Word: yonge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a three-judge tribunal of the Seoul District Criminal Court delivered its verdicts. It found 31 of the 34 defendants guilty. Two were sentenced to death: Kyu Myung Chung, 39, a Frankfurt University physicist, and Yong Su Cho, 34, a professor of French, both of whom supplied Pyongyang with military and political information about South Korea. Four others were condemned to life imprisonment, including Composer Yun, and the rest given prison terms from one to 15 years, which they may appeal...
Japanese and Korean leftists quickly took to the streets in protest. The ugliest riots took place in Seoul, where crowds rampaged through the streets and gathered under the statue of Yong Hwan Min, a Korean national hero who stabbed himself to death in protest against Japanese aggression in 1905. Seoul cops cracked scores of skulls, carted off more than 1,000 demonstrators to jail...
...Yong-koo, director of the Press Center of Korea Times. The Press Center is an institute for ethical journalism, maintained by the Korean newspapers. He plans to study international affairs...
...temperature at Melbourne's Koo-yong stadium boiled to 112° last week, but nobody minded except the spectators (too of whom fainted in their seats) and a listless pair of players from sunny Italy. In a mismatch worthy of the Roman Colosseum, Australia's Davis Cup defenders, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, beat back the Italian challengers 5-0, took home the 62-year-old cup for a record tenth time in twelve years...
...President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...