Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seoul, Korea...
...morality crusades have been abandoned to spur the economy. The junta eased its ban on prostitution because it could not find enough jobs for the unemployed hustlers. Antigambling laws were rewritten so that the government could back the development of a new. $3.800.000 gambling, hotel and entertainment complex outside Seoul called Walker Hill (named after the late U.S. General Walton Walker, who led U.N. forces during the Korean war). Slated to be dedicated this week, Walker Hill is designed to entice U.S. soldiers to spend their leaves-and their dollars-in Korea rather than in nearby Japan...
...familiar role for South Korea's favorite movie lovers, handsome Choi Moo Ryong, 34, and beautiful Kim Ji Mi, 24, who had co-starred in no fewer than 50 films. But this time the plot was straight improvisation, and strictly off-camera. When the Seoul public prosecutor reviewed their performance, he clapped them into prison on charges of adultery...
...summer. Kim quietly divorced her husband, a director, a month ago. But Choi's wife, a Korean actress, brought charges of adultery. Still fired by the puritan zeal that Korea's new rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly corrupt Babylon of moviemaking, we've always thought, was so far away from...
...under which couples were previously sent to jail if seen dancing in public, has been relaxed, and the government's payroll is back to its pre-coup size of 240,000; it is expected to rise by an additional 10,000 by the end of the year. In Seoul, police last week were herding prostitutes back into their old houses in order to maintain more effective watch over them. Under the new rules, the girls have to obey two regulations: they must deposit a portion of their earnings in savings accounts, and attend weekly vocational classes on such womanly...