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...cold, windy day in 1951, 25-year-old Kim Ok Soon was fleeing south before an invading Communist army in the countryside east of Seoul. Pausing for rest and a drink of water at a well, she left her young daughter with some fellow refugees. When she returned, the little girl was gone. That same year Kim Sung Soo, 8, was separated from his mother in the wartime chaos around Chonan, 50 miles south of the capital. An aunt left him in an orphanage while she searched for his mother. She did not find her. Huh Hyun Chul, 9, lost...
...have thousands of others on a month-old telethon put on by the Seoul-based Korean Broadcasting System (KBS-TV). Called Searching for Separated Families, the show has reunited some 3,000 South Korean families sundered by the war. Mrs. Kim Ok Soon and her daughter came together last month. Kim Sung Soo and his mother finally found each other a few weeks ago. Huh Hyun Chul learned that his sister is alive and living in Cheju, a resort island off the southern coast. One elderly woman even found her long-lost sister seated in the same row with...
...proposals last year to gloss over the country's actions during World War II (among other things, officials wanted to change school textbooks to describe Japan's 1937 invasion of China as an "advance") caused major protests in Hong Kong, the South Korean capital of Seoul and in Peking. A few weeks later, Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, publicly warned that "Japan will sooner or later, perhaps sooner than later, dominate...
Nakasone arrived in Seoul bearing considerable gifts. Chief among them was a seven-year, $4 billion aid package designed to assuage South Korean complaints that Japan has not been paying its share of the regional defense burden. Nakasone's largesse and charm were effective. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan hailed the visit as a "historic, indeed monumental, milestone in our relations." The two leaders now talk frequently by telephone. Nakasone used a variation on the same theme with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a loose economic grouping composed of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines...
...post-op of reruns, the members of the 4077 will continue indefinitely to act bonkers, save lives and refresh viewers' spirits. Radar will lose and find his Teddy bear and, maybe, lose his virginity. Klinger will show up in that cunning little chiffon number he bought in Seoul. Frank will fritter and whine and cluck like a chicken. B.J. will keep trying to prove he is not the most decent soul south of the 38th parallel. Winchester will open another picnic basket from Mater and savor caviar on a tongue depressor. Father Mulcahy will smile and sigh. Trapper will...