National Affairs: Open Season for Moose

Among the G.I.s of the U.S.'s Far East Command, the capital city of South Korea is rated as a real suzushii (cool) town. Fraternization is the order of any evening in Seoul, and the frizzled heads of willing young Korean misses, in military tow, bob around town in jeeps, and bend over ice cream cups at the snack bars. If an officer prefers a "stateside reject"—his term for the Caucasian girls from the civilian relief agencies-he takes her to "Round Eyes Night" at Seoul's baroque Chosen Hotel. But "Moose Night" is more popular. Then the brass show up with their "musume"—a...

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