Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Edgar Baker, general manager of TIME-LIFE International, was in Tokyo last month on business, he heard from our Korean distributor J. H. Song for the first time since the Korean war began. Song and his family had survived "the Communist nightmare" by hiding in the outskirts of Seoul during the Communist occupation. Luckily the office of his company, the International Publicity League, had escaped destruction and pillage...
...much they succeeded in extorting depended largely on how serious U.S. commanders considered the Chinese threat. In the Pentagon there was a great deal of unmilitary handwringing, accompanied by woebegone predictions that the Chinese intended to barrel right on south to Seoul and perhaps to Pusan. In Korea, however, the view was changing somewhat. The serious U.N. supply difficulties looked less serious when Chinese prisoners reported that their food and ammunition had run low a few days after they had crossed the border...
...coordinated their attacks with Communist front-line activity. G.I.s had started calling the Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
Last June, when the Communists invaded the city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...
...Nowadays we have very great inflation in Seoul. We have to pay 200 won to 300 won for an apple ... So I think the expense to repair all will be an estimated 1,500,000 won (about...