Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to give South Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung a fellowship last spring from the prestigious fellows program at Harvard's Center for International Affairs is another chapter in the controversial relationship that Harvard has had with South Korea Most memorably, the University accepted a $1 million dollar contribution from a South Korean government organization which prompted a debate about whether it was proper to take money from the authoritarian regime...
...made a political decision not to include the word 'politics' in the charter for the chair," says Edward W. Wagner, Director of Harvard's Korea Institute, which he says does not benefit in any way from the gift. The chair has yet to be filled, but has supported several temporary appointments including the current junior faculty position of Karl Moscowitz. The endowment also currently funds three courses in Korean economics and history, Wagner says...
South Koreans have also been suspended from participating in the Nieman Foundation for Journalism since 1974 James B. Thomson, director of the Nieman Fellowship program, explains that the decision to "put Korea on hold" was on the advice of Koreans who are alumni of the program...
...Nieman Fellows receive fellowships so that the journalists may go home and practice the craft of journalism with some modicum of freedom. In Korea, it's a special case of government oppression," says Thomson However, there are journalists from similar political climates in the Nieman program--from Poland and China--but Thomson says that in Korea's case. "We like to avoid countries ... that are closing down...
Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...