Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spring moved north across the scarred face of Korea. Beyond Seoul, the forsythia was yellow and the trees were in leaf. At Panmunjom, the U.N. negotiators waited for some break in the wall of Communist obduracy; in the mud of the front lines, the soldiers waited their turn to go home. Thousands of Korean farmers could not wait. They moved north with the spring, a patient, hopeful tide, back to their own acres or to those of families wiped...
...voice crackled over his radio to his base near Seoul: "Gas too low to reach secondary target. Am returning to base." It was his last message. Two days later, after Air Force and Navy planes had searched in vain among North Korea's hills, the U.S. Fifth Air Force posted young Jim and his two crewmen "Missing in Action...
Director Joseph Lewis has deployed his cast efficiently in documenting the progress of a battalion from training at Camp Pendleton to the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul and the 1950 drive into North Korea when the marines, battling frostbite and the enemy, had to fall back to Hungnam harbor. But Director Lewis' leathernecks, marching from the halls of Hollywood to the shores of sentiment, are screen stencils rather than flesh & blood marines, and the result is formula heroics...
Housewifely Bustle. Food is still scarce and high in Seoul, and black markets thrive everywhere. When military police decided to check all vehicles entering Seoul on the chance that they might be stolen or contain stolen parts, a near famine resulted. All the truckers who had been carrying food into the city promptly hid their vehicles under the nearest hayrack, leaving Seoul to starve until the MPs cooled off. Last week, adulterated whisky was selling for $20 a bottle on Seoul's black markets. On the other hand, G.I. pants (worth $15) could be had for as little...
South Korea is still governed from the provisional capital at Pusan, but last week advance teams of government officers were in Seoul paving the way for an early return to the capital. A few unwelcome citizens were coming back too. Angry residents caught one enterprising Communist on the Han bridge with a supply of explosives and hanged him on the spot from the girders of the bridge he sought to destroy...