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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Backup Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13833 Folder ID Number: 13833-008 Folder Title: Korean-American Victory '92 9/21/92 [OA 7580] [1] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 23 1 2 TIME OF TRANSMISSION TIME OF RECEIPT WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM PRECEDENCE IMMEDIATE RELEASER: PRIORITY ROUTINE DTG: CLASSIFICATION UNCLASS PAGES 2 MESSAGE NO. FROM V BUNTON 7750 111.5 (NAME) (PHONE NUMBER) (ROOM NO.) MESSAGE DESCRIPTION GORE AND CEOPARDS TO (AGENCY) DELIVER TO DEPT/ROOM NO. PHONE NUMBER AF / CHRISTINA MARTIN REMARKS: DOES ALEOPARD CHANGE ITS STRIPES? HERES THE ANSINER SEE YA! 55 THE WHITE HOUSE 13 SEPTEMBER 1992 // 10 a.m. WASHINGTON MEMO FOR CHRISTINA MARTIN FROM: J. BUNTON JB SUBJECT: AL GORE AND LEOPARDS Curt got nervous. Called me at home. So here. I can't find a direct Gore quote -- what he said exactly about leopard's stripes. The attached shows what the VEEP said Gore said. Perhaps in the text [p.5] we should change: "To quote a certain Senator from Tennessee" to "To paraphrase a certain Senator " You decide. I have to go back and finish packing. Have big fun today. I'll be watching for you on TV. JB PAGE 1 LEVEL 1 - 2 OF 5 STORIES Copyright 1992 Federal Information Sytems Corporation Federal News Service SEPTEMBER 11, 1992, FRIDAY SECTION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING LENGTH: 8716 words HEADLINE: C-SPAN VIEWER CALL IN SHOW VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE MODERATOR: BRIAN LAMB all make mistakes. Bill Clinton confuses the Patriot missile with the cruise missile. What if I had done that? Can you imagine that? Al Gore, on the floor of the United States Senate, says a leopard has stripes. Come on. Can you imagine if I had said that? Give me a break. There's a double standard out there, and the American people 1 ... negotiated format is, we'll be there and debate and look forward to it. MR. LAMB: I just want you to know that if you want Senator Gore to come here any day, the two of you can sit here for as long as you can talk, we'll take PAGE 1 The Associated Press, September 11, 1992 He cited as an example Clinton's gaffe on Tuesday in which he referred to the Patriot missile as an ... mean, it would have been on every newscast. ... Now, basically, you won't hear much about it because it was Bill Clinton." L And Gore in a Senate speech said "a leopard has stripes, = said Quayle. "There's a double standard out there and the American people know it," L1 charged Quayle. LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS·NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable the pessy. 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California 91765 FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL SHEET Date 9/18/92 Fax No. Transmitted To 202 456-6218 Jaykim Fax No. (714) 396-6183 Total No. of Pages 8 Including Cover Sheet To: JEANNIE BUNTING Ph.# Company/Agency: POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICE - WHITE HOUSE From: VALERIE BROOKS Comments: If you have experienced any problems with this transmittal, Please call US at (714) 396-6173 SEP 21 '92 10:46 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 P.2/8 CONGRESS BIOGRAPHY Jay Kim, born In Korea, came to the United States as a young man and settled In the West End of San Bernardino County. He holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Southern California, and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University Los Angeles. Jay was elected as the Republican nominee for the newly formed 41st Congressional District In the June primary. The 41st is unique spenning three counties: San Barnardino, Orange and Los Angeles. He was elected to the City Council of Diamond Bar In 1990, and was subsequently chosen to serve as Mayor in 1991. Jay Kim Is the President and Founder of Jaykim Engineers, Inc. Under his leadership, the company has grown to a position whereby It is now recognized as one of the top 500 Engineering Design Firms in the United States. The company now employs some 130 professional, technical and support personnel among nine offices in the western states. He remains Intimately Involved In the company's projects covering a wide range of civil, environmental and transportation projects. Jay has received numerous awards In recognition of his professional and community contributions Including: Award for National Excellence, Contractor of the Year Award, Outstanding Achievement In Business and Community Development Award, Engineer of and many others. the Year Award, Caballero de Distinction Award, Engineer Business of the Year Award, Jay Kim has been married to his wile, June, for 31 years, and they have three children: The Kims are Methodists. Richard, a Neurosurgeon, Kathy, an Interior Designer, and Eugene, a Junior at Cal Poly. Paid kg are) Authorized by: day High for Congress 1300 South Valley Visits Drive Claimative HITUS SEP 21 '92 10:47 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 P.3/8 For CONGRESS 41st Congressional District ISSUES MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING CONGRESS: There are many issues that demand resolution, but the over-riding issue is the reform of the Congress. The check bouncing, the cocaine sales in the Congressional Post Office and the "inside control" of the House top staff members are all symptoms of a bankrupt leadership that can no longer be tolerated. TERM LIMITS FOR CONGRESS: It is the one way to end the cycle of incumbency and ultimately end the seniority system that rules Congress. No member should serve more than six to eight years maximum. That is why I am one of the Statewide Ballot Signators for the Congressional Term Limit Initiative that will appear on the November Ballot. ECONOMIC PLATFORM: No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Our tax laws inhibit business expansion and therefore cost our country jobs. We must lower long-term capital gains, and put sensible tax credits in place for research and development of new products. We have to work to build our economic base instead of taxing it out of existence. Then too, is the costly problem of over-regulation. It is imperative that we find effective ways to markets. lower the cost of products so we can be more competitive in world THE PEACE DIVIDEND: We should use the majority of the funds to reduce the deficit, and the remaining for domestic renewal of our infrastructure. Many talented people will be displaced, and these talents can be transferred to safer air traffic, light rail, etc. QUOTAS FOR HIRING: Quotas would cause reverse discrimination and any sort of discrimination is unacceptable. People must be hired on the basis of merit and ability. UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS: Undocumented aliens are costing taxpayers in LA County alone, $700 million. I support Congressman Dreier's bill that would address this issue by making it a federal felony to counterfeit an alien registration card, and by adding to the Border Patrol generating the funding through forfeitures of cash and property arrests. through the relative increases in drug trafficking EDUCATION: Education is the key to change. This is a technical age that will require a skilled work force. Education funds should be used to build excellent trade schools where young people can learn to use modern technology. We must also need to address the issue of accountability for all schools. 1300 South Valley Vista Drive Diamond Bar CA 91765 el.(714)396-6173 ax.(714)396-6183 Paid for and authorized by Jay Kim for Congress, FEC# C00260133. SEP 21 '92 10:48 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 P.4/8 San Gabriel Valley Tribune Kim for Congress May 28, 1992 "We can't let career politi- es. That means the city gets cians destroy our country any the best for its buck and hires longer." only 20 full-time employees in- Jay Kim says those words stead of the 50 normally associ- with emotion. ated with a city that size. The key words are "career He'd use that-concept at the politicians" and "destroy." In federal level. Private Industry recent years, in the minds of would be contracted to do Jobs, the people. they've become eliminating part of the huge synonymous. federal bureaucracy which has But simply mouthing words bled taxpayers for generations. won't bring about the critical To help boost the economy reforms which must take place and reduce the costly welfare in Washington. That will take load, Kim proposes more tax top-notch people with the cre- incentives for business and dentials, desire and dedication cutting the capital gains tax. to get the job done. Those moves would be used to Jay Kim is one of those, He's entice business to hire and running for Congress in the train the unemployed, spur- Republican primary in the ring business and making still newly formed 41st District. more jobs available. The far-reaching district runs He sees the need for tax from Diamond Bar and Row- credits to allow more research land Heights to the Chino Hills and development by industry, to the Brea-Placentia area. regaining for America its Kim is representative of the world leadership in technology new breed of lawmaker the dis- lost in recent years. trict - indeed, the country - He recognizes taxpayers needs. need more spendable income, Not only is Kim ready with a and would boost the dependent definite plan of action to help allowance on federal Income turn around the Congress and tax to $6,000; another spur the country, but he has no in- to the economy. tention of making Washington Kim also recognizes there his permanent home. has to be a better balance be- Kim says if he can't get the tween environmental regula- job done in six years. he tions and the ability of busi- doesn't deserve to stay longer. ness and Industry to meet In fact. he favors term limits them in today's adverse scono- for Congress. my. With what Kim is pledged to What he proposes, Kim says, accomplish, It'll be a busy but is a revolution of thinking and exciting six years. And as am- positive ways to get things bitious as his plan seems, it's done. not folly to believe he can make a difference. That's be- Kim is the best candidate in cause the highly successful the field of six seeking that businessman would be among post. Among his foes is one at least 150 freshman lawmak- who doesn't live in the district: ers taking seats after the No. another who is an attorney, vember election. Kim is cer- part of the Washington estab- tain he can work well with lishment in recent years. and other reformists to get things who took up residence in the done. We think he's right. district after its new lines were Kim's not only experienced drawn: and still another who's in the private sector but as a a long-time politician. running government contractor and as for office 18 times in the last 20 mayor of Diamond Bar. years. That city has proved the ef- We believe Jay Kim is the fectiveness and economy of cit. man for Republican voters in les contracting out for servic- the 60th Assembly District. San Gabriel Valley Tribune Thursday, June 4, 1992 Primary propels Kim toward election history By Steven Tamaya Political Affairs Writer called out campaign manager For updated election results see page B2 of today's Tribane. Jerry Silva. Diamond Bar Mayor Jay Kim, Additional local election coverage on A2, AS, Bf, and B3. Kim, too nervous to wait for who could barely raise his arms the results with a large crowd, in exultation early Wednesday said he was doing his own tabu- morning, was not too exhausted R national spotlight OR Kim, es- night Wednesday, It became lations. "I wanted to sit alone to realize the meaning of his pecially in the aftermath of the clear the last race In the Valley and project numbers," be said to stunning victory In the 41st Con- Los Angeles riots that included left to be decided was a Bader- a visitor shortly after 1 a.m. "It's gressional District Republican burning and looting of Korean- Kim duel. going to be awful close." SEP 21 '92 10:48 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 primary. owned businesses. With the 41st District divided By 1:30 a.m., Silva Was telling "This is the biggest upset The businessman-suayor also aniong Los Angeles, Orange and reporters "Victory is in sight." probably in all of California," shook up the political arena by San Bernardino countles, the Kim finally emerged at 2 n.m., Kim said with just a trace of narrowly defeating former As- Kim campaign tracked the three greeted by a bottle of champagne exaggeration at his Diamond Bar semblyman Charles Bader, who separate vote tallies on a huge thrust into his hand. campaign headquarters. had been favored to win the Re- wall-sized chart as the count- "Open this?" a weary Kim It was an upset which could publican primary with superior down continued. asked as he grasped the bottle. prove to have historic propor- name recognition developed by Bader walted for election re- He opened his victory speech by tions. Because the district bas a previous campaigns in the area turns at the Ontario Airport Hil- exclaiming. "My God, that was decisive majority of Republican during a 22-year political career. ton botel with other Republican close, wasn't it." voters, Kim is all but certain in "Everybody told me Bader was candidates from San Bernardino Kim spent the next two hours November to become the first going to win, that it was a sure County. In Diamond Bar, Kim posing for photographers and do- Korean-American ever elected to thing." Kim sald. "I think he kept his vigil alone In a separate Ing interviews with Asian news- Jay Kim Congress. relied on name recognition too office while campaign workers paper and television reporters. Kim is favored to defeat Demo- much." and supporters cheered each up- "This has to be one of the big- nally wept to bed. Bader, cratic nominee Bob Baker of An- A third GOP candidate, con- date showing him with a slim gest upsets," he kept telling a reached at his home in Pomona aheim and Peace and Freedom servative Yorba Linda attorney lead over Bader. reporter. about 9 a.m., said he would call candidate Mike Noonan of Clare- James Lacy. registered a strong "At 12:45 (a.m.), we're up 536 The winning margin was few- Kim later in the day to congratu- mont. Such a victory could shine showing as well. But after mid- votes. Come on, let's hear It," er than 600 votes when Kim fl- late him. SEP 21 '92 10:49 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 P.6/8 LOS ANGELES TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 17. 1992 When reapportionment cre- Alan Heslop, an expert on ated the 41st Congressional political demographics at the District, Kim endorsed former Rose Institute of State and Republican Assemblyman Local Government at Clare- Charles Bader of Pomona. But mont McKenna College, said when Kim found out that Bader Kim's victory has national sig- lived just outside the district nificance. and that the other leading con- "The Republican Party has tender, James V. Lacy. had just been appealing to Asians rath- moved into the district, Kim or fruitlessly." he said, but Republicans can point to Kim decided to get into the race as evidence that Asians can Kim's platform includes the standard conservative pre- win for the party. Kim would be the only Asian-American scription for prosperity: reduce Republican in Congress. taxes and regulations on busi- His surprise victory has also nesses to create jobs. LOU MACK / Los Angelex Times elated local Korean-American Bader, who had spent most Jay C. Kim is likely to become the first Korean-American to be leaders. of the last 20 years in public elected to Congress. He is running for the 41st District post. Jerry Yu, executive director office, attacked Kim for a po- of the Korean American Coali- tential conflict of interest, say- LOCAL ELECTIONS 41ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT tion, a nonprofit community ing he was "making a ton of action organization, said he ex- money from government con- tracts while he's seeking a Victory for Kim pects Kim to become "a leader and spokesperson for our is- government position as a liber- sues." al." Jong Moon Lee, a Diamond After the primary, however, Could Make History Bar dentist who heads the Bader endorsed Kim. But Lacy Korean American Federation said he still has reservations of Eastern Los Angeles, said about endorsing Kim because many Korean merchants his support for abortion rights By MIKE WARD (1) the first two of their three whose businesses sustained and his opposition to school TIMES STAFF WRITER children. He tolled in restaurants and damage in the Los Angeles vouchers are not consistent hen he came to the delivered newspapers; she riots believe help would have with the Republican platform. W come faster "If we had had the Herlop of the Rose Institute United States from worked as a restaurant hostess Korea 31, years ago, and grocery store clerk. right person speaking." said Kim's victory was the he was Chang Joon Kim, dish- Kim earned bachelor's and Moreover, Kim drew heavily most surprising to him in the washer and busboy. on ethnic support in outspend- California primary and the re- master's degrees in engineer- Now, he is Jay C. Kim, 53, Ing his rivals in the primary. suit reflected "a strategy that ing from USC, changed his raising $150,000-much of it worked brilliantly." the prosperous owner of an legal name to his American from Asian-American denors He said Kim's mailers and engineering firm and mayor of nickname, Jay, and obtained both within and outside his cable television commercials Diamond Bar, well on his way permanent residency by show- district-to go with $130,000 of told voters up front that here to becoming the first Korean- ing he had skills needed in American elected to Congress. his own money. was an Asian-American busi- America. In 1976, Kim started "I never dreamed that I But Kim says he is uncom- neasman with substantial fi- his own company. Jaykim En- fortable in the role of Kerean- nancial resources running for would become a congressman," gineers Inc., which designs Kim said. as amazed as anyone American spokesman in Wash- office. So when Bader attacked highways, water reclamation that he captured the Republi- Ington. He said he has a plan to him as 2 "wealthy government can nomination in the new 41st plants and other projects, many help his district but no agenda contractor," Heslop said, there District, an "area of burgeon- on contract to government for the Korean community. was no payoff. ing-and Anglo-majority- agencies. The company, which "I'm not sure how I can help." Addressing perhaps his most suburbs where Los Angeles, operates throughout the West, As to Korean-black rela- problematic issue, immigrant Orange and San Bernardino grew to 170 employees before tions, Kim said he thinks the Kim, who would follow 405 counties meet shrinking in the recession to Issue has been overplayed as a other foreign-born senators Kim must defeat Democrat 130. The firm is one of five factor In the Los Angeles riots, and representatives in Ameri- Bob Baker in November, but he named to a consortium of mi- which he blames primarily on can history, took a strong stand is heavily favored in the solidly nority-owned firms to demol- economics. against illegal immigration. GOP district ish buildings gutted in the riots. "If there were plenty of jobs, Ironically, Kim says, the Kim defeated five Republi- the riots would not have oc- crucial decisions in his life can competitors by stressing A 3 his business prospered curred," Kim said. "Create were to come to the United and his children grew (his his business success and railing jobs. Keep [people] busy. States and not to go back. older son is a neurosurgeon, his against professional politicians. Give them a worthwhile life." After graduating from USC daughter an interior designer He overcame the handicap-if Now à bespectacled, gray- in 1967, Kim had briefly con- and his younger son a college it was that-of running as an haired businessman, Kim was, sidered returning home, as for- student), Kim plunged into immigrant from Asia in a dis- 22 and fresh out of the South eign students are generally ex- civic activities. He won elec- trict that is only 10% Asian. Korean army when he came to pected to do. tion in 1990 to the Diamond Bar "When I ran. a lot of people the United States on a student But his father advised him to City Council. He also switched told me I wasn't going to make visa in 1961. "I couldn't speak a stay. it because I'm Asian," he said. from nonpartisan to Republi- word of English," he said. "That was the best decision 1' "The election gives the mes- can about 2½ years ago and June, his sweetheart from ever made." Kim said. "I made sage to the whole world that began contributing to Republi- Korea joined him. They mar. & lot of mistakes. but not that this is nonsense." can candidates. ried. and, in quick order. had one." SEP 21 '92 10:50 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 P.7/8 KIM For CONGRESS OVERVIEW 41st CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CALIFORNIA This is a new, open Republican seat that we consider winnable. It was created as a result of the re-districting after the '90 census, this new district includes suburban communities in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernadino counties. The district is 50% Republican and 39% Democrat. Demographically, this is a middle class and affluent district with a strong Republican vote history. Démocrats in the new 41st CD generally vote Republican and conservative. The elements of this district have been electing Republicans to Federal and State offices- i.e., William Dannemeyer, Jerry Lewis and David Dreier during the last decade. The primary Election survey commissioned by the Kim Congressional Campaign Commit- tee revealed that Republican voters when asked, "What is the most important issue facing the nation today?" replied (top issues): 1. Economic concerns 40% 2. Unemployment 19% 3. Budget deficit 7% Voters in the 41st CD vote with their pocketbook. Basically the wage earners in the 41st * CD are high-tech, executives, managers and professionals. There are many young married couples in new homes with both husband and wife employed. Voter registration in this tri-county district is 68% white, 15.3% hispanic, 6.9% African-American and 2.7% Asian. It includes eight incorporated cities. With its strong Republican vote history, Republican nominee Jay Kim should win this new district in November. Paid for and Authorized by: Jay Kim for Congress 1300 South Valley Vista Drive Diamond Bar, Carlornia 91765 (714)396-8173 FEC#C00250133 CALIFORNIA 41st Congressional District Boundary Map North RANCHO CUCAMONGA UPLAND (NTS) CLAREMONT LA VERNE SAN DIMAS SEP 21 '92 10:51 JAYKIM ENGINEERS10 213-426-2126 MONTCLAIR ONTARIO LOS ANGELES POMONA COUNTY CHINO a WALNUT DIAMOND BAR the CHINO Legend HILLS San Bemardino SAN BERNARDINO ROWLAND Unincorporated COUNTY HEIGHTS Area County Boundary 41st District 1 BREA Areas outside 41st district Partial District ANAHEM HILLS ORANGE P.8/8 COUNTY "As God is my witness -- I'll never change my name again" Amy Wright THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN THE WHITE HOUSE 9/21/92 WASHINGTON 02 SEP 18 PII : 23 September 18, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: STEVE PROVOST me & for SP FROM: CURT SMITH is SUBJECT: PROPOSED REMARKS TO KOREAN-AMERICAN RALLY I. SUMMARY On Monday, September 21st at 6:30 p.m., you will deliver remarks to an audience of 250 Korean-Americans -- mostly business leaders -- at a Victory '92 fundraiser in the Waldorf in New York City. II. DISCUSSION Your remarks (10 minutes / cards), based on your Agenda for American Renewal, focus on the contributions of the Korean- American community and the role they play in this election. Please note the bracketed remarks on page 4. Per Bob Zoellick's suggestion, they recall how Governor Clinton's letter to his draft board opposed government's right to draft in Korea. I may an not want this may X use THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN ONE CHANGE (Smith/Bunton) Draft Three September 18, 1992 WALDORF PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOREA-AMERICAN RALLY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1992 Senator D'Amato, thank you for that introduction. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be back in New York City -- that symbol of a kinder, gentler America. // ((Recently we had a discussion at the White House about the possible use of peacekeeping forces to quell open warfare. But fortunately, the New York Democratic Primary finally ended. )) // Tonight, I am honored to be at an event which speaks not of warfare but of friendship. An event which salutes America's STET STET fastest-growing Korean community: Think of it -- more than 150,000 strong. // In this room are people who share certain principles. Belief in work, and self-discipline. Love of family -- as you showed last week in your Korean Thanksgiving. Above all, faith in God. // These principles brought your families to America. Today, they can bring America to what is best in man. Recently, I announced a plan which does that -- my "Agenda for American Renewal." It seeks to open markets -- and enhance our schools, professions, and small and large businesses. For, you see, to me growth is not a buzzword. It's a watchword which makes America the envy of the world. // Our agenda will achieve growth through the human heart and will. Achieve it as you have in New York -- where nearly 12,000 2 Koreans own businesses. / You know, it's funny. I look around and see business people. Some mom and pop / some bigger. I know why you're here. You know progress comes not from government doing to people -- but through people doing for themselves. // Like many of you, I've been a businessman. Spent half my career in the private sector -- creating jobs and meeting a payroll --- and I had the ulcers to prove it. / What I learned was that higher taxes and spending don't create jobs. They destroy jobs. That's why my Agenda for American Renewal recalls what drew you to America: Lower taxes, lower spending, and less regulation. dollar These fundamentals can help create the world's first $10 trillion economy by the early years of the 21st Century. // Here's how we'll do it. First, through challenging the world. I want to get Congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The reason's simple: More free trade means more American jobs. / My opponent says America should turn inward -- away from the world economy. You show why we should reach out -- to Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe, and, yes, across the Pacific to your homeland and all of Asia. // Think of how hard you work. You show why the American worker competes -- and why we will win. Yet our kids must compete, as well. That means reforming education -- higher standards, better discipline. / We also need the other parts of our Agenda. Sharpen business' competitive edge -- cutting regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. / Protect economic security -- cutting health care costs without socialized 3 medicine. / Help the poor -- and make government more responsive. Today, government is too big and it spends too much. Look at Jang [Jahng] Lee, who owns a Korean radio station in Los Angeles. He knows what I mean. So does the great martial arts instructor, Jhoon [June] Rhee -- a Daily Point of Light who gives new meaning to those two words, "Or else. " / Then there's an American Original who is an American Hero, Jay Kim. He came here without a penny. Built one of America's top engineering companies. Elected Mayor of Diamond Bar, California. Give as often -- and as much -- as you can. We need to make Jay Kim the first Korean-American elected to the United States Congress. // People like these show why "Korean" is not just a name. It's a way of life. / It means respect for law. My Administration will not rest until we have helped any business harmed by the Los Angeles and Chicago riots --- and made sure it doesn't happen elsewhere. / It means knowing that family is America's heirloom of the heart. You as a community prove that. "Korean" means creativity, too: You know government should reward work -- not penalize it. / I'm impressed by the fact that Koreans invented the wheelchair, moveable type, and armored warships. ( (What a perfect weapon for a campaign.) ) / I sometimes wonder what might have happened had the Wright Brothers been forced to wait for government approval before testing their flying machine. If they had, I might have come here by steamboat, not Air Force One. / 4 The reason Korean-Americans are Republican is that we embrace these values. We back freedom at home. We have fought for it abroad. It's been said that "one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. " / Well, today America is opening a road I hope will lead to democracy and human rights north of the 38th Parallel. A road of security and economic development. And, yes, to a reunified Korea. [[I wonder if my opponent feels the same. I suspect most of you have heard about the letter Governor Clinton sent his draft board. I urge all of you to read it -- because it includes some amazing things. [[One little-reported thing may especially interest you: In discussing his opposition to the Viet Nam war, my opponent added that the United States wasn't justified in drafting people to fight in Korea. / His logic was that we shouldn't require our citizens to fight in any war that -- and I quote -- "does not the involve immediately the peace and freedom of our Nation. = CLINTON LETTER TO [[What do you think of that? That is wrong Cor. HOLMES ROTC/UNIV. ARK. thought 50.]] ++ DEC. 3, 1969 My opponent may not know how, to a great extent, our modern relations with Korea date from the brutal invasion of the South by the Communists in 1950. We do. We remember your suffering and sacrifice. Remember how it was the United States that successfully mobilized international resistance to the invasion. Then -- with the generosity distinctive of America -- we extended an open hand -- and met Korea's open heart. / We 5 rebuilt a country / began a partnership that endures / and committed America to a Korea both safe and free. / Yes, the threat from the North still lingers. We are worried about the potential North Korean nuclear threat -- the consequences of which are unthinkable. That is why we have told Pyongyang: The path to reconciliation is the only path worth taking. / I am hopeful about the future. I know that the Republic of Korea is working to reduce North-South tensions -- and to unite the 10 million Korean families now separated for 40 years. We are giving these policies our full support. // It is tragic that Korea is the only country still divided since World War II. I look forward to being the first American President to stand on reunited Korean soil. // And I believe it will happen -- for I know what we have achieved in the last 3 and 1/2 years. Today, Imperial Communism is not just E-V-I-L -- as Ronald Reagan told us. It is D-E-A-D. If its tyranny can crumble -- so can the 38th Parallel. // Freedom abroad and at home. It all comes back to principles. Liberty. Opportunity. Love of family. Faith in God. Koreans share these values --- as does the Republican Party -- as does my Administration. And we always will. // On November 3, we can uphold these values -- and carry them to the Nation. Thank you for your kindness, and your support. God bless you -- and the United States of America. # # # # TIME OF TRANSMISSION TIME OF RECEIPT WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM PRECEDENCE: MMMEDIATE RELEASER: PRIORITY ROUTINE DTG: MESSAGE NO. CLASSIFICATION UNCLASS PAGES 3 FROM JBUNTON 7750 111.5 (NAME) (PHONE NUMBER) (ROOM NO.) MESSAGE DESCRIPTION KOREAN- AMERICAN TO (AGENCY) DELIVER TO DEPT/ROOM NO. PHONE NUMBER SR. STAFF CHRISTINA MARTIN REMARKS: A FEW CHANGES FOR KOREAN-HMERICAN VICTORY '92 REMARKS BRING 00 TO BACK BAGELS 1 OR DEFINITELY BARNEY'S GET IN A UTLE SHOPPING ! AB THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 18, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: STEVE PROVOST Martasp FROM: CURT SMITH SUBJECT: PROPOSED REMARKS TO KOREAN-AMERICAN RALLY I. SUMMARY On Monday, September 21st at 6:30 p.m., you will deliver remarks to an audience of 250 Korean-American business leaders at a Victory '92 fundraiser in the Waldorf in New York City. II. DISCUSSION Your remarks (approximately 11 minutes / cards), based on your agenda for American Renewal, focus on the contributions of the Korean-American community and the role they play in this election. (Smith/Bunton) Draft Two September 18, 1992 WALDORF PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOREA-AMERICAN RALLY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1992 Senator D'Amato, thank you for that introduction. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be back in New York City. (Someone asked me how it feels to be fighting for a job that someone else wants. I said: "If I run into Ray Handley I'll ask him.")) // It is an honor to be with leaders of America's fastest- growing Korean community. Think of it -- more than 150,000 strong. // In this room are people who share certain principles. Belief in work, and self-discipline. Love of family -- as you showed last week in your Korean Thanksgiving. Above all, faith in country and God. // These principles brought your families to America. Today, they can bring America to what is best in man. Two weeks ago, I announced a plan which does that -- my "Agenda for American Renewal." / It seeks to open markets -- create jobs -- and enhance our schools, professions, and small and large businesses. For, you see: I believe this -- believe it deeply. Growth is not a buzzword. It is a watchword which makes America the envy of the world. // Our agenda will achieve growth through the human heart and will. Achieve it as you have in New York -- where nearly 12,000 Koreans own businesses. / You came here in search of opportunity 2 -- and you're finding it. Came to build a better life -- and are building a better America. Not through government -- what bureaucracy has done to America --- but entrepreneurial capitalism -- what Korean-Americans have done for themselves. // I look around here and see business people. Some mom and pop / some bigger. Members of the garment industry / owners of dry cleaning, fish and fruit, vegetable and grocery stores / stars from high-tech to high finance. I marvel at this turnout, and I think: Here -- truly -- I'm at home. // Like many of you, I've been a businessman. Unlike my opponent, I've spent half my career in the private sector -- creating jobs and meeting a payroll -- and I had the ulcers to prove it. / I think that's a pretty good qualification to be President -- not the ulcers! The understanding. / What I learned in business was that higher taxes and spending don't create jobs. They destroy jobs. // That's why my Agenda for American Renewal builds on the fundamentals which drew you to America: Lower taxes, lower spending, and less regulations. / These fundamentals can make us an economic, military, and export superpower. Let's use them to build the world's first $10 trillion economy by the early years of the Twenty-First Century. // Here's how we'll do it. First, through challenging the world. I want to get Congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The reason's simple: More free trade means more American jobs. / My opponent says America 3 should turn inward -- away from the world economy. You show why we should reach out -- to Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe, and, yes, across the Pacific to your homeland and all of Asia. // Think of the hours you put in -- how hard you work. You know why the American worker will never retreat. We will compete -- and we will win. // We need to help our kids compete. That means reforming education: Higher standards / better discipline / giving parents the right to choose kids' schools. / We need, too, to adopt other parts of our Agenda. I want to sharpen business' competitive edge -- cutting regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. / I want to protect economic security -- cutting health care costs without socialized medicine. I want to help the poor -- and to make government more responsive. Today, government is too big and it spends too much. Look at Jang [Jahng] Lee, who owns a Korean radio station in Los Angeles. He knows what I mean. So does Phil Gramm's wife, Wendy, Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission. or the great martial arts instructor, Jhoon [June] Rhee -- a Daily Point of Light who gives new meaning to those two words, "Or else. " / Then there's an American Original who is an American Hero, Jay Kim. This man came here without a penny. Built one of America's top engineering companies. Elected Mayor of Diamond Bar, California. Give as often -- and as much -- as you can. We need to make Jay Kim the first Korean-American elected to the United States Congress. // 4 People like these show why "Korean" is not just a name. It's a way of life. It means respect for law. My Administration will not rest until we have helped any business harmed by the Los Angeles and Chicago riots -- and make sure it doesn't happen elsewhere. / It means love of family. The family is America's heirloom of the heart. You as a community prove that. "Korean" means creativity, too: You know government should reward work -- not penalize it. / I'm impressed by the fact that Koreans invented the wheelchair, moveable type, and armored warships. ( (What a perfect weapon for a campaign. )) / I sometimes wonder what might have happened had the Wright Brothers been forced to wait for government approval before testing their flying machine. If they had, I might have come here by steamboat, not Air Force One. / The reason Korean-Americans are Republican is that we embrace these values: We know prosperity doesn't depend on the size of government -- but on the size of your dreams. / We back freedom at home. We have fought for it abroad. It's been said that "one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels." / Well, today America is opening a road I hope will lead to democracy and human rights north of the 38th Parallel. A road of security and economic development. And to the reunification of the country you love. To some extent, our modern relations with Korea date from the brutal invasion of the South by the Communists in 1950. I know many of you recall that event. I recall it, too. I 5 remember your suffering and sacrifice. Remember how it was the United States that successfully mobilized international resistance to the invasion. // Then -- with the generosity distinctive of America -- we extended an open hand -- and met Korea's open heart. / We rebuilt a country / began a partnership that endures / and committed America to a Korea both safe and free. / Yes, the threat from the North still lingers. We are worried about the potential North Korean nuclear threat -- the consequences of which are unthinkable. That is why we have told Pyongyang: The path to reconciliation is the only path worth taking. / I am hopeful about the future. I know that the Republic of Korea is working to reduce North-South tensions / to end North Korea's isolation / and to unite the 10 million Korean families now separated for 40 years. We are giving these policies our full support. // It is tragic that Korea is the only country still divided since World War II. I look forward to being the first American President to stand on reunited Korean soil. // And I believe it will happen -- for I know what we have achieved in the last 3 and 1/2 years. In Berlin, a wall collapsed. From Kuwait to Panama, those once enslaved are now free. Today, Imperial Communism is not just E-V-I-L -- as Ronald Reagan told us. It is D-E-A-D. If its tyranny can crumble -- so can the 38th Parallel. // Freedom abroad. Freedom at home. It all comes back to principles. Love of liberty; and opportunity. Belief in the 6 family. Belief in God. / Koreans share these values -- as does the Republican Party -- as does my Administration. And we always will. // On November 3, we can uphold these values -- and carry them to the Nation. Thank you for your kindness, and your support. God bless you -- and the United States of America. # # # # 1000000 eftc FAX To: Jeannie Bunton Fax Number: 456-6218 From: Joe Duggan Office of Communication and Education Services Phone: 202-254-8630 Fax: 202-254-3678 Number of Pages to follow 4 Message: If fax is incomplete, please call 202-254-8630. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission 2033 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581 The CFTC is the Federal Regulatory Agency for Futures Trading tional office. Republican S.I. Asi Hayakawa charmed voters and Preside won election to the U.S. Senate Gramu in 1976, then was forced to re- lot of 1 tire as Californians became fed pen be up with his quirky personality she add and frequent catnaps. hard 1. campal The most immediate chance for an Asian American break. The through in California is offered could b by Representative Robert Mat- husban sui, D-Sacramento, who is plan. ing in ning to quit his safe seat next campail year to run in a Democratic pri- Asian , mary for the U.S. Senate. But could p. Matsul starts out as one of the dice rus lesser-known figures in a gines. ( crowded field dominated by likeliho former Governor Jerry Brown. would b Interrac Pleusible Scenario She had a pr As Asian Americans in Call- her husl fornia spin scenarios for politi- per-cons cal success, I'll bet few of them is a state have hit upon this plausible sce- came fr nario: In 1996, it's altogether countrie possible that an accomplished don't res Asian American could make It state and all the way to the White House - as first lady. ZIGGY Her name is Wendy Lee Gramm. She was born in Ha- wall. ller grandparents were Korean Immigrants who picked THE sugarcane. Her father became BROI ALi an executive of a sugar compa- ny. Now. she helps regulate sug- ar prices as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A scholar with a Ph.D in economics, she also Just hap- pens to be married to Senator Phill Crainm. One Asian American Who Could Get to White House Washington White House connection. Secret SIAN AMERICANS. whose for Cramm is known to be very numbers more than doubt. much interested in running for ed in the past decade, are look- president in 1996. He Is routine- Ing for the cight combination of ly listed among those who hope luck, talent and drive to trans. to brush aside Vice President late those numbers into greater Dan Quayle for the GOP prest. political representation. dential nomination, assuming The 1990 census counted at. that A Bush.Quayl. ticket wins next year. most 7.3 million Asians, 30 per- cent of them in California, up Gramm, a staunch conser. from 3.0 million in 1980. Even In valive and former Democrat, is California, however, there are collecting political IOUs as few cities, counties or congres. chairman of the Republican signal districts where Asians Senate campaign committee. can reach the critical mass to Newsweek magazine notes this efect one of their own without week that Gramm "Las made no strong support from other Not- secret of his lust for the White crs. House" and has "all but signed In California, Secretary of up a. compaign manager. well- State March Fong Ev. the sole connected COP consultant Charles Black." Asian with an enduring atche in statewide g is un. "Love Compelgaine' likely to he a candidate for na. tional office. Republican S.I. Asked about a ciramm for - Hayakawa charmed voters and President campaign, Wendy won election to the U.S. Senate Grania told me, "There are . in 1976, then was forced to re tot of things that have to hap- tire as Californians became fed pen before that happens." But up with his quirky personality she added, "I've always worked and frequent cathaps. hard for my husband. 1 love The most Immediate chance campaigning." for an Asian American break- The SAVVY Wendy Gramm through In California is offered could be & political asset to her by Representative Robert Mat. husband, especially campaign- aul, D-Sacramento, who is plan. ing in Culifornia and raising ning to quit his safe seat next cainpaign contributions from year to run in . Democratic pri. Asian Americans. But she also mary for the U.S. Senate. But could prove a Hability if preju. Matsul starts out as one of the dice runs deeper than she ima- lesser-known figures in a since. Gramm minimized the crowded field dominated by likelshood that some Americans furner Governor Jerry Brown. would be against the Idea of an Interracial first family. Pleasible Scenario She Instated she has never As Asian Americans in Call. had a problem campaigning for fornin spin for polici- her husband in supposedly su. call success, I'll bet few of them per-conservative Texas. "Texas have hit upon this plaus(ble see. is A state where a lot of people nacla: In 1996, It's altogether came from . lot of different possible that an accomplished countries," she said. "People Asian American could make It don't realize it's a very ethnic all the way to the White House state and very open." - as first tady. Her name la Wendy Lee ZIGGY Gramm. She was born in Ha. wall. ller grandparents were Korean immigrants who picked THE FOLLOWING WAR IS sugarcane. Her father became BROUGHT ть You BEFORE au executive of A sugar comps- A LIVE AUDIENCE!! ny. Now, she helps regulate aug- at prices art chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A scholar with & Ph.D In sconomics, she also Just hape. vene to be married to Sensior Phil Gramm, STATEMENT BY SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION AND FORESTRY ON FEBRUARY 3, 1988. Mr. Chairman, it is my privilege to present to my distinguished colleagues on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Dr. Wendy Gramm, the President's nominee for Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. I am both proud and honored to appear with this excellent candidate today. Dr. Gramm currently serves as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House Office of Management and Budget. In this capacity, she reviews the Administration's regulatory program and exercises oversight authority over all federally promulgated regulations. She is also charged with supervising paperwork reduction efforts through coordination of federal information and statistical policy. Dr. Gramm holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College and a Doctorate degree from Northwestern University, both in economics. She joined the Texas A&M University faculty as a professor of Economics, and later became the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Texas A&M Economics Department. Dr. Gramm also worked for the Federal Trade Commission, serving as assistant director, and then director of its Bureau of Economics. Her background speaks for itself. One facet of her resume that I am very proud to bring to the Committee's attention is her Hawaii connection. Wendy Gramm is the granddaughter of Korean immigrants who came to Hawaii at the turn of the century to work in the sugar fields. Her family settled in the plantation town of Waialua on the Island of Oahu. It was in this small town of Waialua that Wendy Gramm was born. From her humble and proud beginnings, Wendy Gramm has distinguished herself as a scholar and skilled administrator, possessing integrity and a commitment to excellence. If confirmed, she will be the first Asian woman to be appointed to a high Executive post. The people of Hawaii are very proud of her accomplishments. However, Hawaii lost Wendy Gramm to the State of Texas. A gentleman by the name of Phil Gramm came along, swept her off her feet, and took her from Hawaii. Nonetheless, Hawaii's residents send Wendy Gramm their aloha and best wishes for an expeditious hearing and confirmation. Page 2 Dr. Gramm has displayed extraordinary administrative and intellectual capabilities. I am confident that she will uphold the Commission's responsibility of ensuring that the futures trading system operates in a fair and orderly manner. Dr. Gramm's academic background in economics, and her practical experience and knowledge of the federal regulatory process, will aid her in protecting both the rights of customers and the financial integrity of the marketplace. Mr. Chairman, and distinguished members of the Committee, it is my privilege to present Dr. Wendy Gramm. I urge this Committee to carefully examine her record and accomplishments. Dr. Gramm has my full support, and I recommend that she receive the Committee's full and fair consideration. 09/18/92 16:54 001 3 NEW YORK AI D'Amato FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL New York City Office Seven Penn Plaza Seventh Avenue Suite 600 New York, New York 10001 Please Deliver To: Geanie Bunton From: John Sitilides Total Number of Pages: 2 Date of Transmittal: Time of Transmittal: Messages: IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE ALL THE PAGES PLEASE CALL (212) 947-7396 09/18/92 16:55 002 U.S. SENATOR AI D'Amato News Release NEWYORK For Immediate Release Contact: John Sitilides 212-736-5185 Wednesday, August 26, 1992 D'AMATO CELEBRATES REOPENING OF LOOTED WASHINGTON HEIGHTS STORE KOREAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY GETS SECOND CHANCE AT AMERICAN DREAM U.S. Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-NY) today joined a Korean immigrant family to celebrate the reopening of their Washington Heights sporting goods store, which was looted and ransacked by rioters last month. "The Hong family built this store up from scratch, only to lose it all to violent looters," D'Amato stated. "Their American dream turned into a nightmare of vandalism and destruction. "Now, the Hongs can celebrate a second chance to rebuild their business and piece together their shattered lives," the Senator stated "Today's colobration is 2 living tribute to triumph over adversity." D'Amato joined Hwaeun Hong and his family, Dr. J.T. Kim, President of the Korean-American Association of New York, and other Korean-American leaders at the KP Original Sporting Goods store for the reopening celebration. D'Amato also stated that the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) is consulting with Chemical Bank to determine whether any additional assistance is available. One approach might include the SBA guaranteed loan program, under which the federal agency guarantees up to 85% of the loan in the event of default. Hong atrated. UT - -* ***** F-- L. assistance and support. We are looking forward to filling up our shelves and running our small family business again." Hong noted that 35%-40% of his store's annual revenues are earned during the current back-to-school season. During the early morning hours of July 7th, looters smashed into the store, and quickly stole about $700,000 worth of merchandisc. Hong opened the store in 1984, five years after he emigrated to the United States from Korea. Hong, his wife Hyun, and their children Robert, Thomas and Albert all worked at the store. -js082692- United Claims Cenals - Washington, D.C. 20510 - (202) 224-0542 Regional Offices: New York (212) 947-7390 / Albany (518) 472-4343 / Syracuse (315) 423-5471 / Rochester (718) 263-5866 / Buttalo (716) 846-4111 / FACTORIDS and Edits (Smith/Bunton) Draft One September 18, 1992 WALDORF PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOREA-AMERICAN RALLY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1992 Senator D'Amato, thank you for that introduction. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be back in New York City. ( (Someone asked me how it feels to be fighting for a job that someone else wants. I said: "If I run into Ray Randley I'll ask him.")) // GANTS NY. H It is an honor to be with leaders of America's second- COACH largest Korean community. Think of it -- more than 150,000 9/13/92 QUEENS strong. // EDITION, Newsday by Rose kim; P.I In this room are people who share certain principles. Belief in work, and self-discipline. Love of family -- as you Mr. you - showed last week in your Korean Thanksgiving. Above all, faith in God. // These principles brought your families to America. Today, they can bring America to what is best in man. // TWO WEEKS AGO Sept. 10, 1992 DETROIT ECONOMIC CLUB Last month, I announced a plan which does that -- my "Agenda for American Renewal." / It seeks to open markets -- create jobs -- and enhance our schools, professions, and small and large business. For, you see: I believe this -- believe it deeply. Growth is not a buzzword. It is a watchword which makes America the envy of the world. // Our agenda will achieve growth through the human heart and will, not race or national origin. Achieve it as you have in New nearly York -- where 12,000 Koreans own businesses. / You came here in Syr list only adds up to 11,500 korean owned businesser search of opportunity -- and you're finding it. Came to build a 2 letter life -- and are building a better America. Not through government -- what bureaucracy has done to America -- but entrepreneurial capitalism -- what Korean-Americans have done for themselves. // brouded the base I look around here and see business people. Some mom and members of the garment industry, high-tech Mr.you you pop / some bigger / owning dry cleaning, fish and grocery stores, ers of to finance high Mr. yoo 70 percent of New York's fruit and vegetable stores. I marvel at this turnout, and I think: Here -- truly -- I'm at home. // Like many of you, I've been a businessman. Unlike my opponent, I've spent half my career in the private sector -- creating jobs and meeting a payroll -- and I had the ulcers to MAKES IT SOUND TIKE HAVING LIKERS GOD QUALIFICATION FOR PRES.) prove it. / I think that's a pretty good qualification to be not the ulcers, the understanding. President. What I learned in business was that higher taxes and spending don't create jobs. They destroy jobs. // That's why my Agenda for American Renewal seeks to decrease what government must do and increase what the individual may do. It builds on the fundamentals which drew you to America: Lower taxes, lower spending, and less regulations. These fundamentals can make us an economic, military, and export superpower. Let's dollar use them to build the world's first $10 trillion economy by the early years of the Twenty-First Century. // Here's how we'll do it. First, through challenging the were already world. I want to complete the global trade agreement and get caupleted Congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The reason's simple: More free trade means more American jobs. / My opponent says America should turn inward -- 3 away from the world economy. You show why we should reach out - - to Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe, and, yes, across the Pacific to your homeland and all of Asia. // Think of the hours you put in -- how hard you work. You know why the American worker will never retreat. We will compete -- and we will win. // We need to help our kids compete. That means reforming education: Higher standards / better discipline / giving parents the right to choose kids' schools. / We need, too, to adopt other parts of our Agenda. I want to sharpen business' competitive edge -- cutting regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. / I want to protect economic security -- cutting health care costs without socialized medicine. I want to help the poor -- and to make government more responsive. Today, government is too big and it spends too much. Add- JOON RHEE whill be a event) Look at Jang Lee, who owns a Korean radio station in Los Angeles. He knows what I mean. So does Wendy Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm and Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission. / Or an American Original who is an American Hero. humble beg ennings This man came here without à penny. Built one of America's top ? 9 TIM HECHT / POLITICAL 6510 500 engineering companies. Elected Mayor of Diamond Bary RMHECHT California. I can tell you how proud I am this event is NR helping his campaign. Give as often -- and as much -- as you American can. We need to make Jay Kim the first Korean elected to the CLAYDN FONG OPL United States Congress. // People like these show why "Korean" is not just a name. It's a way of life. It means respect for law. My Administration 4 will not rest until we have helped any business harmed by the Los Angeles and Chicago riots. / It means love of family. The family is America's umbilical cord: Our policies must strengthen -- not weaken -- it. / "Korean" means creativity, too: You know government should reward work -- not penalize it. / I'm impressed by the fact that Koreans invented the wheelchair, * moveable type armored warships, and taekwondo. ((Maybe I should add sick Jhroon Ree on Congress. )) / I sometimes wonder what might earlier to successes have happened had the Wright Brothers been forced to wait for government approval before testing their flying machine. If they had, I might have come here by steamboat, not Air Force One. / The reason Korean-Americans are Republican is that we embrace these values: We know prosperity doesn't depend on the size of government -- but on the size of your dreams. / We back freedom at home. We have fought for it abroad. It's been said that "one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. " / Well, today America is opening a road I hope will lead to democracy and human rights not just in South Korea but e north of the 38th Parallel. A road of security and economic development. And to the reunification of the country you love. To some extent, our modern relations with Korea date from STATE DEPT. the brutal invasion of the South by the Communists in 1950. I know many of you recall that event. I recall it, too. I remember your suffering and sacrifice. Remember how -- as we did last year in Kuwait -- it was the United States that successfully mobilized international resistance to the invasion. // 5 Then -- with the generosity distinctive of America -- we extended an open hand -- and met Korea's open heart. / We rebuilt a country / began a partnership that endures / and committed America to a Korea both safe and free. / Yes, the threat from the North still lingers. We are worried about the potential North Korean nuclear threat. That is why we have told Pyongyang: Remember Saddam -- aggression will not stand. / I am hopeful about the future. I know for sure that we will work, with our allies in Seoul, to reduce North-South tensions / to end North Korea's isolation / and to unite the 10 million Korean families now separated for 40 years. // It is obscene that Korea is the only country still divided since World War II. I look forward to being the first American President to stand on reunited Korean soil. // And I believe it will happen -- for I know what we have achieved in the last 3 and 1/2 years. In Berlin, a wall collapses. From Kuwait to Panama, those once enslaved are now free. Today, Imperial Communism is not just E-V-I-L -- as Ronald Reagan predicted. It is D-E-A-D. If its tyranny can crumble -- so can the 38th Parallel. // Freedom abroad. Freedom at home. It all comes back to principles. Love of liberty, and opportunity. Belief in the family. Belief in God. / Koreans share these values -- as does the Republican Party -- as does my Administration. And we always will. // 6 On November 3, we can uphold these values -- and carry them to the Nation. Thank you for your kindness, and your support. God bless you -- and the United States of America. # # # # THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 1992 The President today recognized Jhoon Rhee of Arlington, Virginia, as the 721st Daily Point of Light for the Nation. Mr. Rhee, a long-time martial arts instructor, helps Washington-area youth develop good character and values. Mr. Rhee, 60, has been a martial arts instructor in the United States for over 30 years. Although his methods are similar to most tae kwan do and karate masters, his style and objectives are unique. As a philosopher and teacher, Mr. Rhee volunteers two hours a week at seven area elementary schools, promoting and teaching the basic elements of martial arts: concentration, respect, and discipline. Adhering to these qualities helps young people become better students. Mr. Rhee sees martial arts as a means to an end, which is to instill in young people self-confidence, strong values, and good habits. By teaching them to develop positive attitudes, to motivate themselves, to make responsible choices, and to concentrate on learning, he helps them become more accountable for their actions and more respectful of themselves, their parents, teachers, and friends. Mr. Rhee's instruction focuses initially on the physical, mental, and emotional fitness of first grade students. It then follows their progress through elementary school, fostering individual growth and development. Mr. Rhee has shared his knowledge and philosophy with youngsters attending Amidon, Bowen, Wilkinson, Brookland, Clark, Ft. Lincoln, and Raymond elementary schools. The President salutes Jhoon Rhee for exemplifying his belief that, "From now on in America, any definition of a successful life must include serving others." " # # # FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Miah Homstad (202) 456-6266 (Smith/Bunton) Draft One September 18, 1992 WALDORF PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOREA-AMERICAN RALLY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1992 Senator D'Amato, thank you for that introduction. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be back in New York City. ((Someone asked me how it feels to be fighting for a job that someone else wants. I said: "If I run into Ray Randley I'll ask him. ) // It is an honor to be with leaders of America's second- largest Korean community. Think of it -- more than 150,000 strong. // In this room are people who share certain principles. Belief in work, and self-discipline. Love of family -- as you showed last week in your Korean Thanksgiving. Above all, faith in God. // These principles brought your families to America. Today, they can bring America to what is best in man. // TWO WEEKS AGO Last month, I announced a plan which does that -- my "Agenda for American Renewal." / It seeks to open markets -- create jobs -- and enhance our schools, professions, and small and large business. For, you see: I believe this -- believe it deeply. Growth is not a buzzword. It is a watchword which makes America the envy of the world. // Our agenda will achieve growth through the human heart and will, not race or national origin. Achieve it, as you have in New York -- where 12, 000 Koreans own businesses. / You came here in search of opportunity -- and you're finding it. Came to build a the list only adds up to 11,500 korean owned businesser 2 letter life -- and are building a better America. Not through government -- what bureaucracy has done to America -- but entrepreneurial capitalism -- what Korean-Americans have done for themselves. // I look around here and see business people. Some mom and members of the garment industry, pop / some bigger / owning dry cleaning, fish and grocery stores, ers of 70 percent of New York's fruit and vegetable stores. I marvel at this turnout, and I think: Here -- truly -- I'm at home. // Like many of you, I've been a businessman. Unlike my opponent, I've spent half my career in the private sector -- creating jobs and meeting a payroll -- and I had the ulcers to prove it. / I think that's a pretty good qualification to be President. What I learned in business was that higher taxes and spending don't create jobs. They destroy jobs. // That's why my Agenda for American Renewal seeks to decrease what government must do and increase what the individual may do. It builds on the fundamentals which drew you to America: Lower taxes, lower spending, and less regulations. These fundamentals can make us an economic, military, and export superpower. Let's use them to build the world's first $10 trillion economy by the early years of the Twenty-First Century. // Here's how we'll do it. First, through challenging the world. I want to complete the global trade agreement and get Congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The reason's simple: More free trade means more American jobs. / My opponent says America should turn inward -- 3 away from the world economy. You show why we should reach out - - to Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe, and, yes, across the Pacific to your homeland and all of Asia. // Think of the hours you put in -- how hard you work. You know why the American worker will never retreat. We will compete -- and we will win. // We need to help our kids compete. That means reforming education: Higher standards / better discipline / giving parents the right to choose kids' schools. / We need, too, to adopt other parts of our Agenda. I want to sharpen business' competitive edge -- cutting regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. / I want to protect economic security -- cutting health care costs without socialized medicine. I want to help the poor -- and to make government more responsive. Today, government is too big and it spends too much. Look at Jang Lee, who owns a Korean radio station in Los Angeles. He knows what I mean. So does Wendy Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm and Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission. / Or an American Original who is an American Hero. This man came here without a penny. Built one of America's top 500 engineering companies. Elected Mayor of Diamond Barr, California. I can't tell you how proud I am this event is helping his campaign. Give as often -- and as much -- as you can. We need to make Jay Kim the first Korean elected to the United States Congress. // People like these show why "Korean" is not just a name. It's a way of life. It means respect for law. My Administration 4 will not rest until we have helped any business harmed by the Los Angeles and Chicago riots. / It means love of family. The family is America's umbilical cord: Our policies must strengthen -- not weaken -- it. / "Korean" means creativity, too: You know government should reward work -- not penalize it. / I'm impressed by the fact that Koreans invented the wheelchair, moveable type, armored warships, and taekwondo. ( (Maybe I should sick Jhroon Ree on Congress.) ) / I sometimes wonder what might have happened had the Wright Brothers been forced to wait for government approval before testing their flying machine. If they had, I might have come here by steamboat, not Air Force One. / The reason Korean-Americans are Republican is that we embrace these values: We know prosperity doesn't depend on the size of government -- but on the size of your dreams. / We back freedom at home. We have fought for it abroad. It's been said that "one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. / Well, today America is opening a road I hope will lead to democracy and human rights not just in South Korea but north of the 38th Parallel. A road of security and economic development. And to the reunification of the country you love. To some extent, our modern relations with Korea date from the brutal invasion of the South by the Communists in 1950. I know many of you recall that event. I recall it, too. I remember your suffering and sacrifice. Remember how -- as we did last year in Kuwait -- it was the United States that successfully mobilized international resistance to the invasion. // 5 Then -- with the generosity distinctive of America -- we extended an open hand -- and met Korea's open heart. / We rebuilt a country / began a partnership that endures / and committed America to a Korea both safe and free. / Yes, the threat from the North still lingers. We are worried about the potential North Korean nuclear threat. That is why we have told Pyongyang: Remember Saddam -- aggression will not stand. / I am hopeful about the future. I know for sure that we will work, with our allies in Seoul, to reduce North-South tensions / to end North Korea's isolation / and to unite the 10 million Korean families now separated for 40 years. 11 It is obscene that Korea is the only country still divided since World War II. I look forward to being the first American President to stand on reunited Korean soil. // And I believe it will happen -- for I know what we have achieved in the last 3 and 1/2 years. In Berlin, a wall collapses. From Kuwait to Panama, those once enslaved are now free. Today, Imperial Communism is not just E-V-I-L -- as Ronald Reagan predicted. It is D-E-A-D. If its tyranny can crumble -- so can the 38th Parallel. // Freedom abroad. Freedom at home. It all comes back to principles. Love of liberty, and opportunity. Belief in the family. Belief in God. / Koreans share these values -- as does the Republican Party -- as does my Administration. And we always will. // 6 On November 3, we can uphold these values -- and carry them to the Nation. Thank you for your kindness, and your support. God bless you -- and the United States of America. # # # # (Smith/Bunton) Draft One September 18, 1992 WALDORF PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOREA-AMERICAN RALLY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1992 Senator D'Amato, thank you for that introduction. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be back in New York City. ( (Someone asked me how it feels to be fighting for a job that someone else wants. I said: "If I run into Ray Randley I'll ask him. ")) // It is an honor to be with leaders of America's second- largest Korean community. Think of it -- more than 150,000 strong. // In this room are people who share certain principles. Belief in work, and self-discipline. Love of family -- as you showed last week in your Korean Thanksgiving. Above all, faith in God. // These principles brought your families to America. Today, they can bring America to what is best in man. // TWO WEEKS AGO Last month, I announced a plan which does that -- my "Agenda for American Renewal. " / It seeks to open markets -- create jobs -- and enhance our schools, professions, and small and large business. For, you see: I believe this -- believe it deeply. Growth is not a buzzword. It is a watchword which makes America the envy of the world. // Our agenda will achieve growth through the human heart and will, not race or national origin. Achieve it as you have in New York -- where 12 000 Koreans own businesses. / You came here in Sxle list only adds up to 11,500 korean owned businesser search of opportunity -- and you're finding it. Came to build a 2 letter life -- and are building a better America. Not through government -- what bureaucracy has done to America -- but entrepreneurial capitalism -- what Korean-Americans have done for themselves. // I look around here and see business people. Some mom and members of the garment industry, pop / some bigger / owning dry cleaning, fish and grocery stores, ers of 70 percent of New York's fruit and vegetable stores. I marvel at this turnout, and I think: Here -- truly -- I'm at home. // Like many of you, I've been a businessman. Unlike my opponent, I've spent half my career in the private sector -- creating jobs and meeting a payroll -- and I had the ulcers to prove it. / I think that's a pretty good qualification to be President. What I learned in business was that higher taxes and spending don't create jobs. They destroy jobs. 11 That's why my Agenda for American Renewal seeks to decrease what government must do and increase what the individual may do. It builds on the fundamentals which drew you to America: Lower taxes, lower spending, and less regulations. These fundamentals can make us an economic, military, and export superpower. Let's use them to build the world's first $10 trillion economy by the early years of the Twenty-First Century. // Here's how we'll do it. First, through challenging the world. I want to complete the global trade agreement and get Congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The reason's simple: More free trade means more American jobs. / My opponent says America should turn inward -- 3 away from the world economy. You show why we should reach out - - to Mexico, Canada, Eastern Europe, and, yes, across the Pacific to your homeland and all of Asia. // Think of the hours you put in -- how hard you work. You know why the American worker will never retreat. We will compete -- and we will win. // We need to help our kids compete. That means reforming education: Higher standards / better discipline / giving parents the right to choose kids' schools. / We need, too, to adopt other parts of our Agenda. I want to sharpen business' competitive edge -- cutting regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. / I want to protect economic security -- cutting health care costs without socialized medicine. I want to help the poor -- and to make government more responsive. Today, government is too big and it spends too much. Look at Jang Lee, who owns a Korean radio station in Los Angeles. He knows what I mean. So does Wendy Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm and Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission. / Or an American Original who is an American Hero. This man came here without a penny. Built one of America's top 500 engineering companies. Elected Mayor of Diamond Barr, California. I can't tell you how proud I am this event is helping his campaign. Give as often -- and as much -- as you can. We need to make Jay Kim the first Korean elected to the United States Congress. // People like these show why "Korean" is not just a name. It's a way of life. It means respect for law. My Administration 4 will not rest until we have helped any business harmed by the Los Angeles and Chicago riots. / It means love of family. The family is America's umbilical cord: Our policies must strengthen -- not weaken -- it. / "Korean" means creativity, too: You know government should reward work -- not penalize it. / I'm impressed by the fact that Koreans invented the wheelchair, moveable type, armored warships, and taekwondo. ( (Maybe I should sick Jhroon Ree on Congress. )) / I sometimes wonder what might have happened had the Wright Brothers been forced to wait for government approval before testing their flying machine. If they had, I might have come here by steamboat, not Air Force One. / The reason Korean-Americans are Republican is that we embrace these values: We know prosperity doesn't depend on the size of government -- but on the size of your dreams. / We back freedom at home. We have fought for it abroad. It's been said that "one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. " / Well, today America is opening a road I hope will lead to democracy and human rights not just in South Korea but north of the 38th Parallel. A road of security and economic development. And to the reunification of the country you love. To some extent, our modern relations with Korea date from the brutal invasion of the South by the Communists in 1950. I know many of you recall that event. I recall it, too. I remember your suffering and sacrifice. Remember how -- as we did last year in Kuwait -- it was the United States that successfully mobilized international resistance to the invasion. // 5 Then -- with the generosity distinctive of America -- we extended an open hand -- and met Korea's open heart. / We rebuilt a country / began a partnership that endures / and committed America to a Korea both safe and free. / Yes, the threat from the North still lingers. We are worried about the potential North Korean nuclear threat. That is why we have told Pyongyang: Remember Saddam -- aggression will not stand. / I am hopeful about the future. I know for sure that we will work, with our allies in Seoul, to reduce North-South tensions / to end North Korea's isolation / and to unite the 10 million Korean families now separated for 40 years. // It is obscene that Korea is the only country still divided since World War II. I look forward to being the first American President to stand on reunited Korean soil. // And I believe it will happen -- for I know what we have achieved in the last 3 and 1/2 years. In Berlin, a wall collapses. From Kuwait to Panama, those once enslaved are now free. Today, Imperial Communism is not just E-V-I-L -- as Ronald Reagan predicted. It is D-E-A-D. If its tyranny can crumble -- so can the 38th Parallel. // Freedom abroad. Freedom at home. It all comes back to principles. Love of liberty, and opportunity. Belief in the family. Belief in God. / Koreans share these values -- as does the Republican Party -- as does my Administration. And we always will. // 6 On November 3, we can uphold these values -- and carry them to the Nation. Thank you for your kindness, and your support. God bless you -- and the United States of America. # # # # White House News Summary Friday, September 18, 1992 2:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE WEAPONS TESTING/SENATE (AP) -- Taking aim at President Bush's policy on nuclear weapons testing, the Senate voted to curb the underground explosions and to end them entirely four years from now. Senators voted 55-40 for a plan pushed by Sens. Hatfield, Exon, and Mitchell, that has drawn strong protests from the White House. The plan would place a nine-month moratorium on nuclear weapons tests beginning next month, put strict limits on subsequent tests, then impose a total ban beginning Oct. 1, 1996. The ban would be waived if Russia resumes testing after that date. CHENEY/NO-FLY ZONE (London/Reuter) -- Secretary Cheney cautioned against speculation that Western powers were ready to enforce a no- fly zone over Bosnia-Hercegovina, calling it a "sideshow" that could do little to end the civil war there. "There is a lot of interest and talk about a no-fly zone, but it is a bit of a sideshow compared to the bigger problem" of how to bring a political solution to the bloodshed in former Yugoslavia, Cheney said. In an interview with newspaper executives and reporters Cheney suggested strongly that any decision on how to enforce a no- fly zone, which has not been declared by the U.N., was not close because of preoccupation in Britain with a domestic economic crisis and in France with Sunday's vote on European unity. NAFTA (Reuter) -- A U.S. trade official said President Bush may formally notify Congress as early as Friday of the signing of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement. That would launch the 90-day period for Congress to help prepare legislation on the pact, the official said. "If Bush is re-elected, it would probably be May or June before they vote on it, and if he's not it would probably take longer," a Senate aide said. GONZALEZ/ETHICS (AP) -- The House refused to demand an ethics investigation of Rep. Gonzalez for revealing classified information on the Bush Administration's prewar dealings with Iraq. By a 216- 150 vote on straight party lines, the House tabled a resolution by Rep. Combest, to request an ethics committee investigation of Gonzalez. NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR (Seoul/AP) -- International inspections indicate the threat from North Korean nuclear development is less ominous than feared a year ago, U.S. Amb. Donald Gregg said in comments that could ease tensions. "It is now clear from what we have learned from the IAEA inspections that whatever it was that the North Koreans were doing in terms of a nuclear program, it was not as advanced as we feared," Gregg told the Korean Newspaper Editors Association. CLINTON/PBS (AP) -- Eight minutes of remarks by Bill Clinton have been cut from a television special on black and Hispanic voters because President Bush would not appear, PBS said. Jennifer Lawson, executive vice president for programming, said Clinton's remarks had not been well integrated into the program and that one candidate without the other on the special would be inappropriate. The special is part of a two-part program titled "Voices of the Electorate." ### PHU WENDY LEE GRAMM- WIFE OF SEN. GRAMM am commonities ERCITADE FUTURES TRADING CURDY DOBB UTTER OF Form ZONG HOWELL 12013 Joon Rhee mgram (POL) be there polis My his her Radio Koven JANG LEE OWNER Prins met hin devastation he san CA/MY Sam LEE olypin gohl model (52?) gm. his. L mooty E Cont / "brows comg spirt com have mtg in Kores Studio A butcher paper - 1 coren slons burnd doun spring spint cand transport ? HELEN Rms my And ROT Style manane 2 in 92 may specit droped to know usnan crowd grbbhel (crus thank 4 com G wathing out Jay Ckim unite Korea une S.o.k tweship more comm. regin collged und own weght -Mand of yrs go Mot don yet Micess E Enroys change from asia "douh an efforts- Last Combres/ Chri stunch agut commin Al D'Amato Lbithive into Pain Jay kim- Lb there to speak Mayor of Diamond Bar, Ca, distolist Orage/LA over 50% Rep. distint Sm open seat Dem out work -Cook 4a job to 50's busing men Jay him Enginers laong. Ney Buit (May 7) )992) Notes: The Korean-American community is, overall, economically cohesive and strong. It is intensely Christian. Still largely a first generation group on the East Coast, its second generation (and sometimes third) is now in universities or beginning careers. It remains interested in Korean politics, but its "loyalties" are split between Roh's ruling party and the opposition, with the edge going to the latter. The community's confidence in its future was shaken badly by the LA riot, but seems to be gradually returning. There is interest in peninsular unification and security issues, but this is not as intense as it sometimes appears. We get far more letters on human rights issues, for instance. The interests of the Korean- American community can probably be ranked as follows: its own financial security and well-being, especially with regard to its ability to provide a top-quality education to its children; its safety (crime) ; Korean economic development; Korean democracy and human rights; Korean security; peaceful unification. Suggested points: -- THANK YOU THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. -- IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU ALL HERE, AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW IMPRESSIVE AND ENCOURAGING THIS FINE TURNOUT IS. -- I WANT TO THANK THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS DINNER FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO STOP BY AND TELL YOU HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE TO ME AND TO OUR COUNTRY. -- WE HAVE GREAT PLANS FOR THIS COUNTRY -- BUT WE ALL HAVE A LOT OF WORK AHEAD TO MAKE OUR CITIES SAFER AND OUR SCHOOLS JUST AS EXCELLENT AS I KNOW THEY CAN BE. -- WITH YOUR HELP, I KNOW WE CAN DO IT. -- JUST A WORD NOW ABOUT ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT IS SPECIAL TO EACH OF YOU AND TO ME, TOO: KOREA. NEED TO MENTON SYMPATHY FOR ICOREAN-AMERICAN VICTIMS OF LA RIOTS AND CHICAGO - -- TO SOME EXTENT, OUR MODERN RELATIONS WITH KOREA START FROM THE BRUTAL, SURPRISE INVASION OF THE SOUTH BY THE COMMUNISTS IN 1950. I KNOW THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN EVENT. THIS ROOM HAVE FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE OF THAT DEFINING NO ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU THE SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE ENDURED BY THE KOREAN PEOPLE. AND, OF COURSE, AS WE DID LAST YEAR IN KUWAIT, IT WAS THE UNITED STATES THAT SUCCESSFULLY INVASION. MOBILIZED INTERNATIONAL RESISTANCE TO THE THEN, WITH THE HELPING HAND THAT IS ALMOST UNIQUE TO AMERICA, WE HELPED IN THE REBUILDING OF A WAR-TORN KOREA. THAT EFFORT DIRECTLY LED TO THE VIBRANT PARTNERSHIP OUR TWO COUNTRIES ENJOY TODAY. AND YES, OUR SECURITY RELATIONS CONTINUE TO BE A CORNERSTONE OF THAT PARTNERSHIP. THE THREAT FROM THE NORTH HAS NOT, UNFORTUNATELY, DISAPPEARED OVER THE INTERVENING FOUR DECADES. IN FACT, THE ADDITION OF A POTENTIAL NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ELEMENT FORCED THE U.S. AND KOREA INTO AN EVEN CLOSER PARTNERSHIP. OUR TWO GOVERNMENTS WORKED CLOSELY TO MEET THAT THREAT. AND WHILE WE MAY NOT BE COMPLETELY CERTAIN OF THE OUTCOME FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER, IF EVER, WE APPEAR TO HAVE SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING PYONGYANG TO DECIDE NOT TO GO DOWN THAT DANGEROUS PATH. -- THE ALTERNATIVE PATH, TO A GENUINE REDUCTION OF NORTH- SOUTH TENSIONS AND AN END TO NORTH KOREA'S ISOLATION, MAY BE LONG AND DIFFICULT. BUT WE ARE GOING TO KEEP WORKING, WITH OUR ALLIES IN SEOUL, FOR THAT OUTCOME. CURT 2772 MR. 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Seoul, Korea 250, -000 Koreans Sec. pres. take a lead for humanitarian purposes real to say something ab unification of Korea - implement family reunions send back the MAS 8,000 missing am. foreyn polin Considers Kovea) Nuclear insputions one country or 2 county go or to come Nkn to Cany David what to make 0 1 how who deal w/o Novea My X CS, since WWIII ( Tvas in Houston 1 @ convention accuptance ) speech go to Cuba - (Pree) visit Megest if OK - + unification yeary 4 force int unficator 1 KOVIA 1 David/kin 309-543-6189 Tuny 1 Brad Edgar site lead @ Wardorf (Park Avenue) Ballroom 50th UM brief VIP Photo-opp Cork BEEF ballroom 250 Kovear Am remale community leaders deep pot - middle of Closed press Abigal 242-713-2865) Perman Vkt 92 table Friend w/ broth Sen. D'Amutor (SHIN so Low )pot ack - 1-800-SKY-PRE 8111-2529 electri frying pan Am. 630 pm Stir fuy :( meat, meat but maremated Steak Bulgogge - rounded (Broadruay 20 5 blocks blocks down away fils overa Hame thin tengahi beef / Kim cm 1 w/rice mannated garhi, salt, hot pepper labbage Abigail Pearman Jay CKIM - 1 ( 7140 Clayton Fong Kowar America 250 info Tim HECHT 6510 NY EVENT * large rep. of gament indutry small his (- Other korean success stries) mianst m/f ) from all accross country 1 AAA wang China - Korean Pres. in town will not be muth 1 Henry Tamg Chna there - Dr. Kristy yamagrah , Japanese - -Leo Asaki Japan ( example of korean inventions) 5 leading in Koreans Cos invented country PAGE 1 (c) 1988, The Boston Globe, September 18, 1988 But they're impressive in the combative sports - boxing, judo, wrestling and taekwondo, the hand-and-foot martial art the Koreans invented 2,000 years ago. They could win boxing golds in both the light Flyweight (Oh Kwang-Soo) and flyweight classes, and Joe wants you to call him re. BioGraphy of WENDY. 254-8630 grandparents imaginated gtater havvest fo. To Aawan from kona b/c VP- of Snger co- now she Chr. of comn. - regulates time shy amist inclu Ha. Shyarcare LEVEL 1 - 10 OF 21 STORIES Copyright (c) 1988 Globe Newspaper Company; The Boston Globe September 16, 1988, Friday, City Edition SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 56 LENGTH: 118 words HEADLINE: SUMMER OLYMPICS / SEOUL '88; TAEKWONDO OVERVIEW BYLINE: By John Powers, Globe Staff BODY: Koreans invented taekwondo - roughly a third of the residents of the South have achieved the black belt - and they'll dominate the awards stand, where they figure to win TM TM TM LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS·NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 7 12TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright 1987 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved Fortune March 16, 1987, Domestic Edition SECTION: COMPETITION; Pg. 72 LENGTH: 3682 words HEADLINE: KOREA'S BIG PUSH HAS JUST BEGUN BYLINE: by Louis Kraar; REPORTER ASSOCIATE Alan Farnham BODY: AS YOU DOUBTLESS have noticed on shopping trips, South Korea has burst into U.S. markets like a hungry tiger. The Koreans are underpricing the Japanese on everything from steel to TVs, VCRs, cars, and computers. A Goldstar VCR goes for as little as $200, about $50 less than the cheapest rival from Japan. The sporty Hyundai Excel, at a base price of $5, 195, induces reverse sticker shock. A flood of cheap IBM PC clones has swamped both IBM and Japanese imports. And Korea makes steel for $23 in labor costs per metric ton, compared with $132 in Japan and $164 in the U.S. What's more, the big push has just begun. Korean automakers are gearing up to export more than a million cars within four years, mainly to North America. In consumer electronics the Koreans are out to triple world market share to nearly 7% by the year 2000. (They already have 17% of the American color TV market.) Manufacturers of VCRs and microwave ovens are pushing into semiconductors. IBM, among others, is already buying Korean memory chips. Their success so far has surprised even the cocky Koreans. Exports surged 18% in 1986 to a record $36 billion, giving the country a $3.5-billion trade surplus, its first in modern times. Economic growth, which slipped a bit in 1985, is back on a fast track. Koreans are dreaming of transforming their small country into an advanced industrial power, a mini-West Germany with a standard of living as high as any in Western Europe. It is not an impossible goal. If South Korea, with 41.5 million people, were a European nation, it would rank just behind France in population. At $2,300 a year, per capita income already about equals that of Portugal. But some large clouds are drifting over this sunny landscape. Korea's strategy of high growth driven by exports has already provoked a protectionist backlash in Washington and the European Economic Community. At home demonstrators are fitfully trying to replace an unpopular authoritarian regime with a more representative government. President Chun Doo Hwan, 55, has promised to step down before the 1988 Olympics. But he keeps sending head-cracking police into crowds of protesters who don't like the way he proposes to do it: parliamentary elections rather than a direct presidential vote. Korea has never had a peaceful transfer of power. When Chun, an army general, took over in a coup in 1980, the turmoil clobbered the economy for a year. On top of all that, South Korea still faces an implacably hostile Communist regime to the north. Meanwhile, the economy rolls on. Only three decades ago South Korea was a war-scarred land of mostly poor farmers. By borrowing to the hilt for investment Korea's $45-billion foreign debt rivals that of Latin America's champion LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 8 1987 Time Inc., Fortune, March 16, 1987 borrowers -- and by working longer hours than the Japanese, the Koreans created the most dynamic Asian economy after Japan's. Much of the country's competitive edge comes from a potent old culture: Koreans invented movable type before Gutenberg and introduced armored warships in the 16th century: Though restive for political change, the country's people are steeped in Confucian respect for authority, passionate about education, and boundlessly ambitious. Highly motivated workers - including many macho youths who shun protective goggles while welding - put in long hours for a fraction of the pay their counterparts get in the U.S. or Japan. Labor costs for auto workers, for example, total about $3 an hour, V5. $18 in Japan and $24 in the U.S. The big conglomerates such as Hyundai and Daewoo, called chaebol , rank among the largest manufacturing companies in the world. An American business executive in Seoul says with only slight hyperbole, "The whole country, in effect, is one organization and runs on government-controlled credit. To create jobs and service the national debt, companies have got to grow." KOREANS SEE the Seoul Olympics as a showcase for their rapid progress. The Tokyo games in 1964 served a similar purpose for a resurging Japan. "The Olympics will show what kind of country this is," says Koo Cha-Hak, 56, chairman of Lucky Goldstar Group. Then he adds, "And the games will improve the brand image of our products." While in the global spotlight next year, Korea intends to launch a national pension plan and a minimum wage system. Within 13 years, according to a detailed development plan, Korea is determined to be among the world's ten largest trading nations, up from 13th now. Much of the economy's recent bounce comes from what Korean leaders call the three blessings - lower oil prices, lower worldwide interest rates, and a currency that is weak against the Japanese yen. The Korean won is tied roughly to a basket of world currencies, though the finance ministry won't say which ones. Obviously there are a lot of dollars bouncing around in the basket; when the dollar plummeted against the yen, the won went down too. Since September 1985 the won has dropped about 40% against the yen, giving Korea a huge advantage over Japan in the U.S. market. The Koreans made the most of it, pouring 40% of their exports into America. When the U.S. responded with tough protectionist talk, they professed to be surprised - and hurt. Koreans are emotional about trade issues. They still see themselves as relatively poor dependents of the U.S. and take American protectionism personally - as one U.S. businessman puts it, "like betrayal by a big brother.' The Koreans have a point. Their economy is only 6% of Japan's. Skyscrapers in Seoul resemble those in Tokyo, but the Korean capital is still laced with narrow lanes and humble cottages like a village. In the countryside some 20% of homes lack running water. Moreover, Korea has a heavy defense burden (6% of its GNP VS. about 1% in Japan) as well as that big foreign debt. And Korea has stumbled before. In the 1970s the government subsidized heavy industry, creating some costly white elephants. The treasury is still quietly supporting a $5-billion bailout of ailing shipping and overseas construction firms. As one technocrat admits, "The government has not been good at picking winning industries." Koreans are also quick to point out that their $7.1-billion trade surplus with the U.S. is just 4% of the total American trade deficit. Japan accounts for 35%. Says Nam Duck Woo, 62, chairman of the Korean Traders Association: "In TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 1 DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 1992 CLIENT: NEXIS LIBRARY: NEXIS FILE: OMNI YOUR SEARCH REQUEST IS: KOREAN INVENTIONS NUMBER OF STORIES FOUND WITH YOUR REQUEST THROUGH: LEVEL 1... 1 TM TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 2 1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright (c) 1988 Reuters October 14, 1988, Friday, PM cycle LENGTH: 372 words HEADLINE: INVENTORS FLAUNT WARES AT TOKYO GENIUS SHOW BYLINE: By James Kynge DATELINE: TOKYO, Oct 14 KEYWORD: JAPAN-INVENTOR BODY: Self-proclaimed geniuses from three continents converged here on Friday to flaunt inventions capable of everything from detecting fake money to silencing chronic snorers. Tokyo's second World Genius Convention unveiled a few gadgets for the first time and drew 46 inventors, some of whom said life was more fun beyond the realm of sanity than within it. Probably the greatest brain of them all was Japanese organizer Dr Yoshiro Nakamats who rented his esteemed colleagues their exhibition spaces for around $775 for the nine-day show, a spokesman said. Nakamats had no new brainchildren on show this year but he did relate a novel way of thinking - underwater. "It is a recent idea to do my thinking while swimming underwater," said Nakamats, who says he jots down memos on a waterproof pad. "It is like space, no gravity. There is more pressure so the blood goes to your head," added the lecturer at Japan's prestigious Tokyo University, who says he invented the floppy disc. Shin Kyun Suk, chairman of the Korean Invention Society, unveiled a pocket-sized gadget for detecting counterfiet banknotes. "It can verify notes From over 50 countries. It can do notes from all developed countries," he said. A red light goes on if the note is genuine, while a green light means it is a forgery, he says. Taiwan's Huang Chuan-Chih, who last year pioneered a talking toilet seat, displayed a new variation on that theme. This seat has a gadget to catch and test urine that is capable of instantly diagnosing a collection of kidney-related ailments, his assistant said. Mexico's Margarita Ponce, a poet who said it was fun to be a little bit crazy, was selling a tape of music and poetry designed to transform even the TM TM TM LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 3 (c) 1988 Reuters, October 14, 1988 creatively lame into poets, of sorts. Most inventors had a gimlet eye for business. Japan's Nichimen Corporation said a U.S. store had ordered 100,000 of its anti-snoring pillows. "It completely stops snoring with 95 percent of people," said George Sekiya, Nichimen's sales adviser. The pillow rocks gently from side to side when a microphone picks up a succession of grunts. That cures snoring, said Sekiya. But the invention is powerless against unruly sleepers who discard their pillows in the night. TM TM TM LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 4 DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 1992 CLIENT: NEXIS LIBRARY: NEXIS FILE: OMNI YOUR SEARCH REQUEST IS: KOREAN INVENT! NUMBER OF STORIES FOUND WITH YOUR REQUEST THROUGH: LEVEL 1 21 TM TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 6 (c) 1988 The New York Times, February 10, 1988 To carve out its niche, Alenax now plans to emphasize the transbar as a fitness bicycle - less stress on the knees, better exercise of certain muscles. With that in mind, the company has begun searching for an academic expert to validate the fitness claims about the transbar system. GRAPHIC: Diagram showing who the transbar power system works SUBJECT: BICYCLES AND BICYCLING; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR ORGANIZATION: ALENAX CORP NAME: STOCKTON, WILLIAM TITLE: BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PAGE (NYT) TM TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS:NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 5 11TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright (c) 1988 The New York Times Company; The New York Times February 10, 1988, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition SECTION: Section D; Page 8, Column 4; Financial Desk LENGTH: 426 words HEADLINE: Advances; A Bicycle Easy to Ride, Hard to Sell BYLINE: By WILLIAM STOCKTON BODY: FOR more than a century, people have been propelling bicycles by pushing pedals round and round so that a gear turns a chain connected to a wheel. This system is, to say the least, an example of an entrenched technology, something that works well and that most people see no need to change. The Alenax Corporation has been painfully learning about entrenched technologies in recent years as it tries to market a bicycle with a new concept - a design that involves pushing pedals up and down. Its transbar system has not taken the world by storm, as the company had hoped five years ago when it was formed. ''Deep down, most people are conservative, said Richard Chey, Alenax's head of sales and marketing. 'We've learned just how hard it is to take something and say that it's better than what has been around for a hundred years or more. At first glance, the mechanically minded can see the transbar system's simplicity and potential advantages. As one foot pushes a pedal downward, the other pedal rises, ready for another downward stroke. Each pedal is connected by a separate chain to the hub on the rear wheel. As the pedals seesaw, the chains propel the bicycle. Less motion From the legs is required and less energy is wasted in the new pedal system. The arms on which the pedals are mounted are longer, so the added leverage gives more power per stroke. The rider can choose to move the pedals through their full range, or seesaw them up and down only a few inches. The transbar idea was conceived 15 years ago by Marn T. Seol, a Korean inventor. He sold his idea to Byung D. Yim, a Korean entrepreneur, who brought it to the United States early in this decade. But despite determined marketing and a sheaf of enthusiastic news clippings spawned by the notion of a better mousetrap, Alenax has sold fewer than 5,000 of the machines, and Mr. Chey ruefully tells of the company's struggle to survive while trying to introduce what it is convinced is a better technology. Older and wiser now, Alenax speaks of the transbar system complementing the entrenched technology. ''We have to educate the consumer, Mr. Chey said. ''We want him to see that the conventional bicycle is good for many people, but that for others the transbar will be better. TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 20 20TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright (c) 1980 Reuters Ltd. December 5, 1980, Friday, BC cycle SECTION: International News LENGTH: 760 words BYLINE: By John Chadwick DATELINE: GENEVA KEYWORD: Inventions BODY: Does the self-extinguishing cigarette have a future? At least one man, South Korean inventor Lee Seong Yoo, believes SO. He thinks this may be the biggest thing to hit the smokers' market since the match. And like dozens of ideas men from all over the world who gathered for a sort of inventors' world congress here this week, Mr Lee also hopes his discovery will be just as profitable. How does the self-extinguishing cigarette work - and who needs it? These were the questions put to Mr Lee, a man of few words. He lit a cigarette and after taking a puff or two stubbed it out in an ordinary ashtray. He wrinkled his nose. "Dirty," he said. "Bad smell. When extinguished on ground, bad for nature. "This better," he added while lighting one of his own special cigarettes, inhaling twice and gently squeezing the filter. "Now feel ash," he invited. The ash was stone cold. The trick is a thin tube rolled from tobacco in the middle of the cigarette, through which a small jet of liquid is squeezed from a sack. Mr Lee says the machine needed to roll his cigarette costs 5,650 dollars and that his own country's tobacco industry already has taken up his idea. "Mr Lee not engineer," explained one of his smiling colleagues. "He is just simple inventor." The description seemed to fit many of the people around, who had stumbled into inventing almost by accident. Prizewinners at the international exhibition included a retired Australian Navy officer, a Swiss ex-civil servant, a former British parachutist and an Armenian guitar teacher. The only thing they have in common is their compulsion to dream up new gadgets, mainly for profit, but also for pleasure. There's everything here from a toilet for cats to a fearsome-looking machine capable of eviscerating 300 pigs an hour, a French invention that took the Grand Prix for 1980. TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 21 (c) 1980 Reuters Ltd., December 5, 1980 The inventor of popular legend is an absent-minded professor. The reality is more varied. Australia's bluff and cheery Pat Williams, for example, spent 40 years in the navy, designed an antisubmarine boom in 1944 and has been inventing ever since. He won a gold medal here two years ago for a revolutionary new metal nut, for which he still is bargaining over manufacturing rights. This year he won a special World Health Organization (WHO) award for his fiberglass stretcher. He also exhibited an adjustable ladder that you can stand on a staircase or steep slope, is easy to fix, cheap (about 20 dollars) and looks like a home handyman's dream. "I think of new discoveries in the middle of the night," he said. "I have to get up and write them down before I forget." His wife added: "I was getting woken up too often, so he invented something with which he could write in the dark." Ex-paratrooper John Harris was already a property tycoon in Britain when having his Rolls-Royce stolen made him remember a pub conversation with a "retired" car thief who told him: "There's a fortune waiting for the man who can stop our little game." The ex-thief said the best thing would be to mark all the car windows, which are extremely difficult and expensive to replace. Mr Harris' company developed a technique of airblasting registration numbers on the glass. The service now has become big business in Britain and after winning a silver medal here for security devices the company hopes to sell the rights profitably worldwide. In his English-cut tweed suit, genial John Russell looks the country squire rather than the inventor. But he won the gold medal in the environment protection class with his "airsweep" dust filter, a sort of enclosed fan which looks like a Scandinavian-style lamp and already is used in hospital operating theaters and pubs alike. Mr Russell, too, changed careers in middle age after spending most of his life in the animal health field. The one inventor who fully fits the classic pattern was nowhere to be seen, despite the admirers crowding around his minibicycle, which folds up without lifting it from the ground and can be hoisted with one hand into a car trunk or back seat. The Soviet delegation, exhibiting here for the first time, was also keenly interested in the same inventor's novel pump, with only three revolving parts, and hinted at large-scale purchases. But Russell John Searle had decided to go off to the Alps. A British colleague said: "He suddenly took off days ago, saying he couldn't be bothered. That's a brilliant little pump and the Russians are crazy about it. But that's the way he is. The original model of the English boffin." TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 14 14TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Proprietary to the United Press International 1986 May 5, 1986, Monday, BC cycle SECTION: Financial DISTRIBUTION: New York LENGTH: 96 words HEADLINE: New York Business Briefs DATELINE: ROCHESTER, N.Y. KEYWORD: Nybizbriefs BODY: Alenax Corp., which makes bicycles with a lever-propulsion system, said it won the Invention of the Year award at the International Invention Exposition in New York City for a new wheelchair. Unlike traditional wheelchairs, the Rochester firm's invention requires riders to push handles at the end of two levers to guide the machine. The wheelchair was designed by Korean inventor Man Seol, who also designed the Alenax transbar bicycle. Seol, now vice president of research and development for Alenax, lives in Taiwan, where the 3-year-old company assembles its bicycles. TM TM TM LEXIS:NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable PAGE 15 15TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright (c) 1985 Chicago Tribune Company; Chicago Tribune April 28, 1985, Sunday, FINAL EDITION SECTION: TRAVEL; Pg. 13; ZONE: C LENGTH: 1951 words HEADLINE: KOREA ALREADY CELEBRATING ITS 1988 OLYMPIC 'COMING OF AGE' BODY: No country confounds American business travelers more than Korea, which has risen to become important in international trade in the last decade. So we've prepared a short guide for the increasing number of business travelers headed for Korea. No sooner had it been announced (early in 1983) that Seoul was the choice for the 1988 Summer Olympics than Club '88 and like-named bars sprang up almost spontaneously across the city. In the 2 1/2 years since, popular enthusiasm and official support for the Games have not waned one iota. In a city and country that overcame nearly total devastation during the Korean War (which ended in 1953) to become a world leader in shipbuilding, textiles, electronics, automobile work, petrochemicals, machinery manufacturing and more, the games are viewed as quasi-official recognition of world status. Seoul views 1988 as the date of its coming-of-age party. So right now, most of what is going on in this city of 10 million, the world's sixth largest metropolis, is directly related to feverish preparations for the Games. Seoul is spending $1.6 billion on facilities for competition, housing and training, and another $1.35 billion on improving the city's sanitation, communication and transportation systems. Add extensive hotel construction, new park land and improvements at the airport and you get an idea of the intense excitement the Olympics has created. Seoul is a city ready for world attention, and every visitor benefits. DOING BUSINESS Although Koreans are probably the most "Westernized" businesspeople in the Orient, certain formalities still pertain. Introductions include handshaking and the immediate exchange of business cards (preferably printed in both English and Korean). A Korean businessman is not to be addressed by his first name; use his surname plus either "Mr." or his business title "Director," "Deputy Manager," "Professor," etc. Koreans prefer this partly because their strictly structured society pays close attention to the status imparted by titles and partly because it lessens confusion in a nation where half the population has the surname of Kim, Lee or Park. Surnames, incidentally, come first in Korean; the president of Korea is Chun Doo Hwan, known as President Chun. TM LEXIS·NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® LEXIS-NEXIS® Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. Recyclable 794 May 7 / Administration of George Bush, 1992 Administration of C tion didn't go over, we still can go through very day, 200 to be trained; 180 of the 200, lators that help W the civil rights bill. The streets didn't have I'm told, are CPA's willing to pitch in to help course, once agair that knowledge. They felt that they had hit do what's necessary to reconstruct. because the com: a blank wall and nothing else could happen. I look at this in a very broad sense not that. I just have We need a blue ribbon committee to help only in the sense, in terms of families that volunteer sense. 7 you to point out-and we have the minds were hurt but in terms of international. I you how much I throughout this country-to point out what think most people here will concede and re- has done. I happe does Jack Kemp have. They think he has just joice in the fact that we have good relations boss. But I will sir trillions of dollars that he's sitting on and with Korea, something I take great pride in, Korea for the su won't let go. They think Sullivan has a total incidentally. been given to the gold mine and won't let the lever up, and I think people in Korea share the same pride that this stat that creates tension. We need a top non- hurt that all of us do when they look and to others what tl political blue ribbon committee to address- see this community of enterprising individ- munity stands for. the number one issue, besides salvation, in uals that remind us being here what some grateful to you, sir this Nation right now is race relations. And 25 years ago, some more recently, got in, as lifeline in a ser I don't see it getting better until something grabbed a piece of the American dream, and A couple of peoj gigantic speaks to it and show that we prob- built something. To see it shattered is not walking in. ably have enough laws; we probably have the American way. And I will do everything Two immediate enough money; we probably have enough of I can to show our friends abroad as well as to hear from you this, but we've got to see that it's there and here that it's not the American way. And with sure that while I get it out. that in mind, it means I want to help. It priority. Two imn And I just reiterate that again. And thank means the Federal Government is prepared will the Governi you for coming to Mount Zion Missionary to help in every way we possibly can. speedy economic Baptist Church. I want to go back to the volunteer concept do to ease the av that I mentioned a minute ago. That is also about it in a ch Note: The exchange began at 9:30 a.m. at part of the American way. I'm sure it's part Hill's church. I t Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. A of the Korean way as well. But when you be concerned abc tape was not available for verification of the see one American reaching out for another content of these remarks. I want you to in times of hardship, that is one of the things L.A. is on the m I think is very precious about our society. not a local situat And the spirit of those volunteers out there, is not something it's amazing. One of them actually hit me up ment that'll be f Remarks and Exchange With for a little donation. [Laughter] I might say tinue to strive fo. Leaders of the Korean Community in I understood perfectly, and in a modest way elimination of di Los Angeles was able to contribute to this volunteer sec- curs in this cou: May 7, 1992 tor. course, that the Let me just go into a couple of problems. back in school, ar The President. Are you going to say some- This has been a command center. I under- But now we nee thing or do you want me to go ahead? Let stand that some in the community were un- rebuilding effort me just say thank you to the community lead- happy by the location of the disaster relief I have signed ers assembled here. And let me single out center. And by early next week, that unhappi- a declaration, a Mr. Lee for his hospitality not just to us ness should give way because we are going directed FEMA today, to Secretary Sullivan, the Governor, to have a new acceptable location to serve Management Ag Senator Seymour, Secretary Kemp, Pat Saiki the needs of the community. And I under- Small Business of SBA, but to so many. stand that not having forms in Korean is a This place has become not just a command ably heads, to F problem, and now there's efforts going on to the victimized center in times of turmoil, turmoil that every to be sure that those forms are printed in American regrets. This President, I'll tell you, questions, can a way that can be understood in Korean so detail there. But my heart aches for those who have lost their they can be understood by the small family at this time. jobs. But this community is strong. I wish operators that have suffered because of these FEMA is pr all you guys would walk-maybe you've been uncontrolled forces. needs such as f there and seen the volunteers in the next We also realize that translators are a prob- cine, for minor building. It's unbelievable, 200 out there this lem, and we are working to provide trans- ployment assist. of George Bush, 1992 Administration of George Bush, 1992 / May 7 795 ned; 180 of the 200, lators that help with disaster relief. And of without jobs. Even though they have their ng to pitch in to help course, once again I salute the community, own businesses, some are without work be- construct. because the community is doing some of cause those businesses were destroyed. We cry broad sense not rms of families that that. I just have noticed that in here in a have an 800 assistance number that will also S of international. I volunteer sense. There is no way I can tell receive calls in six languages. The Korean will concede and re- you how much I respect what Radio Korea community took it on the chin the most, I has done. I happen. to be sitting next to its think. Others are hurting, too. So we, the have good relations boss. But I will simply say we applaud Radio Federal Government, Governor Wilson, and take great pride in, Korea for the support that has constantly the Mayor are trying to respond as best we rea share the same been given to the Korean community, the can to all the hurt out there. The SBA is when they look and pride that this station reflects when it brings also making disaster loans available for busi- enterprising individ- to others what the Korean-American com- ness losses, for home damage. Those loans could total over $300 million. All told, the .ng here what some munity stands for. It is wonderful, and we're re recently, got in, grateful to you, sir. And I think you've acted Federal aid to Los Angeles and the surround- merican dream, and as lifeline in a sense in this tragic situation. ing areas here could run in the range of about : it shattered is not A couple of people told me that as I was $600 million. walking in. Again, I am delighted to have this oppor- I will do everything is abroad as well as Two immediate concerns, and then I want tunity to come here. And I just hope you erican way. And with to hear from you the priorities. I want to be will tell those who are hurting that, one, we I want to help. It sure that while I'm here I don't overlook a care, and two, we are trying our level-best priority. Two immediate concerns are: What to heal those wounds, to get people back on ernment is prepared will the Government do to bring about a their feet again. Because when I think of ossibly can. e volunteer concept speedy economic recovery, and what can we what this country needs, it's more small busi- ate ago. That is also do to ease the awful racial tension? I spoke nesses, it's more entrepreneurs, people that 1y. I'm sure it's part about it in a church today, Reverend E.V. will come here and take a risk and hopefully Hill's church. I think all Americans have to earn their share of what we think of as the well. But when you ing out for another be concerned about both those points. American dream. I want you to know that the situation in I know that this American dream is still is one of the things about our society. L.A. is on the minds of all Americans. It is real. I'm sure to a businessman, a wife and not a local situation. What's happened here a husband, for example, whose business has olunteers out there, n actually hit me up is not something that we saw for an ugly mo- been closed and brutalized and ruined, we hughter] I might say ment that'll be forgotten. We've got to con- might wonder: Well, what's it all about? and in a modest way tinue to strive for racial harmony and for the What does this mean? We have got, you and ) this volunteer sec- elimination of discrimination wherever it oc- I-maybe you all can do it best-is to con- curs in this country. And I am thankful, of vince those people that are hurting that the course, that the streets are safer, with kids American dream is the rule. And the rule couple of problems. nd center. I under- back in school, and businesses are reopening. we build will be a part of helping you. ommunity were un- But now we need to concentrate on a major So that's what I wanted to say. And David, of the disaster rélief rebuilding effort. I'd love to hear from members of the com- week, that unhappi- I have signed, as I'm sure you all know, munity and what you think we might do to cause we are going a declaration, a disaster declaration, having assist. But we care very, very much. And as le location to serve directed FEMA, the Federal Emergency I say, I want to be the President to take the unity. And I under- Management Agency, and Mrs. Saiki and the signal out around, back to Korea itself, and arms in Korean is a Small Business Administration that she so say: Look, people got hurt in my country, e's efforts going on ably heads, to provide immediate assistance good people, good citizens. But we're going orms are printed in to the victimized parties. Pat can answer your to make them whole, and we're going to give rstood in Korean so questions, can give you much more of the them some hope. it is a very important Agency So now, I don't know what the schedule by the small family red because of these is roviding grants for personal Mr. David Kim. Open for questions and inslators are a prob- food and clothing and medi- comments. g to provide trans- or home damage, and unem- The President. Fire away. stance to those who are now Mr. John Lim. Is it my turn? 796 May 7 / Administration of George Bush, 1992 Administration of G The President. Yes. Mr. Yang Il Kim. Mr. President, my name The President. Mr. Lim. Mr. President, my name is John is Yang Kim. I'm the President of the Na- one by saying I'm Lim. I'm the president of the Korean Amer- tional Korean American Grocers Association. pledged to move it ican Bar Association of Southern California. We have 18,000 members across our 25 somebody to tell me The essence of our message is quite simple: States. Even Los Angeles is a disaster area- But I know there's The Federal Government has the affirmative Seattle, Washington State, Philadelphia, and the first. I have this duty to make the Korean-American victims Baltimore, DC, and New York, too. I should change it. But you heard. It has the highest responsibility to cry in front of you on behalf of all of our building? make sure that these victims are redressed victims. I'm one of the victims, too, my store Dr. Kee Wang completely. burned out. building. Next one a The traditional notion of disaster relief However, I have to give you my big smile The President. must. be suspended with respect to these vic- to you. The reason why, our President must and tell our FEMA tims. The disaster suffered by these victims be comfortable and relaxed. In 1988, you vis- Presidential Aid is not one that was caused by an earthquake, ited Chinatown. And we also, Korean com- working with you tc flood, or other acts of God. Such disasters munity endorsed you even now in 1992 per- tion. It is prematur are not caused by any level of government, sonally and our grocery industry of Korean it could be, but we W inevitable fact of life to which normal or tra- community endorsed you, too. And espe- The President. ditional method of relief is appropriate. cially, most of the news media told us Amer- Well, let's see wha The tragic event that the Korean-Ameri- ican dream is gone. But we want to keep it, if that's the gene cans have suffered is one for which the Fed- American dream. We want back our old— if everybody feels th eral Government must assume responsibility so I personally and all our victims ask you: Dr. Kay Song. over and beyond the degree of the disaster Would you please coordinate it, cooperate through radio. We caused by acts of God. If 400 years of oppres- with all the ethnic group, especially Afro- mobilize volunteers sion is what caused a riot, as many of the American community leaders and church to the radio station African-Americans' leaders say, the Korean- people and the Latinos' church and the peo- The President. American-victims are most certainly not re- ple and other ethnic groups. Your respon- tally, on one-stop sponsible, as the vast majority of us have sibility, your strong leadership is going to ferent point-we'v been here less than 25 years. have to be. We don't want it to break our The Federal Government's failure and in- Agencies out here, American dream, sir. That's what I wanted as simple as possible ability to address the oppression felt by the to ask you. David Kearns and- African-Americans must be viewed as the And also personally, we are not sure yet, to coordinate the I cause of this tragedy. Given that cause and our Reverend Jesse Jackson and our Korean given that this is not a natural disaster, the you for the commen grocery leaders will meet, Georgia, Atlanta, On the second Oi Federal Government must step up its efforts is coming May 15 or 16, 17. Also our Gov- the answer. We art over and beyond the relief effort traditionally ernor, Pete Wilson, we endorse you tra- deployed for earthquake and flood disaster. gress to move right: ditionally, grocery industry. Unfortunately, believe me, it will More specifically, the normal standards and you couldn't make a commitment without criteria cannot and should not govern the re- rean community. T your budget, but we need full consideration lief to these victims because such normal heard about all day too. Thank you so much, sir. That is my state- we've been advocat standards and criteria will give only partial ment. We're now talkin- relief. Such partial relief will be unfair and The President. Thank you for your state- will constitute gross injustice. zones. That concep ment. time has come. I'n Only total redress is acceptable in our Dr. Kee Wang Ha. My name is Kee Wang community. If nothing else, Mr. President, just in the last few Ha. I'm a cochairman of Korean Emergency please understand that the Federal Govern- have not supported Task Force. I have a true, simple question a time for blame ii ment has the affirmative and highest duty to that so far you have not made statement. One make the victims whole. I believe that this tion going. But I ca is, as you mentioned, whether you can set is the most important message from our com- up the FEMA office at these locations be- more optimistic, an munity. Unless this is understood and accept- cause we had already-going on. You con- to get it done. AI ed by the Federal Government, including the sider to set up one in another location in community is obvio of the action. Congress, the victims will never feel a part Koreatown. The second, how soon can we Mr. Edward Ch of this great Nation, a Nation for which they expect Federal enterprise zones in have come to fulfill their American dream. name is Edward Ch Koreatown? fessor at Cal Poly, F rge Bush, 1992 Administration of George Bush, 1992 / May 7 797 dent, my name The President. Let me answer the first The President. I'm sorry, I didn't hear. ent of the Na- one by saying I'm not sure. I know we are Professor where? ers Association. pledged to move it. I'm looking around for Mr. Edward Chang. Cal Poly. across our 25 somebody to tell me what has been decided. The President. Cal Poly, yes. disaster area- But I know there's been unhappiness with Mr. Edward Chang. I just would like to iladelphia, and the first. I have this statement saying we will make a quick statement and give you some k, too. I should change it. But you're saying, in this very questions. The Korean-American community If of all of our building? suffered from triple oppression. Number S, too, my store Dr. Kee Wang Ha. Not actually. Next one, they have suffered from property dam- building. Next one across the street. ages, 2,000 businesses totaling more than ou my big smile The President. Well, let me record that $350 million. Number two, they have felt a President must and tell our FEMA people who is--- sense of betrayal, abandonment, rage to- .n 1988, you vis- Presidential Aide. Sir, we're going to be wards American Government-has faith and o, Korean com- working with you to identify a suitable loca- trust. Number three, the mainstream media OW in 1992 per- tion. It is premature to know exactly where have distorted the issue as if this was Korean/ istry of Korean it could be, but we want to work closely. African-American issue. It's an issue of rac- too. And espe- The President. Right across the street. ism and poverty, and we need to make very ia told us Amer- Well, let's see what we can do to consider clear on that particular issue. e want to keep it, if that's the general feeling. I don't know So I have a couple of suggestions to Mr. back our old- if everybody feels that way. President. Number one, many of us believe victims ask you: Dr. Kay Song. We could communicate education is a way to move up. And many te it, cooperate through radio. We have to mobilize people, of our families who lost their businesses have especially Afro- mobilize volunteers, and we'd like to be close their children in universities. And they may ers and church to the radio station. We would like to have problems paying for their tuition. So, rch and the peo- The President. We're trying to. Inciden- is there a possibility of granting scholarships S. Your respon- tally, on one-stop shopping-slightly dif- or some kind of a loan to pay for their edu- ship is going to ferent point-we've got a lot of Federal cation? it to break our Agencies out here, and we want to have it Number two, is it possible to establish hot- S what I wanted as simple as possible. And that's why we have line with SBA office, direct hotline to the David Kearns and-out here, who are trying Korean-American community so if there are are not sure yet, to coordinate the Federal effort. But thank some problems, we can directly talk with and our Korean you for the comment. Miss Pat here so we can resolve the prob- Georgia, Atlanta, On the second one, I wish I could tell you lems? I think that's a critical-in my commu- 7. Also our Gov- the answer. We are going to urge the Con- ndorse you tra- gress to move right away on a legislation. And nity. believe me, it will certainly include the Ko- Number three, I would like to request that V. Unfortunately, mitment without rean community. This is a concept that I've you must waive some of the requirements, full consideration heard about all day long today. It's something waive the requirements which is very difficult for Korean-American merchants to come up That is my state- we've been advocating for a long, long time. We're now talking about the enterprise with some proper documentations. Now, I ou for your state- zones. That concept I think is an idea whose think that's the most critical element that you time has come. I'm seeing support publicly can do for us right now. Thank you very ame is Kee Wang just in the last few days from people who much. orean Emergency have not supported it. I have said this is not The President. Well, I'm waiving the re- simple question a time for blame in terms of getting legisla- quirements. I understand that some of the le statement. One tion going. But I can tell you, we feel much records are just going up in smoke, and ther you can set more optimistic, and we will be pushing hard therefore it's hard to have them. ese locations be- to get it done. And the Korean-American Mr. Edward Chang. That's right. ing on. You con- community is obviously going to have a piece The President. Fortunately, we do have other location in of the action. and would have access to the income tax re- how soon can we Mr. Edward Chang. Mr. President, my turns. So, there will be a way to verify a lot prise zones in name is Edward Chang. I'm an assistant pro- of the claims. So, we hope we can get around fessor at Cal Poly, Pomona. this rigid requirement on that one. 798 May 7 / Administration of George Bush, 1992 Administration 0 The SBA, I don't know on the hotline. I'll lem. We need some kinds of payments, you us in mind and 1 let Pat speak. We will have I think it is six know, support the car rental payment and will do our part in The Presiden offices, could not only respond for SBA but buy the gasoline, mortgage payments. I have Ms. Helen Li: put this in what we call a one-stop shopping another statement without envelope- approach where you have programs from Mr. Tong Soo Chung. Mr. President, my is not important don't feel we ar HUD, you've got programs from HHS, you name is Tong Soo Chung. I am a lawyer, do not know hov have programs from various different Agen- a partner of John Lim and founding presi- cies that can assist different parts of all of dent of Korean American Coalition. I also lot of people lost this. # years, twenty yea want you to know that you and I are alumnus, On the third one, we believe that our ap- the drain overnig having gone to Andover a few years later than who lost and do proach to education is a good one, America you did. 2000. And on scholarships, I don't know. Are They don't have The President. Never mind. [Laughter] you talking about a new scholarship pro- rent, car paymen Don't ask what class. gram? for 2 weeks, 3 y Mr. Tong Soo Chung. We are very happy Mr. Edward Chang. The individuals who of this so-called ( that you are here to discuss our concerns. have suffered the damage, the parents, the have to look at и But we are saddened that the occasion that Korean-American parents may be unable to tim like me, is CARL brought you here is not a happy one, that keep the education of their children. So can do anything. We you set aside some fundings for their chil- it took a disaster for you to come to visit us. Here we are dren? The various Government programs that ment agent will The President. Let me think about that you are undertaking are very needed. And promise. We ne one. I think we've got to be a little aware as John has spoken earlier, we need extra side, how many I assistance in this case because the disaster of the fact that there's a big demand for you, to tell you scholarship support all across the country. we're talking about here is really a manmade We were at the I But whether it can be done on a set-aside disaster and not a natural disaster. So to the treatment we rec basis, I just don't know how the law reads. extent that you can increase the grant portion the law enforcen But let me take a look. as opposed to a loan portion, that's the kind I've never seen Mr. Edward Chang. Please consider that. of help we need. The loan programs, the press, nothing of Mr. David Kim. Mr. President, my name waiting, the tough documentation, and other They're focusing is David Kim, Korean American Grocers As- requirements, that's the extra assistance that American, black sociation of California. I had a meeting with we need. with it. This cop- Mr. Peter Ueberroth this morning. We had But that will soon pass. What I would like So please, con a good conversation on how we're going to to ask you is that we are here to stay, and and their life is C rebuild this L.A. in the long term. And you we would like to do our part. And that means of loan we receive know, over 2,000 Korean family merchants full participation at all levels of government, is suffering. have nothing left. on the commissions and other appointments Thank you very that you have control over. I do understand The President Everything they worked so hard went up in smoke. We have no place from which we that you've made more appointments of Ko- if I might. I dor start anew. We need governmental assistance rean-Americans to high-level executive posi- has not been t. to survive. We need help to feed our chil- tions in the Government than the other pre- through can say dren, pull ourselves together again. We need vious Presidents, but we need more of that. know that. I belie you to help get governmental relief for living We need you, when you are dealing with the ment response i expenses as soon as possible. Thank you. private sector, to keep Korean-Americans in Bradley, I'm told The President. Thank you. Thank you, mind; that we want to do our part, so that fast. It may not David. On the food assistance, there are sub- as you interact with the private industry lead- is hurting stantial amounts of food coming in through ers to bring us in. Q. No, sir. our Department of Agriculture. I hope that's And Governor Wilson, over the last week The President arranged so it's fitting for the requirements or so, we have been working together on pay- was out here the that it will be distributed to. ment moratorium with the private banks and has already start Mr. David Kim. We have to buy the gaso- other institutions, and bridge loans, and that and I just wanted line and a lot of things, the payments and type of program. So even after this disaster I don't know a those kinds of things. You know, food, only is dealt with and even after the Government night. I know the we can get the ramen from Korea, no prob- program is done with, don't forget us. Keep shots fired at me