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Massive anti-government protest erupted Friday in 37 cities and continued early today in areas of Seoul and the cities of Kwangju, Chonju and Masan...
...city of Masan, some 200 miles from Seoul, tear gas drifted into a stadium where the Korean soccer team was playing Egypt's national squad, forcing a halt to the game. When 3,000 spectators shouted in anger, 500 officers entered the stadium and emptied it of fans. In all, nearly 4,000 demonstrators were detained nationwide...
...Masan, 187 miles south of Seoul, a soccer match between South Korea and Egypt was suspended today when the field was blanketed by tear gas fired by police at protesters, Yonhap said...
...antigovernment rallies, major riots erupted in the southern port city of Pusan. More than 3,000 students, joined by older demonstrators, charged through the streets, attacking government buildings. A total of 73 policemen were injured, and scores of demonstrators arrested. The protests spread to the industrial city of Masan. Park responded with a crackdown-ordering virtual martial law in both cities...
...first faced that challenge in 1935. The son of a Confucian scholar, he had just left a Japanese college (Korea was then part of the Japanese empire). He started a tiny rice-cleaning plant in the sleepy southern city of Masan. Noting that all his competitors made deliveries by slow ox carts, Lee bought a truck -and soon left the competition in his dust, he recalls, "howling blue murder...