Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to be in our Saigon bureau or Nation section to keep busy. Hardly was martial law declared in South Korea last week when Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel was on his way. After getting a scarce seat on the night's last plane, he arrived in Seoul to find a midnight curfew, hotel rooms booked solid, and Korean officials reluctant to talk. Nickel persisted, and he produced this week's story in World...
Tanks rumbled into Seoul last week and took up positions in front of the National Assembly, the capitol, the opposition-party headquarters and newspaper offices. Troops surrounded the house of the editor of Seoul's biggest daily and quickly turned Yonsei University into an armed camp. Then, in a pre-recorded television speech, President Park Chung Hee informed South Koreans that he was proclaiming martial law and dissolving the National Assembly. He also banned all political activities, closed the universities and imposed tight censorship on the press...
...This must be the most virtuous of all possible conventions," declared Chief Predictor Hachiro Asano as 100 crack fortunetellers from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and India assembled in Seoul for a three-day meeting that ended last week. Drinking and sex were explicitly barred because, as Asano explained, "We must remain pure" for important responsibilities-that is, agreeing on answers to ten of the world's weightiest questions...
...Seoul each haruspex plied his specialty. There were no packs of cards to read ("That seems awfully amateurish to us," said Asano) or crystal balls ("That's a fake"). Instead, the astrologers cast horoscopes, the bamboo-stick men studied hoigaku, the science of directions. Asano's specialty is physiognomy or face reading (he is the author of the Japanese bestseller Faces Never Tell a Lie). Consulting recent photographs of President Nixon he found that the space between eyes and eyebrows had grown auspiciously longer; meanwhile, once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however...
...convention's last working afternoon the group assembled at Seoul's Academy House to compare forecasts. "We searched our souls while we worked, softly talked to ourselves and often felt the weight of the world heavily on our shoulders," said Asano. "We hold ourselves collectively responsible for the outcome of all predictions." All 100 agreed unanimously that...