Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seoul, some 50,000 Koreans jammed into the city's stadium to help doughty President Syngman Rhee celebrate his 80th birthday. On hand were General Maxwell D. Taylor, slated to become U.S. (and U.N.) supreme commander in the Far East this week, and Rhee's old friend, retired General James A. Van Fleet, who hailed Rhee as "the king of fighters . . . Tiger of Korea." Van Fleet told the Koreans that, as Eighth Army commander, he had submitted three battle plans to his superiors in 1953. Any one of the plans, said he, would have ensured victory...
Died. Kim Sung Soo, 64, onetime (1951-52) Vice President of South Korea, head of the anti-Syngman Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party; of palsy; in Seoul, Korea. Kim resigned as Vice President as a protest against Rhee's declaration of a state of martial law in 1952 and his penchant for jailing National Assembly critics of his government...
...hammer lock, while another Korean punched him in the jaw and a third pinned his arms to his side. As Korean sentries rushed into the room, Taylor calmly suggested that the briefing continue. In an embarrassed five minutes, the lecture was over. Before General Taylor left for Seoul, he ordered his public relations officers to say nothing about the incident. But the news leaked anyway...
...Back in Seoul, Methodist Rhee discovered that some 5,000 Korean Buddhist monks are married. This, he decided, was another example of the sinister influence that the Japanese exerted during their occupation of Korea (some Japanese sects of Buddhism allow monks to marry). Rhee promptly issued a statement of policy, "to restore the old Korean traditions" and the celibate priesthood...
...about 700 of the 1,800 Buddhist monks and nuns in Korea who have stayed single, Rhee's stand opened vistas of power, prestige and the best priestly accommodations instead of the worst. Some 500 of them trudged down Seoul's main street to Rhee's mansion behind a taxicab with a loudspeaker blaring: "We will fight to the last man for the purification of Korean Buddhism, even if we may die from cold and hunger...