Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time since South Korea be came a nation, Korean voters found no carbine-toting cops or hulking youth corpsmen around to "supervise" the vote. Of 1,532 candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped...
...keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...
...brought to an end the fighting in the Korean war, which the Truman
...this gradual process was violently interrupted by the savage explosion of riot and terror (see FOREIGN NEWS) that forced most U.S. missionaries, on the urging of the State Department, to leave their posts. At least two missionaries-Southern Presbyterians John Davis, who flew more than 70 missions in the Korean war as an Air Force major, and Mark Poole, known as "The Flying Doctor'' -worked day and night flying out stranded mission personnel...
...carrier was dropping the paper in a puddle, Editor Allen delivered a fresh copy himself. After putting in a twelve-hour work day, Allen often headed straight for the nearest community banquet, where he managed a few words in the language of the occasion, be it Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English...