Word: yun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over Yun...
Park's victory was a defeat not only for Yun but for the old-style politicians and the brand of factionalism that they represented. It was a major display of maturing political organizations as South Korea moves from the traditional Oriental politics of the elite to popular party rule. "Now that the election is over," Park told Koreans in a brief victory statement, "it is time for all of us to lay aside our differences and work together to modernize our country...
...Yun's New Democratic Party will likely cut into Park's rural support in this week's election, but not enough to offset the government's gains in the cities and along the eastern coast, where South Korea's prosperity is most evident. Overall, Park is expected to increase his 1963 margin...
...country echoed with the same names and many of the same words that it heard in the 1963 campaign. The difference is that in 1963 Park was the raw, untested military man who had seized power in 1961, then traded in his khaki for mufti and taken on Yun at the polls. Park won-but only by a mere 156,000 votes of the 11,000,000 cast (out of a population of 27 million). Going into this week's elections, Park has four years of civilian government and a strong record working...
...progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...