Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Seoul stumped Korea's leathery old President Syngman Rhee for a quick look around. He peeked into the tile-roofed monk's residence attached to the temple, and was scandalized to find a woman asleep. It was his wife, explained the monk, and there were four children. "I thought," snapped Rhee, "that Buddhist monks are supposed to be unmarried. How long has this been going on?" The embarrassed man muttered the classic excuse: "All the monks are doing...
Last spring the World University Service sent most of the books collected in a similar PBH drive to students of the University of Seoul and other Korean schools...
...Reds accused Downey and Fecteau of being Central Intelligence agents who were captured when their C-47 was trying to drop supplies to Chinese spy teams they had trained. The official U.S. version of the disappearance of Downey and Fecteau is that they were on a routine flight from Seoul to Tokyo when their plane vanished two years ago. In connection with the charges against Downey and Fecteau, the Chinese Reds announced that since 1951 they had executed 106 special U.S. agents; presumably, all or most of these victims were Chinese...
...Through Seoul's dusty streets, Syngman Rhee hustled from meeting to meeting in his big, blue-black Lincoln. The car was almost the only civilian vehicle moving in South Korea. As the U.S. ban on petroleum supplies took effect (TIME, Nov. 15), buses halted, fishing boats lay idle, politicians bicycled to work. Rice piled up on the farms for lack of trucks, while in town 25,000 factory workers were unemployed and hungry. In Seoul's tearooms the word went round: "The old man is beaten...
...time, indifferent relatives cared for the boy. When the Communists entered Seoul in June 1950, Ronnie was hidden in a heatless shack...