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...Mansei! Mansei! Mansei...
Facing a crowd of labor negotiators last week, Chung Ju Yung shouted the traditional Korean cheer for long life. Mansei! was an appropriate chant for the farm boy turned industrialist. He had just agreed to a settlement that would spark his $14 billion-a-year Hyundai Group back to life...
...Tokyo and Kyoto, Seoul should look pleasant to Ford. There will be no protest demonstrations; the tough South Korean police will see to that. Instead, Ford could anticipate arches of welcome soaring across the streets, a sea of American and Korean flags, and hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren chanting "Mansei!" ("Long life...
...directly from Peking, he suddenly changed his plans and headed for North Korea-a place no Soviet Premier had ever visited before. Despite the short notice, North Korea's Boss Kim II Sung rolled out the Red carpet for his unexpected guest: frenzied crowds waving Soviet flags roared "Mansei! [May you live 10,000 years]" as Kosygin arrived at Pyongyang airport. Kim, a Peking-lining Stalinist who only a month ago rudely rejected an invitation to Moscow, embraced Aleksei warmly. "We consider amity and unity between our two nations most valuable," he said. Of course: since Russia brusquely decided...
...Japanese soon found Ewha to be a hotbed of resistance. In March 1919, after Korea abortively declared its independence, the girls of Ewha were out in the street shouting "Mansei!" ("Ten thousand years for Korea!") with the best of them. One even became something of a legend. She was 15-year-old Yoo Kwan Soon, who saw her parents murdered and was herself imprisoned for the crime of sewing small Korean flags...