Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Goya's spectres remain. The KTA-ROK government has a highly-skewed and, in essence, propagandistic view of what Korean studies should be and how they wish Korea to be understood. Heeding alike the speed of its economic progress and its political, legal and even artistic retrogression, Seoul's zeal is to present modern economic and trade burgeoning as the hallmark of national life while sweeping politics, art, literature, law, history--anything humane--under the academic carpet. Harvard bought most, but not all, of this concept, insisting on adding studies of society. The outcome is a two-headed monster...
...must try hard; for if the gap yawns, Seoul's calculations and hopes will see fulfillment: a mechanistically economic Modern Korea fumigated of all else but sociology; a caricature, in short, truly unworthy of Harvard. The writing is already on the wall. A conscientious previous course covering political, historical, economic and sociological aspects of Modern Korea is not being revived; and a most important project of the Harvard Press in Korean-American relations is being told that it cannot even ask for the slightest subsidy since 'everything has been elaborately orchestrated to avoid politics...
Bright's system sometimes touches the right-wing edge of politics. In 1974, during a Campus Crusade campaign that drew hundreds of thousands in Seoul, Bright praised the anti-Communist South Korean dictatorship for supposedly allowing more religious liberty than the U.S. A year ago, he wrote a pamphlet to urge U.S. Christians to elect "men and women of God" to public office. He also got entangled with Third Century Publishers, which espouses Evangelical Christianity and hard right-wing politics. (It opposed Jimmy Carter because of his liberalism.) Even the tolerant Billy Graham publicly criticized Bright for trying...
...defection was arranged with the help of Julie Moon, 46, operator of the Washington-based U.S.-Asian News Service, which supplies news to publications in the U.S. and Japan. She gained asylum in the U.S. in 1973 after Seoul, irked by her criticism of the Park Chung Hee government, ordered her home. After learning last month that Kim faced punishment in South Korea, she asked Justice Department officials to grant him asylum. He phoned the FBI on Thanksgiving Day and was promptly whisked to a "safe house" outside the capital, while agents guarded his wife and three children at their...
Short and taciturn, Kim was previously known for his unswerving loyalty to the Park regime. While an honor student at Seoul National University in 1960, he led a bloody student uprising that helped bring about the downfall of Dictator Syngman Rhee. A year later he was recruited by the KCIA. Assigned to Washington in 1970, he quickly became the South Korean embassy's expert-in-residence on how to hook a Congressman...