Manchester (CL 83) - Naval Cruise Book

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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.

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J K i L, ■ ■•IM-- «ff , The children of Korea are the same as any other children. They hke to smile and consider the world a good thing, even with a war in their backyard. But they have a definite serious side. They are little men and little women and soon they must play the role of the grownup in this war ravaged land. They are faced with disease. The rate of deaths among them is high while the chances of survival through childhood are low. But, in spite of hunger, poverty, and a war, they stand erect, proud, and it is seldom that a child can be seen crying.