Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that the officers of the second republic had been elected by the people and were pledged to maintain Korean democracy. It is true that they tried to fulfill their pledge. The fault and the tragedy of the second republic was that they tried too hard. The government, in its desire to maintain a state of virtually absolute freedom, abdicated its role of leadership...
According to the next speaker, Joonkyu Park, a member of the Korean national assembly during the second republic, the new military government is not as oppressive as the old Rhee government...
...result of this abdication was the destruction of the second republic. The military coup of May 16, 1960 did not mark the end of Korean democracy, the real end of Korean democratic government was the day that the mob had been allowed to invade the national assembly and had forced it to enact retroactive laws...
...most people, tin is usually something about to be thrown away; but to the men who know it best, tin is romantic, capricious, volatile-and a very profitable commodity. During the Korean war, speculators from London to Singapore made a killing when tin prices soared to $2 a lb.; then short sellers grew rich as Russian dumping knocked the price down to 75?. Gradually the world price inched back to $1.20, which is just about what it costs the industry's many marginal operators to produce tin. But recently the price sank...
...Hunt, set in war-torn Korea, is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. How this leads to the corruption of an innocent Korean boy is only one among many strata of meanings explored in this low-budget film made with high intelligence and high...