Letter from Seoul: Return to Korea

LETTER FROM SEOUL

They are coming back to South Korea these days, the American veterans of the Korean War—men in their fifties now, or older, with grey hair and perceptible paunches—to see what has happened to the country in the past three decades. The government of the Republic of Korea encourages them with package tours and special attentions, because it thinks it has a great story to tell and knows that nobody can possibly feel more sharply than these survivors of the Pusan Perimeter, and the Yalu, and the Inchon offensive, the contrast between Korea then and now.

WA

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William A. Rusher

LETTER FROM SEOUL

They are coming back to South Korea these days, the American veterans of the Korean War—men in their fifties now, or older, with grey hair and perceptible paunches—to see what has happened to the country in the past three decades. The government of the Republic of Korea encourages them with package tours and special attentions, because it thinks it has a great story to tell and knows that nobody can possibly feel more sharply than these survivors of the Pusan Perimeter, and the Yalu, and the Inchon offensive, the contrast between Korea then and now.