Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are eight Army bands in Korea: six in the divisions, one in Pusan and one in Seoul. Until a few months ago, each band had from 65 to 100 men, but recently an order went out standardizing all bands at 42 enlisted men and one warrant officer to bring about "a better utilization of manpower." Even so, each band manages to organize three or four good combos to balance the military marches with plenty of Dixieland, bop and progressive jazz...
...Lost. Last week in a moldering, pagoda-roofed hall in Pusan, once used by Japanese occupiers as a wrestling arena, South Korea's National Assembly met to consider measures for halting the galloping inflation which has made a sad joke of wages and salaries. Diesel oil and kerosene fumes from six U.S. Army space heaters mingled with the heavy smell of garlic in the rear of the hall, where several hundred curious but impassive spectators watched the proceedings...
...supporters to storm the Assembly chamber. Aspirant Chang took refuge in a U.S. Army hospital. Rhee threatened to pull out a couple of ROK divisions from the line to back up his police, hesitated only when his good friend, Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet, flew to Pusan and told the President that this would mean an open rupture with the U.N. forces. When the Voice of America commented on his action, Rhee cut it off the air and invoked a censorship of news and publications. To an official note of protest from the U.S., he retorted: "I know...
...ricefield. For some the change was permanent: they are now entrenched with the Communist government in the north. But a few doubters elected to remain with Rhee's government and see what time would bring. During the past 18 months, those who remained have lost their doubts. In Pusan this week, in a coffee shop lighted by one feebly glowing electric light bulb, a reporter talked with a South Korean newspaperman who had planned originally to defect to the Communists, but who at the last minute had changed his mind. Critical of Rhee, protesting that...
...rate of one hwan for 100 won. Not more than 50,000 won (about $10) could be handed in by any individual at the first exchange; the rest would be exchanged later on terms not yet specified. Last week government teams quietly went out by boat and train from Pusan to stock the banks with the new money. Then a nine-day exchange period was proclaimed...