Word: wook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From former Home Affairs Minister Paik Sung Wook, a pious Buddhist who until last week ran South Korea's police force, came word of an omen which he felt blessed the republic's cause. The omen: the year 1950 in the Korean calendar is 4283. Reversed, 4283 reads 3824. In Korean 3824 is pronounced "Sampal isa" which also means "No more 38th...
...Japanese, has abated in the last year, but is not yet ended. Korean police cr.n still make the average citizen's life a misery of forms, identification cards, curfews and rigid interrogations. The tricky job of making the police behave is in well-intentioned hands, however. Dr. Sung Wook Paik, the Home Minister, cracks down hard on any of his cops in whose districts the people are not properly maintaining a Buddhist temple. Says Dr. Paik to his police: "Every man must first come to an understanding of spiritual reality. And all of us must order our actions...