Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues of Feb. 16, 1948 (Religion) and May 24, 1948 (Publisher's Letter), TIME told the story of Ye Yun-Ho, a young Korean seminarian who was sketching among a jumble of packing cases on Seoul's city dump when he discovered that there were homeless children living in them. Presbyterian Ye Yun-Ho moved in among the packing cases, began to organize his first parish among the swarms of ragged dead-end kids of Seoul...
...Seoul, newsmen asked Rhee whether General MacArthur had tacitly agreed to the Republic's attempt to take power in North Korea. Said Rhee, with the aplomb of a veteran political poker player: "If he does not, he will let us know...
Soon after Seoul fell on Sept. 26, the U.S. 1st Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division which had made the landings at Inchon found themselves back on LSTs and assault transports. Reinforced by the newly arrived 3rd Infantry Division, they were slated to make another amphibious landing-this time at Wonsan on Korea's east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General...
Among the survivors was Pfc. Joseph Mistretta, 28, of Brockton, Mass., who said that about 250 American prisoners left Seoul on a forced march about Sept. 18. Said Mistretta: "Things began to get pretty bad then. They kept us moving in marches of 15 to 20 miles every day. Some of our buddies died every day. Those who couldn't keep up the march were shot or bayoneted. When a man began to stumble we always carried him along as far as we could but that usually wasn't far enough. I was put in with a group...
...forces had retaken the South Korean capital of Seoul...