Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With "liberation" came a dream of freedom. But then their country was divided by two governments, the Russian in the north and the U.S. in the south; they did not have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with American Imperialism," and "Why only one hop [handful] of rotten foreign corn? Corn is for horses in the United States. If death is inevitable, let us have a bowl of rice...