era in Korea's political history and making preparations for another." It is the first time a South Korean President has resigned his party post since the country became a republic...
...funeral, which included half a dozen speakers and prayers offered by Buddhist and Christian clergymen, began solemnly on Thursday morning inside Yonsei's leafy campus in western Seoul. At the end of the service, pallbearers hoisted the victim's coffin, draped in a South Korean flag, and carried it on their shoulders in a mass procession leading to the city hall...