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...Seoul last week, South Korea's newly elected National Assembly at last chose a chief of state to replace deposed President Syngman Rhee. By a vote of 208 (out of 259) the Assembly named as President 62-year-old Posun Yun,* a British-educated (Edinburgh University) Presbyterian who, as onetime mayor of-Seoul, acquired something of a Herculean reputation by cleaning up the city's streets...
Under Korea's new constitution, Yun's job will be largely ceremonial, but it does give him the right to nominate the Premier, subject to confirmation by the Assembly's lower house. With more than 2,000,000 unemployed and an empty treasury, South Korea is in a bad way, and President Yun would be well advised, remarked one cynical Seoul politician last week, "to nominate his worst political enemy" for Premier...
...openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped in the act of tossing a box into the flames: "We are afraid the Rhee Liberals might be winning...
...Confucian in outlook, the court looked for its models to the Chinese masters. One of the best, Yi In-mun (1745-1821), combined fantasy and perspective with superb brushwork and a cautious use of color that in many ways surpass his Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean gentlewoman could have witnessed. But to Westerners, it gives an intimate...
Aging (69) General Lung Yun...