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To mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, Seoul Selection has released “Korean War in Color,” a collection of over 170 rare, high-quality color photographs that capture Korea at war. Most photographic records of the war are in black and white, but veteran war correspondent John Rich used Kodak’s legendary color film Kodachrome, producing images that, in vivid colors, give readers an unprecedented sense of realism. Rich, who covered the war from start to finish for US wire service International News
More than 170 rare photos that capture the Korean War in vivid color● Color photo retrospective by a US war correspondent who covered the war from start to fi nish.
● Shot in crisp color with Kodak’s legendary Kodachrome fi lm.
● Scenes photographed 60 years ago appear as recent as yesterday.
● The largest collection of color photographs of the Korean War, with editions published in English and Korean.
● Sheds new light on the Korean War, the “Forgotten War.”
KOREAN WAR IN COLOR A Correspondent’s Retrospective on a Forgotten WarA Correspondent’s Retrospective on a Forgotten War
Author: John Rich
Year: 2010
Pages: 248
Size: 254*305*28 mm
Price: 60,000 won
South Korean soldiers pose for a group photograph.
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ISBN (Korean): 978-89-91913-65-3 06910
ISBN (English): 978-89-91913-64-6 06910
Service and US broadcaster NBC, spent decades as a war correspondent and reported on many of the 20th century’s major conflicts, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam and various African civil wars. Rich even covered the first Gulf War in 1991, at the age of 73.
The Many Images of War
“Korean War in Color” is a collection of 173 of Rich’s roughly 900 photographs taken during the
Korean War, arranged into six themes: “Memories and Faces,” “A Country in Ruins,” “In the Line of Fire,” “Weapons of War,” “A Resilient People” and “An Uneasy Truce.” The work focuses on the diversity of people living and fighting in Korea during the three years of the conflict. The sight of the battle-scarred, half-collapsed Janganmun Gate of Suwon Fortress, a young Korean soldier with a bright pink azalea in his helmet, the bright eyes of a child as he smiles and stares into the camera... the distant past makes as deep an impression upon us as if it were yesterday. In order to accentuate the sense of reality, the collection is published in extra-large format, measuring 25.4 cm by 30.5 cm.In the prologue to “Korean War in Color,” Rich
writes, “It’s my hope that readers of this book will understand the travails of war, and the fact that unlike any other human endeavor, it is a lesson in sacrifice and resilience. Both Americans and South Koreans understand this moral all too well, and as these pages vividly illustrate, with as good a reason as any.” Rich’s photographs, which record the Korean War of 60 years past, were stored in a Japanese tea chest until they were recently “rediscovered” in perfect condition by Rich at his home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Smithsonian Magazine ran a report on the photos after their discovery, and now
US Marines take a brief break outside Busan before going into battle.
South Korean children in early 1951, shortly after the UN Command recaptured Seoul.
American soldiers crouch atop one of a M46 Patton while Korean children look on.
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A young member of South Korea’s fighting force heralds spring while donning battlefield camouflage.
President Syngman Rhee accepting a bouquet of flowers from a young South Korean child after a military debriefing in 1951. General James Alward Van Fleet stands to the right.
The badly damaged Janganmun Gate of Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon.
“Korean War in Color” – Contents
Forewords | Memories & Faces |A Country in Ruins | In the Line of Fire |Weapons of War | A Resilient People |An Uneasy Truce | About John Rich |In His Own Words | Acknowledgements
they have been bundled together as a collection for the first time ever by Seoul Selection. Both English and Korean editions have been released.
Forewords were contributed by Korean War hero Gen (ret.) Paik Sun-yup, former Prime Minister Lee Hong-koo, US Ambassador Kathleen Stephens and USFK Commander Gen. Walter L. Sharp.
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About the Author
John Rich: ●Born in Maine, USA in 1917.
●Served as Tokyo correspondent of International News Service, the predecessor of UPI, interviewing Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito
●Sent to Korea in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. Spending three years in Korea, he is the only US reporter to cover the war from start to finish.
●In December 1950, Rich moved to US broadcaster NBC. After Korea, he served as Berlin correspondent for four years, then spent the next 30 years as a war correspondent in the world’s major hot zones, including a decade covering the Vietnam War.
●Won the Peabody Award.
●Currently lives in his home state of Maine with his wife, whom he met during the war when she was an employee of the US embassy in Seoul.
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Rich in Seoul shortly after the UN Command’s recapture of the capital in 1951.
Rich revisiting Korea after a period of absence, to attend a ceremony honoring war correspondents who died during the war.
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