Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since mid-1969, the U.S. has thinned its forces throughout Asia (see map). In South Korea, the departure of 20,000 G.I.s will force Seoul's troops to patrol the entire 151-mile length of their DMZ for the first time since 1950. In Japan, there will be 12,000 fewer U.S. servicemen. The U.S. Navy plans to vacate its huge Yokosuka base in favor of quarters in Sasebo, and some 50 F-4 Phantom jets will be moved to South Korea...
...being pared back. SOUTH KOREA sent 50,000 troops to Viet Nam, and in the past four years has collected $542 million in U.S. military contracts and supplies. In 1969 alone. South Korea's war income amounted to $200 million. As U.S. Ambassador William J. Porter puts it, Seoul insisted on sharing "the opportunities as well as the risks" of the Viet Nam War. But South Korea's war revenues fell by more than 10% in 1970. In addition, the U.S. is bringing home nearly a third of the 64,000 troops stationed in South Korea. The effect...
...Christianity in 1950. So far, his main achievement has been to unify growing numbers of couples, who travel from the U.S. and all parts of the non-Communist world to take part in the mass nuptials. Reason: they accept Moon's prophecy that Christ will be resurrected in Seoul. Moon has held six mass ceremonies since 1960, involving a grand total of 3,004 men and women. The popularity of these rites is especially unusual in view of the condition imposed by Moon's rather special spiritual code. Last week, as the newlyweds left the ceremony, they were...
...Dieel Kiki, supply many of the compressors needed in auto air-conditioning systems. Lately a growing number of American firms have gone further to set up their own component-manufacturing operations in the lower-wage Asian nations, Signetics Corp., a Corning Glass Works subsidiary, for instance, flies components to Seoul, South Korea, where workers assemble them into integrated circuits that are flown back to the U.S. to be fitted into computers. The operation makes economic sense because Signetics pays the Korean workers only $45 a month v. the $350 or so it would have to pay an employee in Sunnyvale...
...bringing groups of workers from Singapore to its main plant in Braunschweig for training in camera making. Westerners have been impressed by how swiftly unskilled Asians respond to such training. George A. Needham, head of Motorola Korea Ltd., says that it takes only six weeks to teach girls in Seoul to assemble transistors-or two weeks less than the training period for girls hired by Motorola's other semiconductor plant in Phoenix. His explanation: "These girls need the work more and the discipline in Korea is harder. Life is tough here...