Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaky wooden table outside his shop on Seoul's crowded South Gate Road last week, a gold-toothed leather craftsman tacked a crudely lettered sign: "Be-cus no more fight, no more gun holster but al kine camera bag." Throughout war-torn South Korea, from the open-sewered streets of Pusan to the rice-rich fields just below the front lines, there were similar signs of economic stirrings...
...Seoul's crater-pocked streets," reported TIME Correspondent James Greenfield last week, "are filled with civilian cars and taxis again. Where they suddenly came from, nobody seems to know. Every afternoon Korean businessmen, shabby in their ill-fitting Western suits, gather in places like the Teahouse of the Opening Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing...
...Tokyo headquarters, Air Force General "Opie" Weyland raced up to him and asked breathlessly: "Got a hundred thousand bucks, Boss?" The general raised his eyebrows. General Weyland explained: a Russian-built, almost new MIG jet had just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...
...radio "hams" (his call letters: W9UG), Turner operates a mass-production listening post in a barn next to his suburban Northbrook home. With the help of a technician, three 35-foot directional antenna masts, eleven short-wave receivers (six are permanently tuned to catch Moscow, London, Paris, Seoul, Buenos Aires and Melbourne) and three tape recorders, he collects most of the short-wave signals aimed...
...much a hero in captivity as in battle, he came back to a hero's welcome. In the hush of a hospital ward at Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee decorated him with the Order of Taeguk, the government's highest military award. Old friends-officers and G.I.s who had fought beside him in the first dark days-clasped his hand and pounded his back. When the time came to begin the trip home to his wife, son, daughter and a grateful nation, the general wept softly...