Word: koreanizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon showed a faint tip over the saw-toothed mountains that circle the walled Korean capital, feeble lights went on in Seoul's tiny, one-room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...second time since their arrival in Korea, Americans and Russians were meeting to discuss the establishment of a free Korean government-after the period of sin tak was over. Sin tak had a particularly ugly sound to Korean ears. Meaning both trusteeship and guardianship, it was used by the Japanese when they first muscled into Korea under cover of a "Treaty of Guardianship" after the Russo-Japanese...
...chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled out, the Communists who now run northern Korea would...
Trek Toward Freedom. Much as the Koreans liked this evidence that the Americans really cared, they liked better the arrival of U.S. supplies to rebuild their country's shattered economy. The Communist Korean Government in the north was having its own difficulties; its food supply was shorter than that in the south, its regime unpopular with many of the people. But it had a Russian-equipped army at least 100,000 strong, and it did not have to contend with the confused intrigue of 200 political parties as Hodge did in the south. Nevertheless, there was still a chance...
...Here is a teacher, a tall young Korean in a threadbare suit, whose Christian faith has given him courage to have doubts about Communism. Here are some ill-dressed students who feared conscription (men 19 to 25) into the Korean Communist Army. Here is a round-faced child of two, shoeless, sitting between the ties of the old railroad track. Her sad-eyed mother wearily joggles the baby on her back, then pulls the child to her feet and shuffles along the track with the other refugees going south...