<BODY><P>P.S. Reports of the dedication ceremonies for the subway were probably edged off the front page by the news of the same day's attempted assassination of Park Chung-hee during his commemorative speech at the National Theater on Nam-san, in which his wife, Mme. Yuk Yong-su, was fatally shot. The assailant, later convicted and executed, was Mun Se-gwang, a Korean resident in Japan. Mun had arranged a hired sedan from his hotel so as to arrive at the theater in style, and then, armed with his handgun, somehow managed to find his way to an unoccupied (and apparently otherwise unassigned) seat conveniently located on an aisle within reasonably good range of the speaker's podium and VIP seats on stage.</P>
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<P></P><B>From</B>: Keith Pratt <keith.pratt@durham.ac.uk>
<P></P><B>Date</B>: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 11:16 pm
<P></P><B>Subject</B>: [KS] Koreans scoring points
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<P></P>> Dear List, <BR>> <BR>> Please can anybody answer the two following questions for me. They are <BR>> both so factual that I should be able to find the answers for <BR>> myself, but <BR>> (like arguments about the fall of Singapore) whoever I ask seems <BR>> to come <BR>> up with a different answer: <BR>> (1) When was the statue of Yi Sunsin in Sejongro erected, and was <BR>> thereany suggestion of contemporary anti-Japanese feeling in the <BR>> accompanyingspeeches? <BR>> (2) I have heard that the first Seoul subway line was <BR>> dug/built by a Japanese company, but that when it was officially <BR>> opened in <BR>> 1973 (?) the ceremony was arranged for August 15th, Liberation <BR>> Day, as a <BR>> means of saving a bit of Korean face. Is this actually so? <BR>> <BR>> Thanks for any advice, <BR>> <BR>> Keith Pratt <BR>> <BR>> </BODY>