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- <text id=90TT1215>
- <title>
- May 14, 1990: World Notes:South Korea
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- SOUTH KOREA
- The End of the Miracle
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In Ulsan 10,000 riot police battled striking shipyard
- workers. In Seoul 2,400 police arrested union militants at the
- headquarters of KBS, the national broadcasting network. Workers
- at several other companies staged brief sympathy strikes. The
- latest outbreak of labor unrest was a stiff test of the
- government's new resolve to deal forcefully with strikers to
- keep South Korea's faltering economy out of trouble.
- </p>
- <p> Officials and workers share a growing fear that the
- country's vaunted economic miracle is ending. Exports are down
- from last year, imports are soaring, and inflation has already
- grown 4.7%. The once weak won has risen 31% against the dollar
- since 1986, while wages have soared 90%. Last week the stock
- market plunged to an 18-month low before rebounding slightly.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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