Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacups & Christmas Trees. Fires were raging the length & breadth of Seoul, the result of vandalism, carelessness, or both. The Bon-Chong, the old black market, went up, and with it went at least three square blocks of ramshackle stores and dwellings. By 9 p.m. the fires were sending showers of sparks cascading down on the steel-shuttered U.S. Embassy and on the tile-roofed Chosun Hotel, where a South Korean flag hung limply in the cold. The hotel itself was completely deserted. The staff had fled during the day, and the building had the queerly disturbing air of a ghost...
...been in the Toyoda once before- last September, after Seoul was captured by United Nations forces. Then, the only occupant of the building had been a dead North Korean soldier who lay on the floor to the right of the entrance to the dining room. Now, in the same spot, an exhausted G.I. was grabbing a few minutes' sleep in front of a small stove...
...Chinese were well into the northwestern sector of Seoul. Baker Company of Mike Michaelis' ist Battalion was having a hot fight. The last frantic surge of refugees spewed forth across the ice of the frozen...
...roadside, a mile from Seoul, lay the frozen body of a barefooted little boy, face down in a tangled knot of abandoned telephone wire. Past his stiff, straight body moved a torrent of refugees, carrying whatever possessions they could balance on their heads or strap to their tired backs. Few glanced at the dead child; the sight was too common...
...They Just Don't Care." All week long before Seoul fell, the refugees poured day & night through the city, out across the Han River ice and south along frozen roads, railroad tracks and byways toward Pusan. Hoping that the retreating U.N. forces would still stop somewhere and give them protection from the Communists, more than 1,000,000 of Seoul's 1,200,000 people took to the road. Altogether, nearly 2,000,000 were moving across the countryside...