place in the kitchen, and end up at the chimney at the far end of the building. There are usually three parallel flues. The heat circulates from the fireplace, through the flues, and heats the rooms through the floors. The flagstones are covered with plastered mud and grass mats for sleeping on. The bigger houses are L-shaped; sometimes there are two heating systems starting at each end of the L. Fierce Tiger, by Sim Sa-Jong (dated 1774). Mr Kahui told how, the first night when the met with this heating system—a very cold night it was—the men threw some big logs on the fire. Soon the floor was so hot they could not sleep on it. The stove is meant to be fed on little pieces of fuel at a time, to maintain the heat needed. In a Korean home, he said, the women-take turns at feeding the fire with the little pieces during the night.

Army Life in Korea We did not talk much about the actual fighting. Mr Kahui found the Chinese fanatical, are very similar to the Japanese in their fighting habits. When making a charge, they called out ‘Banzai’, which is a Japanese word. He was struck by the part women took in the Chinese army; one charge, he said, was led by a woman who kept on shouting at the men behind her until she was shot, just before reaching the United Nations lines. Mr Kahui had very high praise for the Indian ambulance unit, which he said was absolutely spotless, extremely well equipped and wonderfully obliging. He made several friends among the Indian ambulance men. Together with a Canadian unit, the Indians provide the ambulance service for the British Commonwealth Division. What would be the future of Korea? Mr Kahui did not think the Koreans would altogether the worse off for the war. He thought the war had brought very important road improvements, which would otherwise have taken a very long time to put in. Yet the destruction was of course very great, and Korea to whom he had spoken told him it would take as long as twenty years to repair all the damage.

Glorious Past Korea can look back on a glorious past. Koreans used to be famous for making finely decorated iron caskets, inlaid ware, lacquer work, bowls, vases, wooden money chests and brass ware. One of their most famous article was paper made of the inner bark of the mulberry tree, much sought after in China and Japan. In war, Koreans were above all inventive. The most famous war in their history was the great fight with Japan at the end of the sixteenth century. The Japanese then invaded Korea with big forces, but were beaten off after a ruinous war. It was then that the Korea developed an explosive shell–the first in the world–which the Japanese were unable imitate. They regarded it as supernatural, and it caused far more havoc through the soldiers. (Continued on page 47)