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Word: taegu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Support. But if, in fact, Korean wives often did take their purchases straight to the side streets of Seoul, Pusan and Taegu, which are lined with black markets whose vendors do not even bother to remove the PX labels from their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The PX Affair | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Progress Report. In Taegu, South Korea, two weeks after he escaped from jail, Murder Suspect Kank Woo Won sent a polite note to the prosecutor: "I wasn't feeling too well because I feared I would be executed, but I am very well now, thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee in the event of his death. While the government and the Democratic Party squabbled over disputed votes, Chang prudently went into "protective" seclusion. Counting of ballots stopped abruptly in Taegu, and Rhee's opponents charged that he was trying to steal the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Revolt at the Polls | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Progress Report. In Taegu, South Korea, two weeks after he escaped from jail, Murder Suspect Kank Woo Won sent a polite note to the prosecutor: "I wasn't feeling too well because I feared I would be executed, but I am very well now, thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Sept. 1952, Robert W. Toth, while serving as sergeant of the guard at a U.S. Air Force bomb dump in Taegu, Korea, was involved in the killing of a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil. But before murder charges were brought against him, Toth was honorably discharged from the Air Force and went to work in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Five months later Civilian Toth was taken into custody by air police to stand court-martial for the murder. Toth's arrest brought on an important and far-reaching struggle between the civil and military systems of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Civil Trials for Civilians | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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