Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that the world likes an Americanism which day by day works for the quiet processes of emerging democracy and business opportunity (see BUSINESS), and stands up for its principles in actions ranging from the Marshall Plan and Korea, through the Truman Doctrine and U.S. intervention in Lebanon...
...Prosperity Sphere, it drafted Koreans for forced labor in Japan. These Koreans and their children, more than 600,000 strong, have been there ever since. Many of them want to go home, and the Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs...
...make sure that no one was going against his will, Japanese Red Cross officials reminded all repatriates they were "free to choose to live in Japan, in South Korea or in North Korea." But in private interviews, only one 16-year-old girl backed out. After years of feeling unwanted in a-strange land, even those not lulled by Sung's song agreed with Bok Young Kyun, father of four, who said: "The children have no future in Japan and neither have...
...Overseas Chinese have tried to stay out of the ideological battles of their homeland, or out of fear or self-interest have played both sides. Many, while insisting they are nonCommunist, are privately proud of how well Red China stood off the white man's armies in Korea. Though appalled by reports of conditions in Red China, they can be heard to say, in the words of a leading Singapore merchant: "For once, Overseas Chinese feel we have a strong mother country to whom we can turn if everything else fails...
SEOUL--Government officials say South Korea is expected to ask the Development Loan Fund for $3,900,000 to help build Seoul's first subway. The Transportation Ministry says total cost of the proposed subway would be 25 million dollars...