Richard Rutt – ‘Memoirs of Korea in the Mid-1950s’ – Pages 11-27

Once I began telling people I was going to Korea, I realised how little known Korea was in Britain, even immediately after three years of [the] Korean War in which British soldiers had fought and died. Few English people had any idea where Korea was. Great-Aunt Jenny of Handscomb End Farm even asked what part of Africa was Korea in; but she left school in the 1870s. Yet the English in general tho...