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Deep undercurrents of animosity remain from Japan's 35-year colonial repression of Korea, and Opposition Leader Po Sun Yun is trying to capitalize on it by charging Park with "a sellout policy with too many concessions." Although the treaty does concede to Japan access to rich fishing waters inside the former limit set by Syngman Rhee, it also provides for Japanese payment of $300 million in reparations, $200 million in longterm, low-interest loans-and the promise of vast new markets that may do much to ease South Korea's 10% unemployment. Yet, to many Koreans...
...constitution, the President has almost dictatorial powers, and though Park's Democratic-Republican Party garnered only 34% of the vote in the National Assembly elections, the opposition was so split that the D.R.P. has a whopping, 45-seat parliamentary plurality. Though Park pleaded for national unity, Opposition Leader Yun Po Sun, who barely lost the presidential election, boycotted the Assembly's opening session, and other dissident Assemblymen threatened to investigate the corruption prevalent under Park's military junta...
...Korean standards, the opposition, though badly divided, was remarkably uninhibited. Large crowds rallied to hear Park's chief challenger, ex-President Yun Po Sun, an archaeologist who resigned ten months after Park seized power in 1961, and ex-Premier Huh Chung, a scholarly ex-journalist. They hit out at Park's arbitrary rule and the country's economic plight, openly revived an old charge that he had once flirted with Communism.* Park accused his foes of "McCarthyism...
...foresightedly ordered all polls, Pusan's included, to lay in a supply of candles. Moreover, to prevent the almost customary burning of wooden ballot boxes, Park's regime installed metal boxes. As a result, Park squeaked through by only 156,026 votes-4,702,640 to Yun's 4,546,614, or 43% of the total. Many of General Park's own soldiers apparently voted against...
...slim mandate, hardly designed to encourage continued highhandedness at home during Park's four-year term (although the returns had barely been announced when Park's Central Intelligence Agency rounded up 30 students on charges of plotting against the government). Defeated Opponent Yun went into hiding, but soon emerged and, in an unheard-of gesture in South Korea, sent Winner Park congratulations and flowers. Adding to Park's worries is a National Assembly election scheduled for next month, which his Democratic-Republican Party will be hard pressed to win. Neither is he expected to go overboard...