Word: suwon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern Korea, a peaceful country, the Russians are now training an army of at least 100,000 (TIME, May 19). In the South, TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans went recently to Suwon, a tidy, grass-roofed village set on a gentle slope south of Seoul, Korea's capital, and there, too, heard marching feet. Mydans wrote...
Centuries ago Suwon was a feudal city of Korea's kings. To keep out the marching feet of warlike neighbors, the kings surrounded it with a massive wall which ran crazily along the crest of the encircling hills. My guides were telling me a dreamy tale of how one king kept his pretty women in a palace over there and his plain women in a palace over on this side. Why he did this I never learned, for just then came a sound that I had learned too well -feet marching in military cadence to a martial song...