Capitol Ideas/Seoul Searching
Bethell, Tom
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...Can you imagine as we sit here," Beichman said one day at the Little Angels School in Seoul, where children were dazzlingly practicing Chopin and Bach on Steinways, "that thirty miles to the north is that madman Kim Il Sung...
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...It has 9.5 million people, and this year Korea is growing at a ten-percent rate...
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...From Seoul we re-traced our steps to Tokyo, thence to Beijing (formerly Peking), then south to Manila with a stopover in Hong Kong, and finally to Taipei (capital of the Republic of China on Taiwan) be-fore returning to New York...
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...Ultimately the sources of the Asian resurgence remain a mystery in my view...
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...The capital of (South) Korea, Seoul turned out to be a huge, booming metropolis, where everyone seemed to be working at about double the American pace...
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...SEOUL SEARCHING by Tom Bethell There were about forty of us on the tour of northeast Asia, arranged and paid for by the World Media Association...
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...There was no sign of life to the north, but unexpectedly we could hear the distant sound of music, a gargling mermaid from the distant peaks, -trying to lure unsuspecting South Koreans across the DMZ to the Communist fatherland...
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...It was like being on a well-organized school trip for three weeks, with nothing to worry about and the bus waiting outside the hotel, ready to take us to our next briefing or banquet...
...Korea is a rising nation, and at such moments of destiny countries will take the right steps without necessarily understanding what they are doing or why...
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...We drove by bus to the misleadingly named Demilitarized Zone, which actually is militarized, with one million soldiers facing each other across the four-kilometer strip of heavily mined territory...
...Lee Kie-Hong, came to speak to us, and if he is at all typical he provided dramatic confirmation of this somnambulistic theory of policy-making...
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...But, he added, there's a glorious loophole: a flat 16 percent tax rate on dividend and interest income, which puts Korea in the Hong Kong class...
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...The medical director of the University of Virginia's drug treatment facility en-visaged "the Gestapo in the dormitories...
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