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...midst of this political jockeying, life for American GIs in Seoul goes on. A group of us Harvard interns celebrated the 4th of July at Yongsan Army base, the headquarters of the U.S. military in Korea. We had expected a quintessentially American festival, but the one we got was also distinctly Korean. At Yongsan there were plenty of hamburgers and bratwurst, but the main attraction was a Korean pop concert featuring A-listers the Brown Eyed Girls and SG Wannabee. The crowd was a mix of Korean and American army families. The 8th Army Band featured both Korean and American...
...north, while to the south the Han River glitters on its way to the port of Incheon and the Yellow Sea. And just below, nestled in a sea of greenery, is a reminder of South Korea's unenviable honor as the final holdout in the Cold War: the Yongsan garrison, the joint headquarters of the United States Eighth Army and the United Nations Command for South Korea. If you're a North Korean spy forget it. The pay binoculars are fixed so Yongsan is out of view...
Parts of Seoul, inevitably, feel like suburbs of America. The streets of Itaewon, not far from the Yongsan garrison, are decorated in the U.S. Army- surplus style common to base cities around the world: country-and-western bars called Bonanza and Tennessee, the Las Vegas disco, a spit-and-polish row of Pizza Hut, Pizza Inn and Shakey's. And where there are servicemen, of course, there are service-industry women: in certain hands, Seoul's rowdiness can turn to raunchiness. The body trade flourishes in the G.I. bars of Itaewon, and the city's ubiquitous barbershops have little...
...Yongsan, Korea, handsome Master Sergeant Travis Watkins, 29, of Gladewater, Texas, took command of 30 infantrymen who had been cut off from their regiment, led them to a defensive position where they held out for four days under unremitting Communist attack. When ammunition ran low on Sept. 2, Watkins shot five North Koreans outside his perimeter, calmly left shelter to get their weapons and ammunition. Although wounded himself, he fired on six other Reds who threatened to enfilade the American position. His back was broken by enemy machine-gun fire, but he continued to fire until all six were killed...
Other casualties among correspondents in Korea last week were Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...