Final handprints at SAES
Contributor: Quinten Russo
We are down to the last five days with children in our beautiful, perfect, legacy school. While bare shelves and walls are the norm any…
We are down to the last five days with children in our beautiful, perfect, legacy school. While bare shelves and walls are the norm any…
In October 1958 My best friend Joe Sciortino and I enlisted into the US Army, in July the following year we were on our way to Korea. I was assigned to C Company, 728th MP Battalion in Yongsan.
What’s important to remember, after all is said and done, are the many thousands of people who touched the face of South Korea including: the citizens of the communities who donated clothing; the students and faculty at the universities who collected, sorted, boxed and provided financial help; the transportation companies who donated their trucks and railroad cars; and especially the soldiers, both American and Korean, who distributed the clothing throughout the country for a decade. Kamsahamnida
For me, it all started on Yongsan Compound.
The history of the First Senior Class of the first American High School in Korea is brief. It began on September 8, 1959, with thirteen…
SUN OVER SEOUL has meant many things to many students…….. it helped Seoul American High School be awarded the “Excellence in Education” award for the school year ’84-’85
“We sell, buy and exchange – since 1974” says the advertisement of foreign book store located at southern end of Itaewon township, near Line #6…
The staff of the Yongsan Library babysat me for a small but significant portion of my childhood. I was barely well-mannered enough that they never…