Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment he left his desk at the Korea Times in Seoul last June, Managing Editor Choi Byung Woo was plagued with troubles. The amiable, book-loving newsman had hardly started his tour of Southeast Asia when British plainclothesmen nabbed him in Malaya for asking searching questions of a British naval officer at the bar in Singapore's Cockpit Hotel. The embarrassed police quickly established that asking questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading...
Civil Libertines. In Seoul, Korea, Vice Minister of Education Kim Sun Ki ordered all high-school teachers to give up their concubines...
...lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor's tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven-member teen-aged Negro gang had pummeled In Ho Oh to death with a blackjack, a lead pipe and hard-toed shoes, while looking for the admission price of a 35? neighborhood...
...strong, the men in baggy white pantaloons and high black horsehair hats, the women in gay skirts and blouses. Minor rural attempts at voter intimidation were reported, but the freedom of the franchise was registered when the opposition Democrats took 14 out of 16 seats in Seoul, and it was clear that a two-party system was beginning to take hold...
...hardening Western line reflected suspicions of new unrest behind the Iron Curtain in general and within the Kremlin hierarchy in particular (see FOREIGN NEWS). The hardening line also reflected sober second thought from London to Seoul about what reducing the power of the free world's deterrent might mean...