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According to the next speaker, Joonkyu Park, a member of the Korean national assembly during the second republic, the new military government is not as oppressive as the old Rhee government...
...student rioters overturned and burned cars and fought pitched battles with the police, General Ne Win could reflect that similar demonstrations had signaled trouble for other strongmen: Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Adnan Menderes in Turkey. Ne Win gave his army a free hand, and the troops opened fire, killing 16 students and wounding 42. A government spokesman explained that it had been necessary to dynamite the Student Union because "it was a haven for underground leaders, plotting the overthrow of the government," and Ne Win, in a nationwide broadcast, broadly hinted that the student leaders were Communists...
What the hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed 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...
Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...
Abused to Abusive. When iron-fisted ex-Newspaperman Syngman Rhee was deposed from the presidency last year, the newspapers were given more freedom than they had ever enjoyed in the history of the Hermit Kingdom. They promptly ran wild. Themselves abused in the past, they suddenly became outrageously abusive. New publications and agencies proliferated; at one time there were 128 dailies and 311 news agencies, many run by shady operators who never published a single issue but used them as fronts for smuggling operations, black-marketeering or blackmail. Reporters, paid $30 to $40 a month, were ordered to exhume scandals...