Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strip the country's richest men of their wealth and reinvest it in public projects. Military officers have replaced the civilian heads of all the state corporations that control South Korea's coal and tungsten mines, produce its power, run the tobacco and salt monopoly. All over Seoul, merchants and restaurateurs nervously cut prices for fear of being accused of profiteering...
...week after their military revolt, South Korea's generals were full of puritanical zeal. Khaki-clad troops with rifles patrolled the streets of Seoul, arresting jaywalkers and hauling prostitutes off to the cells. Caught dancing in a nightclub, 45 hapless young men and women were herded before stern military judges and sentenced to terms of up to a year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark...
...evils of years in the space of a few days. To help Korea's starving peasants, many of whom have been forced to mortgage their crops at as much as 80% interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled into large tents in groups of four and five families. Chang's officers...
...blank spaces or blacked-out splotches that would show that censorship was in effect. The generals and their aides were largely untrained in civil administration, would probably have to turn to the previous civil servants for help. A day after the coup, U.S. economic aid officials in Seoul were back in business, dealing with the same Korean bureaucrats as before...
...Seoul embassy had backed the wrong horse by its abrupt support of the ousted Premier. But in Seoul, General Chang stood before reporters in his combat fatigues to shrug it all off. "There should be no trouble at all as far as U.S. -Korean relations are concerned," said Chang. "Our armed forces in the past have had closer relations with U.S. authorities than any other Korean agency. Therefore I believe the U.S. Government will support us more positively than ever before...