KOREA: Cheju-Do Is Different

On Korea's mainland the struggle between freedom and Communism is grinding on as fiercely as anywhere on earth. But only 50 miles across the Yellow Sea, on the do (island) of Cheju, the older and no less titanic struggle between man & woman absorbs the interest of the U.S. military government.

In charge of the occupation is Lieut. Colonel Thurman A. Stout, whose briefing begins with an epoch several milleniums before Marx. In that dim past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in...

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