Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether Chang hangs is up to South Korea's tough ruler. General Park, who reviews all final verdicts of capital punishment. So far, 16 men have been sentenced to death on charges of opposing last year's revolution; seven of them have gone to the scaffold in Seoul's bleak So-daemun prison...
...tough reform regime of General Park Chung Hee. Scarcely six weeks later, accused of obstructing the revolution. General Chang was put under house arrest.* Last week, dressed in the shabby white robe of a common laborer, he was sentenced to the gallows by a five-man military court in Seoul...
...turns reading the opinion. The defendant, they said, was "a master of flattery, inveigled personal advance and promotion by opportunistic guiles, an attitude not worthy of an officer in uniform." Among the specific charges: on the eve of the coup, Chang had ordered two companies of military police outside Seoul to fire on advancing columns of revolutionary troops. He tipped off Premier John Chang to the plot, enabling him to hide out for two days. When informed of the coup by General Park on the telephone. General Chang told him he was drunk, snapped: "Go back home...
They were vastly dissimilar men-a polished Cabinet minister, a tough bodyguard, a wealthy newspaper publisher, a confirmed criminal and a veteran Socialist politician. One chilly day last week all five met the same fate: they mounted a scaffold at Seoul's Sodaemun prison and were hanged by the neck until dead...
Privately, the country's articulate minority-teachers, university students, journalists-complains of repression. But the country as a whole does not share this fear. Reports TIME Correspondent Donald Connery from .Seoul: "The mood at the moment is not necessarily antigovernment. There is a realization that the nation was approaching chaos or Communism before the military coup. Measures taken against corruption are widely approved, as is the crackdown against the black market and at least some of the efforts at improving the economy...