Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlightened groups in the country. Charges of corruption flew thick and fast around his Cabinet. In 1960 he was re-elected to a fourth term, but in a flurry of rigged ballots and intimidated (even murdered) opponents. Suddenly student mobs were rampaging out of control through the streets of Seoul, and violence swept the rest of the nation. Rhee knew it was time to step down...
...agreements aimed at reducing ancient economic and ethnic frictions. One protocol provides South Korea with $800 million in Japanese loans, goods and private commercial credits. Another extends full educational, health and welfare benefits to the 570,000 Koreans living in Japan. The Sato government also agreed to return to Seoul a hoard of Korean national treasures (ranging from ceramics to calligraphy) that the Japanese had stolen during the occupation years. In the most controversial agreement of all, covering South Korea's rich offshore fishing grounds, Japan won the right to trawl outside a twelve-mile limit -it had previously...
Japanese and Korean leftists quickly took to the streets in protest. The ugliest riots took place in Seoul, where crowds rampaged through the streets and gathered under the statue of Yong Hwan Min, a Korean national hero who stabbed himself to death in protest against Japanese aggression in 1905. Seoul cops cracked scores of skulls, carted off more than 1,000 demonstrators to jail...
...allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
Park is counting heavily on the Washington visit, and the prestige it will generate, to help pass the treaty. And Lyndon Johnson seems willing to help: he sent Protocol Chief Lloyd Hand in a presidential jet to pick up Park in Seoul. More importantly for the U.S.. Park arrives in Washington far from emptyhanded. In return for continued U.S. aid and Washington's political support, he is prepared to offer up to 30,000 combat-ready Korean troops for service in South Viet...