If you haven’t seen it yet, be absolutely sure to watch the footage from “The Korean War in Color” posted at GI Korea.
It’s absolutely amazing.
(MUST SEE) Korean War in Color!
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Why are there scenes from Vietnam in this documentary? Since when are there palm trees in Korea? And why do the scenes of the US homefront show cars from the late 1950s when the war took place in the early 50s?
I guess they had trouble finding enough color footage.
I also wondered about the palm leaves. Still, I thought it was very interesting, and noted also how so many of the hills were completely treeless. Someone told me that the Japanese made a last ditch lumber effort before they officially left the penisula? That’s a question for someone to elaborate upon.
Also, the highest tidal waters in the world are not around Incheon Harbour but rather in the Bay of Fundy. Right?
Koreans tend to blame Japan for cutting down the trees, but
actually many of the books written by foreigners who visited
the Chosun Dynasty in the late 1800s mention the denuded
landscape and lack of trees. Wood was the prime source of heating
fuel so it’s not that surprising. We can thank Park Chung Hee for
the reforestation program – I heard it was even a crime until
the late 1980s to cut down a tree on private property without official
permission.
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