Word: woon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lyuh Woon Heung was seven, he watched his father, a yang ban (big landowner), beat a servant to death-a privilege that was legal in Korea until 1908. Said Lyuh later: "I determined then that when I became a man, I would destroy the yang ban class...
...young gunman fired three shots. Two of them found their mark. A police lieutenant rushed out to capture the assassin, grappled with Lyuh's bodyguard instead. The murderer got away. Two hours later, in a Seoul hospital, Death, as it must to all men, came to Lyuh Woon Heung...
...parties are for independence, nationalism, turning the Jap rascals out. Where they differ is on methodology, nationalizing industry, and on local issues. After years of political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional commission for rebuilding Korea, nucleus of party No. 3. He is out of circulation at the moment (it appears there were a couple of fist fights). Lyuh told me he wants to set all good Koreans - Communists included - help the reconstruction...