Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jung, the self-exiled South Korean opposition leader, called for democracy in his home country yesterday at a Faculty Club luncheon. "With democracy, South Korea will become another West Germany," he proclaimed in front of faculty, friends and members of the press...
...dedicated [him] self to his people's aspirations for democracy and human rights" hopes that by returning to his homeland he will "instill hope in South Korea's young" and preserve the struggle for democracy until 1988 when presidential elections are scheduled...
...Says C.C. Chen, senior vice president of the International Commercial Bank of China in Taiwan: "What we need from foreign investment is not so much capital as access to technology. But the Japanese are not going to divulge any trade secrets, even to their joint-venture partners." When South Korea's President Chun Doo Hwan visited Tokyo last fall, he brought a shopping list of 47 technologies in industries ranging from textiles to computers. So far, Japanese companies have refused to license any of these techniques to the Koreans...
...isocyanates that are used to make polyurethane, which, in turn, is used to make paint and varnish. The MIC compound also has been made in the U.S. at Union Carbide's plant in Institute, W. Va., as well as by other companies in West Germany, Japan and South Korea...
...history whispered to him "to avoid the pressures of the moment" and consider the broader perspectives. In the capital, he became a ray of wry wisdom amid the constant drizzle of somber buncombe. He toughed his way into power like the Marine he was in World War II and Korea. He became the ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee. More important, he gathered a grateful flock of admirers, among them scholars, journalists and politicians...