Word: korean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken great pains to make attending the Olympics a pleasant experience. Seoul's subway system was revamped in anticipation of some 340,000 foreign spectators; it will whisk visitors comfortably from their downtown hotels to event sites. Restaurants and hotels around the capital have been refurbished. About 100,000 Korean volunteers have signed up to serve as guides, translators and stadium workers. As this week's disturbances have painfully illustrated, the government is anxious about security. That concern will be heavily on display at the Games. Uniformed policemen and military counterterrorist squads will be deployed at Olympic sites...
Student-led demonstrators in Seoul battled police in the most widespread protests in years. Waving Korean flags and chanting "Down with dictatorship!," one group beat police outside the huge Shinsegye department store. At the Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral in the heart of the city, protesters built barricades and hurled fire bombs at police, who advanced behind volleys of tear...
...city of Masan, some 200 miles from Seoul, tear gas drifted into a stadium where the Korean soccer team was playing Egypt's national squad, forcing a halt to the game. When 3,000 spectators shouted in anger, 500 officers entered the stadium and emptied it of fans. In all, nearly 4,000 demonstrators were detained nationwide...
...modest and somewhat bookish Roh is one of Chun's oldest associates and few close friends. They graduated together from the Korean Military Academy in 1955, and both served with the South Korean military contingent during the war in Viet Nam. After President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1979, Roh's troops were instrumental in carrying out the military coup that brought Chun to power...
Such industriousness has been a boon for the troubled Times, the conservative newspaper owned by a group of Korean investors affiliated with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Founded in 1982 as an alternative to what the Times has called the "town's 800-pound gorilla," the mighty -- and liberal -- Washington Post, the five-day-a-week paper has not entirely erased its image as a "Moonie" sheet tainted by its owners' politics. Still, the Times has gained a place at some of the capital's most powerful breakfast tables, and is among the few newspapers that...