Word: seoul
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Kyung (dubbed Cookie by Galamian) is one of seven musical children of an importer who now lives in Seattle. She started on piano at four, but switched to violin two years later because "I kept going to sleep at the keyboard" She left Seoul for Juilliard at twelve, knowing no English. As composed and lovely as a porcelain doll, she "never felt more comfortable" than in the competition, was calm enough to nap during the two-hour wait for the jury's decision...
...people lined the sandy banks along the Susongchon River north of Pusan. "We should not delay the national task of modernizing Korea," President Chung Hee Park, 49, told them. "If we stop working now, Korea will waste another 20 years catching up." One hundred fifty miles away in Seoul, Old Campaigner and ex-President (1960-62) Posun Yun, 69, stirred another crowd of 250,000 by warning that Park's economic policies were wrecking the country. What is more, Yun charged, Park's government was "sick with corruption, irregularities and dictatorial authoritarianism...
...left few businessmen willing to risk their capital on long-term investments. The urea-fertilizer plants, which will help make South Korea self-sufficient in fertilizer, are Lee's biggest project yet. His favorite enterprise is the Joong-Ang Mass Communications Center, headquartered in a nine-story Seoul office building where Lee works surrounded by teak-paneled walls and a collection of Oriental pottery. Joong-Ang includes a television station, South Korea's most popular radio station and the Joong-Ang Ilbo, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 325,000. "Mass communications," says Lee, "are the best...
Today's CRIMSON Supplement includes articles on Asia by three of this year's Nieman Fellows -- newsmen studying for a year at Harvard. They are Hiranmay Karlekar, of the Hindustan Standard, Calcutta, India; Bank hyun Lim, of the Chongro-ku, Seoul, Korea, and Satoshi Ogawa, of the Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan...
Winning the West. Under President Chung Hee Park's six-year-old government, South Korea is constructing a political and economic base that is the envy of its Asian friends. Factories and homes are sprouting in Seoul (pop. 3,700,000) and other cities. New roads are piercing deep into the harsh hills of the interior. "When we hammered in the spikes for a new railroad recently," said Deputy Prime Minister Key Young Chang last week, "I was reminded of American cowboy movies and the winning of the West...