Chocolate originally came to Korea during the time of the Daehan Empire. At that time chocolate was unfamiliar “food” and symbolized the duality of something…
Two G.I.’s and two Korean children were seated at each table on Thanksgiving day.
About once a week we went to K-14 Kimpo Airport to pick up meats from Japan off a C-124 Globemaster aircraft. These meats included T Bone, Rib Eye Steaks and Chicken.
Three weeks before the 7th Infantry Division shipped to Inchon, we received an augmentation of 8,600 Koreans. Before they arrived our division commander (Maj.Gen. David…
As chef at the now-defunct Navy Club in the U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Yongsan, Oh Seong-geun held dear his flavor memories from each overseas locale…
“Open your bag, please,” said a young officer standing behind the customs inspection table at John F. Kennedy airport. A pungent smell of the seashore…
It was back in the 70’s in Korea…..it was snowing a LOT……Korean family from the little village area on the beach-this was the early 70’s, told us to come inside their home! We spent the night or two with them……Will we ever know who these people were? Do they remember that special time?…..We regret that we didn’t have room for the camera on this trip…….Thanking my lucky stars each and every day
It’s the definition for the three Michelin starred dining establishments – in French “Une des meilleures tables, vaut le voyage.” For the hierarchy of two…
One of the First Ladies of Korea once told foreign journalists that Korean craftsmen are far more skilled in producing handmade equipment, tools, or art…
The 570th Ord Co Das was a “Working” camp and had none of the military harassment. We had “young Korean House Boys” that cleaned the…
The new Commissary didn’t replace this one until well after the early 80s… remember the banana fights…
……when we were invited to a dinner at an army mess hall or Dragon Hill Lodge in the South Post, Yongsan Garrison, I refrained from serving kimchi to my husband and myself one day ahead of the meeting day.
Diamond Water, the first commercial drinking water to be approved in South Korea, and passing the water quality test by the hygiene authority of the USKF, in Yongsan in 1977
“When I was a kid in elementary school in Korea the school provided cornbread as a daily snack to the students just before class was…
With Mr. Lee, one of my colleague architects, I got off at the Samkajji trolley station. The tram was a single car painted with faded…