Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the U.S. has been trying to patch up Seoul's quarrels with Tokyo, so that the nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
Rhee was furious. He ordered his emissaries to break off negotiations with Tokyo. Crowds chanting "Down with Japanese Imperialism" shouldered through Seoul's streets. Opposition Democrats, dropping their fight against Rhee's harsh new police law, proclaimed their solidarity with the government against "Japan's unilateral and inhuman plan to send Koreans to Red slavery...
...BORNSTEIN Seoul, Korea...
...Christmas Eve lowering clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
...good measure, they rammed through 22 other bills, ranging from the 1959 budget to a bill that decrees that all mayors of South Korean cities, towns and villages will in the future be appointed by the government, not elected. The press was still free enough for the Seoul newspaper Donga Ilbo to declare: "In Korea, democracy died today...