Word: kumchon
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...members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped in the act of tossing a box into the flames: "We are afraid the Rhee Liberals might be winning...
...Korea last week, U.S. quartermaster troops faced the problem of pleasing many armies and many stomachs. F-rations, based mainly on rice, were needed in the Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers...
Changing signals, Major General Hobart Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, converted his frontal assault to a three-pronged drive. One of his columns swung west of the highway, knifed in a sweeping end run to the railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...
...enveloping movement came off with textbook smoothness. By midweek the eastern and western prongs had closed on Kumchon. Trapped in the city and in the area south of it were nearly 20,000 North Korean troops. "They will not get out any tanks, guns or vehicles," promised...
Taking Trips. Nowhere else along the 200 miles of the semicircular U.N. front was North Korean resistance as stubborn as at Kumchon. On the 1st Cavalry's right flank, the 1st R.O.K. Division under able Major General Paik Sun Yap (TIME, July 24) raced ahead, aided by U.S. tanks and rockets from F-80s. Said trim, 30-year-old General Paik, "Now at least we have some tanks, too, and it is wonderful. My tactic is 'no stop.' " He added proudly, "Now we can be like General Patton...