Re: "Let's drive out the Yankee murderers" - say the Korean teenage girls

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

>Maury,

> >>When I left Korea  there were Koreans protesting something. ED 
> remembers, They Had Wolmi-Do surrounded and loud speakers on their 
> wigglestick boats. It never stops. When rich Uncle Sam is there someone 
> want a piece of Sam's pie. And do anything to get it. On Yong-Gi-Do a 
> frame of house fell on a laborer you would have thought He was killed 
> till the Doc kicked Him in the but and told Him He was OK. So goes the 
> law suits. They have just refined them some.<<

The demonstrations you are talking about happened when the Rhee government 
wanted the U.S. to pay local taxes on all wages paid Koreans working for 
the U.S.  The U.S. refused and Rhee dominated labor unions went on strike 
and set up picket lines around all U.S. bases.  Rhee also stopped all sales 
of Won to the U.S. military so the U.S. could not pay their Korean 
workers.  U.S. broke this up by paying the workers in U.S. green dollars -- 
which played hell with money black market run by Rhee cronies -- and trying 
to take the greenbacks away from the Korean workers after they were 
paid.  Needless to say, the latter pissed off the workers and damned near 
started an internal revolution so the SK government did a quick about face 
and withdrew all the pickets.  Seen in hindsight, this little incident was 
the beginning of the end of the Rhee government because it resulted in a 
solid organized opposition to Rhee.
Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
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