Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting in a bedraggled movie theater in Pusan, the Assembly last week heard specific charges: the corps had carried some 70,000 "ghost" recruits on its rolls, had bought 8,000 tons of rice for nonexistent troops. Merchants, charged one Assemblyman, had been forced to hand over blank receipts for corps purchases, which "presumably were padded to suit the appetite of all concerned . . . They purchased 4,000 bales of dried fish, of which only 1,000 bales have been located...
...difficult to learn what is going on in Pusan, the South Korean capital. Censorship imposed by Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...
...Pace . . . incidentally did not receive his instructions due to a breakdown in a power unit in Pusan...
Open-Air Classrooms. The teachers had taken Paik's orders literally. Pusan's temporary Union College was meeting in the civil auditorium, studying up to the moment when movies were shown in the afternoon. On one hillside just outside of town, a girls' high school was holding forth in the shadow of a Japanese shrine, primary classes were meeting in a dried-up rivulet, and a boys' school was holding classes in a glen at the foot of the hill...