Manchester (CL 83) - Naval Cruise Book

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Agriculture and (ishing leatl the nation as a means for living. Fishing is done from the traditional sampan. Farming is done on terraced mountain slopes utilizing each available inch for the national staple. ri -e. Implements of both professions are primitive. Oxen remain as a means for transportation of farm products, and often, the human back is the vehicle. Sampans are propelled by sculling with strong arms and strong legs, for these craft are not built for motors and if they were, where are the motorsV

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Vt hat was once culture, industr), and good living, now became something formless and cold — anis in a difTicnIt anthill. Korea is divided. Toda), with armies crisscrossing the land, industr) is small, transportation is slow, and the lacilities of other modern nations are not available. The Korean stand- ard of living is without automobiles and washing machines and precision tools. It is a basic life with basic instruments, ' lodax Koreans must utilize muscle and initiative.

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In Korea, as in Japan, and, even as one time in the United States, the woman is in the background. The Korean housewife raises children, cooks food, maintains the house- hold, and performs heavy work, sucli as carrying water and working in the fields. She walks behind the master of the house, but the [)ride of her j»rol ' ession can be seen in her shining bowls and the relati e clean- liness of her dirt floors.