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...been harmful side effects. In the first angry flush after the coup, the ill-paid officers of the junta slapped immense fines on prosperous businessmen and merchants for "illegal profiteering." Many of the fines were later reduced, but the business community remains in deep shock. In one district of Pusan alone, 400 shops have closed. The junta-imposed embargo on virtually all imports remains in force. Coke and U.S. cigarettes are out, and domestic "reconstruction cigarettes" now lead the field. The import restrictions are theoretically necessary to redress South
...House of Representatives seats at issue, well over a two-thirds majority were won by the Democratic Party of former Vice President John M. Chang, whose defeat in a crooked election last March triggered the overthrow of Rhee. The Democrats also made heavy inroads in the Pusan factory districts, where the Socialists, running on a "recognize Red China" program, had high hopes...
Intoxicated by a vision of democracy that equates liberty with license, South Korea's young people last week pushed their nation ever closer to anarchy. In Seoul, where the crime rate has quadrupled since April's revolution, the students of 30 schools were out on strike. In Pusan, 1,000 brawling university students smashed up the offices of the daily Pusan Ilbo to show their displeasure with a story condemning student demonstrations. And in the port city of Mokpo, 500 tax-hating merchants discovered that while they had been sacking the local revenue office, their own shops...
Most impatient of all were the students. At the barricades they had demanded new elections. Now they were irritated to find the same old National Assembly still in session and long-windedly debating constitutional changes. In Pusan, Taegu, and Seoul itself, they staged new demonstrations demanding dissolution of the Assembly. Army Boss Lieut. General Song Yo Chan called out armored cars, tanks and tear gas, but ordered his troops to avoid strong-arm tactics. "The army will stay aloof from politics," declared the government. As for the hated Assembly, it was willing to bring charges against five of its Liberal...
...Song was one of the first officers commissioned in the Korean forces, rose in four years (1946-50) from second lieutenant to brigadier general. As commander of the R.O.K. army's crack Capital Division for most of the Korean war, he fought brilliantly all the way from the Pusan perimeter to the Yalu, earned from U.S. General James Van Fleet the nickname "Tiger." For Koreans his nickname took on new meaning last year when, after being named chief of staff, he set out to eradicate grafting by the R.O.K. army's underpaid officers. Before he was finished...