Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading general. She toasted her prey at an outdoor party, then bound herself to him with a sash as a token of eternal love. A moment later, so the story goes, she plunged into a nearby ravine, dragging the general with her to death and fulfilling her vow. In Seoul these days, the kisaeng response to a new and different kind of Japanese invasion is a lot more affectionate and hospitable...
Between 1971 and 1972, the number of Japanese visitors to Korea more than doubled, reaching 190,000; this year Seoul officials expect more than 500,000, about 70% of them in all-male tour groups. Last year Japanese tourism was worth $58 million; in 1973 the figure is expected to reach $120 million. The major reason: many Japanese males have come to believe that the Korean kisaeng are more accomplished (and quite a bit cheaper) than the ladies patrolling the Ginza back home. In recent years, Japanese males with a penchant for lechery almost automatically headed for Taipei...
...paramilitary training, then was sent to Japan to work with Chinese Nationalists who were smuggled onto the mainland to get information. On one mission, nine agents were dropped by parachute at Jehol in Manchuria. They were captured almost immediately, and one broke down under interrogation. He agreed to radio Seoul, requesting that the CIA plane return to pick up one of the agents. Downey and a fellow civilian, Richard Fecteau, went along for the ride in the C-47, even though they did not have to; they were restless and itching for some action in the field...
Immunology has even provided hope to victims of leprosy, one of man's oldest and most dreaded diseases. Last month, Dr. Soo Duk Lim of Seoul National University, Korea, told an international workshop on immunodeficiency diseases at St. Petersburg, Fla., that he has used immunotherapy successfully on 14 patients with lepromatous leprosy, the most severe form of the disease. Lim, who worked closely with Good's Minnesota group, infused the patients with large doses of white cells from unmatched donors weekly for periods of up to 16 weeks, in an attempt to stimulate an immune response against the bacillus responsible...
...visit to Seoul last week, TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel found an Orwellian atmosphere. "When you enter the door to the biggest newspaper, Dong-a Ilbo," he cabled, "you have to watch out that you don't get scraped in the face by the bayonets that two grim-looking paratroopers hold crossed on their M16s. For obvious reasons, it was hard to get much comment from Koreans. But passers-by appeared visibly startled when they saw the big American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved...