Some of amazing color pictures of Seoul's everyday life in winter during Korean War period, ca. 1952-1953, were found by m20wc51 will help us to visualize a part of it.
At a small market |
Book stores on a street |
Boys in reformed uniform at the right upper corner. Military surplus uniform could be reformed, dyed to be used by civilians. |
Boys with their distributed goods |
A boy waiting for his mother receiving distributed goods |
A girl giving her grandfather something to drink |
A man carrying a hay basket with his cigarette pipe |
A man dragging bags with his simple handcart |
A man with his oxcart |
A woman standing in front of a laundry |
A woman with her kid lining up to receive distrbuted goods |
A woman with her pot lining up waiting to receive distributed food |
Airfield in Seoul |
At a goods distributing point |
Celebrating the opening of a new show |
Clothing packages collected abroad |
Handing out clothing |
Mother and son |
On a street in Seoul |
People depended on wood for heat and cooking, even small branches and twigs like this |
Selling rice cakes on a street |
The girl is carrying an old Japanese Army messkit |
The oil drums made into stoves |
The shoeshine boy with his box in the crowd lining up waiting to receive items from soldiers |
War correspondent and USAF officer |
Wartime ruins |
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