Word: woo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strong hint of change came three weeks ago, when the leaders of South Korea and the Soviet Union met for the first time. The summit between Roh Tae Woo and Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated how far both nations have come: trade between Seoul and Moscow is expected to reach $1 billion this year, and diplomatic relations are pending. Despite its ties to the North, the Soviet Union needs investment and trade from Seoul more than it needs to help sustain one of the world's last holdouts against reform...
Yuko Toyoda thought she was Japanese. After all, she spoke Japanese and looked like her other elementary school friends. But shortly before she entered the third grade, her parents told her that her real name was Kang Woo Ja and she was actually Korean. Woo Ja, surprised but not dismayed, announced her true identity to her classmates, and some of them promptly taunted her. It was her first encounter with Japan's lingering prejudice against Koreans, but it was not likely to be her last...
...live comfortably, most Koreans use Japanese aliases and hide their origins. But many are beginning to resent such subterfuges. "We're just like Japanese, so how are we supposed to change?" asks Ha Jung Nam, deputy director of a Korean residents association in Japan. President Roh Tae Woo's scheduled visit to Japan this week ignited simmering anger in Seoul against the treatment of Korean nationals, and he was under pressure to cancel the trip unless the long-standing grievances were resolved...
...spite of the optimism with which the formation of the Democratic Liberal Party was welcomed four months ago, its fortunes are already going downhill. At the national elections in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo received only 36% of the vote, and his party was stymied for two years by an opposition-controlled national assembly. So when two of the three rival parties joined Roh's group to form the D.L.P., which now holds 218 of the 299 parliamentary seats, it looked as if Roh's promised "democratization" program of liberal reforms would be pushed ahead. Opinion polls showed an approval...
...Shamir is trying to form a narrow coalition with the demanding right wing. To woo it, his caretaker government has been raiding the nation's coffers to build new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Christian quarter of Jerusalem. "Our leadership is morally unworthy of leading this country," says Uriel Reichman, dean of the law faculty at Tel Aviv University...