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...stadiums have been built, the logos designed, and throughout Seoul huge billboards count down the days until the opening of the 1988 Summer Olympics. Everything in South Korea between now and next summer fits into a tight schedule that reaches a climax with the Olympics. President Chun Doo Hwan, a former general, has also been fitting presidential politics into the program. Chun promised to revise the constitution so that when he leaves office in February 1988 -- the first Korean President to do so voluntarily -- his successor would be more democratically chosen...
Berkoff will take a leave of absence from Harvard sometime next year, as he attempts to earn a spot on the United States Olympic Team journeying to Seoul, South Korea, in September...
...Allied division of the Korean peninsula after World War II. Their chief complaint, though, is that Washington supports the dictatorial Chun government. "Without getting rid of the foreign influence of the Americans," one protest leader says, "we cannot restore democracy to Korea." A computer- science major at Seoul National University puts it simply, "We think of America as the most moral government in the world, and yet it backs this immoral Chun government. Why doesn't America support democracy here...
...their families to have received a higher education. They are often attracted by the latest intellectual fashion or the best conspiracy plot. One theory now making the rounds is that the small CIA team that supposedly engineered the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines has arrived in Seoul to topple Chun...
...long if their newfound pacifism proves unproductive. The student movement has gained too much strength, and is too deeply committed to change, to shrink from confrontation if it is felt to be necessary. "We will try this for the first half of the year," says a student leader at Seoul National University. "But we do not know how the government will react to these new tactics. They may be even more brutal, and then things will escalate once again. I can't tell how it will develop." Given South Korea's tradition of student dissent, the protesters seem likely...