Approved For Release 2006/12/19 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000300030016-4 THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday, September 4, 1980 N ew Leaders in Seoul Exploit : By William Chapman truth and helps them to swallow the” “ His employers were forced to seek - An example is the new application: o have influenced Park’s daughter is ' _. Washington Post Foreign Service ».,. bitter political pills. vhis resignation, he explained, but» of one of Park’s favorite exercises, the’, « under house arrest. SEOUL—Chin Soon Ja, a 35-year. haunting phrase aaiten. mind the were able to soften his punishment by:. saemaul, or “new community” move-. | Even popular music has not 88 ‘old.shopkeeper, is of two minds about og used to describe the acceptance. ‘T@nsferring him to a less important ment. Saemaul is a government rural’ caped. Twenty-four top entertainers the wave of purges, arrests and more “of fascist governments in depression. Position. Throughout the dinner, he“ retreat at which businessmen and gov- _ have been banned from television and ‘subtle forms of repression that have ridden Europe during the 1920s and.. cast wary glances over his shoulder “cpeliet that under Park’s waning rule.as | sense of corruption had come to per.” vade South Korean society; encour. . aged from the top. by greedy business ot men and favor: selling bureaucratse’ . . . t leaders. are. expected to un- radio, their careers in ruins, for what ~ “Park had a soft spot for those around: ° . . : ve . and fell silent when waiters hovered. TRMent cad _ , » A swept into every corner of life since: ee. ae, peop’ accepted shackles on nearby. What would he do with his. %¢T8° Periodic spiritual renewal ses- the newspapers described as “their in- . him,” said one highly placed official, ° _ the: South Korean military estab-. : 7 PP : , P life now? “From now on, I shall keep. S0ns heavily laced with propaganda, gecent personal lives and debased “and did nothing to punish them.” -.-~«» ‘ a ae : their hands from shaking. ee : - In Park’s era, many prominent people _ . lished itself in absolute power last For thousands of citizens; of course, a very low profile, he said. scoffed at those sessions as boring’ singing.” At the top of the list, ironi-. Another explanation is that Chun may: . there has been no choice. Thousands ~ The low profile is the solution of _ and refused to attend. cally, was a pop singer, Sim Su Bong and his military cronies needed a pop!” ‘People are frightened by the arrests “have been designated “hooligans” and: +, ™any- Dissidents who once sought out. *. who had been one of Park’s favorites jar program to justify their own-a and what she describes as “invisible < c “foreign journalists to advance their. No longer. The Ministry of Home and in whose arms Park reportedly pressures” exerted by the govern-’ marched © Of covenant often ‘causes now do not return telephone Affairs has announced that precisely died after being shot by an assassin in:  cial'agreed that in its. early month ment, she says. But uppermost in from top bureaucrats. to lowly tax as-°* Calls. Those who do give interviews», 32,504 social leaders will undergo the a dining hall last October. the military junta was extremely. ti their minds, she thinks, is a desire for sessors, have been purged. Rich peo-- are swarmed over later by investiga-{: Spiritual renewal lectures. No ‘one In none of these cases has the vic-.'. popular. Weeding out.the big wheeler . economic stability after nearly a year’ “nie are being forced to give up their. tors who want to. know what the re-..: doubts that they will go. The chilling. tim been permitted to defend himself - dealers and the small-time pufk®)”. _- . ofturmoil and the advent of asevere. fortunes and businesses required to. .,PoXters sought to find out. _ thought is how the government de-}: (in 9 public hearing. The determina-., called “hooligans” has a certain..ap- recession. Her sales are down 40 per-” fire or demote persons whose views::: Government surveillance and _at- cides that exactly 32,504 people need. tion of guilt is made solely by military peal to the average Korean: who puts: |- cent from a year ago and have been * are unacceptable. - ji -tempts at thought controis were facts their spiritual life and devotion to - “investigators. People confess to “hpo-}».in an honest day’s work and who har « declining for months. “Actually, ordi- . Most respond. with quiet. resigna-t j-7; country revitalized. liganism” or to amassing illicit wdajth “never shared in the spoils of economit - nary people do not care much about’ ~ tion. One prominent-professional man* ‘dent, Park Chung Hee, What is differ- The purges, arrests, and other re to escape punishment worse thani growth. To him, purification “may be wo ,, polities, she adds. What we want is. sat recently in a.Seoul restaurant and > ent now, under Chun! Doo Hwan, is** prisals have extended into every seg- education camp ora surrender 6f‘as- ~~fine idea. © _ 2 better living. -,. described his fate. He had worked... the systematic character of the intru-?* ment of Korean society and have. sets. A hearing process of public 43 al’ “It’s.a good thing for-a lot of people £ The belief that what Koreans want... hard all his life, rising from a poor». sions. Especially in its later years, the ©.-ranged far beyond the. political ene-. for all those singled out’ might ‘ta ky 20° --to see them clear up on the hoodlums: . . “most is a dose. of stability seems toa. family: to: attain national - prominetice’. Park goverriment exhibited a some- °:.mies who once: went in and out: of’: years. The government. has: ho. fine’ and = street gangsters,” said’ Kim tbe widespread. It is a, theme on which’. in his profession. ‘He had been pri. what erratic and bumbling approach Park’s jails with a revolving-door reg for, that, one g ‘of ficialifex- ee the new government. plays: skiltfully. . vately critical ‘of-t “new: government: eto. keeping. « citizens ig line, -which Ha Young | (Gil, a. Saari taxi a ularity, Several of -Park’s own! ‘cronies ‘plained, * : _to: justify its. tactics. For m., but’ by | no means an” enemy of of the‘ many mocked. Nobody mocks the - have fallen victim to Chun's purges The government's: j "state... efficiency the Chun | Wa d ev ce ‘the ) idespread Mpiiitieation” whew! * * cession to power. A. government. of. Approved For Release 2006/12/19 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000300030016-4