Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes were dashed at one point when he overheard his abductors discuss the voracity of sharks as he lay in a ship, his wrists and ankles weighed down for quick immersion. As it turned out, a bruised but very much alive Kim resurfaced near his home in Seoul last week as mysteriously as he had disappeared five days earlier, to tell a tale straight from Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice...
...five men, drugged and whisked to a waiting car. There followed a five-hour, highspeed automobile dash to the southern coast of Japan where Kim was taken to a large cargo ship for the three-day crossing to South Korea. After two more days spent locked up in downtown Seoul, Kim was driven near his home, where his wife and two children lived, and set free...
...subsequent release was even more puzzling. He says that he owes his survival to two things: his fervent praying and the furor his kidnaping raised in the Japanese and American press. Kim plans to accept a fellowship at Harvard this fall, but he may not be allowed to leave Seoul again. He is currently confined to his house...
TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, who visited Seoul last week, reports that people are well dressed and well fed, the shops bursting with goods of every description. In the past twelve years, the annual G.N.P. has soared from $95 to $300 per capita. Even in the poorer sections of the capital, such as the squalid shacks which cling precariously to steep hillsides, electric lights, radios and fans are common. A middle class of small entrepreneurs and professionals has emerged...
...impact of Western technology, has eroded much of the traditional Korean family life, especially in the cities. Custom had compelled all family members to live together in one house, but the young generation today wants to move out. Kim In Ho, a 22-year-old college graduate living in Seoul, proclaims...