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Ever since 1956 when he outraged flinty old Syngman Rhee by getting himself elected Rhee's Vice President, Dr. John M. Chang, 61, has dreamed of some day becoming No. 1 man in South Korea. With Rhee's downfall last April the way was clear, and fortnight ago Seoul's National Assembly by a vote of 117-107 elected Chang to the premiership, the real seat of power under South Korea's new constitution. But last week intelligent, soft-spoken John Chang found his dream turning into a nightmare...
...Seoul last week, South Korea's newly elected National Assembly at last chose a chief of state to replace deposed President Syngman Rhee. By a vote of 208 (out of 259) the Assembly named as President 62-year-old Posun Yun,* a British-educated (Edinburgh University) Presbyterian who, as onetime mayor of-Seoul, acquired something of a Herculean reputation by cleaning up the city's streets...
...first time since South Korea be came a nation, Korean voters found no carbine-toting cops or hulking youth corpsmen around to "supervise" the vote. Of 1,532 candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped...
...politicians live in luxury-foreign cigarettes will burn the fatherland!"), seizing Japanese records from tearooms ("Japanese swords are hidden in these melodies!"), and dragging civil servants out of cars bearing blue, official plates ("Why are you using official transport after office hours? Who do you think you are-Syngman Rhee or somebody?"). The puritanical demonstrators lit big bonfires of cigarettes and records and then swept through Seoul's biggest kisang (geisha) house, the White Cloud, to drive male customers and indignant, silk-gowned "hostesses" into the street. "Only rotten people visit kisang houses!" the students cried...
...Acting President did not want to put undue pressure on Seoul's harassed, discredited 'legislature. But, suggested Huh Chung, there would be "no more arrests of Assemblymen" if they would just go ahead and approve the new constitution. Syngman Rhee's old enemies, the Democrats, darkly passed the word that anyone who opposed the constitutional amendment, with its tighter safeguards for liberty and individual rights, would be considered an "antirevolutionary." All but three of Rhee's Liberals got the point, and finally, by 208 to 3, the National Assembly approved the new law. "Now the second...