Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the stamina and spunk of these people," wrote Mrs. Lois Dean, of Washington, D.C. last week in a letter containing her contribution to the rebuilding of Pastor Ye Yun-Ho's church in Seoul. "Thanks a million for the good news that he is safe; we had been inquiring about him through the YMCA," was the way another reader...
Communist troops occupied Pyongyang yesterday, only eight hours after the U. N.'s rear guard left, despite heavy allied air attacks. The Eighth Army is reported to be stopping its southerly retreat somewhere below the 38th parallel, north of Seoul, and preparing to hold a line in the hills above the border...
...whitewings of Seoul (old women with brushwood brooms) swept the capital's main streets early one morning last week. Later, the tong-yang (block leaders) hustled out 100,000 residents to shout mansei and wave proper flags in welcome for UNCURK, the United Nations Commission on Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea...
...unification the U.N., in fact, did not see eye to eye with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. And Koreans differed angrily among themselves. Despite a U.N. order that Korea above the 38th parallel did not come under the Rhee government, Seoul still claimed jurisdiction, demanded elections north of the parallel...
...Twice the Assembly refused to ratify Rhee's choice for Prime Minister, amiable George Paik, a Protestant mission college president who had been Education Minister before the war. The resentment against Paik and his sponsor stemmed partly from the fact that both had rated an airlift escape from Seoul last June, while many ordinary Assemblymen had to stay behind and hide...