Word: tae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chamsil Gymnasium last week to select their nominee for President of South Korea. What a surprise. There was only one candidate, and his acceptance speech had been printed and distributed even before the vote took place. At 2 p.m., the convention cast 7,260 votes for Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo, the handpicked successor of President Chun Doo Hwan and the almost certain winner in the national elections planned for December. By 5 p.m. thousands of demonstrators had poured into the streets of Seoul and 21 other cities to protest the nomination...
...election would not be held for months. But in the authoritarian political system of South Korea, the vote that counts most is that of President Chun Doo Hwan, 56. Last week Chun gave his official blessing to the man who will likely be South Korea's next President: Roh Tae Woo, 54, a retired army general and chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party...
...arrested in the case revealed that police officials had paid hush money to her family. But the shuffle has implications beyond the cover-up. The President's Democratic Justice Party meets next week to pick a candidate to succeed him when he steps down in February. D.J.P. Chairman Roh Tae Woo appears to have Chun's blessing. Insiders say the sacking of Chang and Lho should strengthen Roh's position...
That successor is likely to be Roh Tae Woo, another ex-general and currently chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. A former classmate of the President, Roh commanded the Seoul garrison that was instrumental in bringing Chun to office in the military scramble for power that followed the assassination of President Park Chung...
...Seoul government's position was that the security guards had used "minimum force" to move Kim. In fact, said Government Spokesman Choi Tae Soon, the only person who struck out at anyone in anger was Kim himself, who, according to Choi, tried to hit a security agent with his cane. Kim denied the accusation, charging that "the Korean government and nobody else is to blame for what happened...