Word: kyu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kindergartens, two demonstration schools. Though a goodly proportion (68% this year) of its graduates go into teaching, many are married to top figures in Korea (among them: Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly; Kim Tai Sun. mayor of Seoul; Admiral Sohn Won II, former Defense Minister; Choi Kyu Nam, Education Minister). Men with Ewha wives still call themselves Pan-kwan (the Henpecked), but the term is now used with pride. "Ewha's struggle," says President Kim, "is more than a mere educational movement. It is a women's movement for the emancipation of women...
...Kyu, 11, loved the candy which the strange Americans who had come to Korea always seemed to carry. With his father, mother and 19-year-old sister, Kim lived in a thatched mud hut at Chosan, a village two miles south of Panmunjom and only a few hundred yards from the road along which candy-laden U.N. convoys were traveling to the U.N.-Communist liaison point. It was very convenient...