Liberated Chinese and Korean prisoners arrive in South Korea after the Korean War. The group includes 14,000 former communist Chinese (People's Republic of China) soldiers who are defecting to Taiwan (Republic of China) and are welcomed as "anti-Communist Heroes." The liberated prisoners leave stockades of Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. Freed prisoners carry flags and get into trucks which pass along streets of Seoul. A crowd cheers for the prisoners.
United States airmen load trucks with equipment at 5th Air Force Compound in Seoul, Korea. Men put tarpaulins over loaded trucks.
United States Airmen load trucks with equipment at 5th Air Force Compound in Seoul, Korea. Two men hold picture of a nude girl. Men put tarpaulins over loaded trucks. Convoy of military trucks drives past on road. Trucks loaded with equipment.
Board of '5th Air Force Headquarters' at the entrance of building, at 5th Air Force Compound in Seoul, Korea. Korean workers and United States Airmen load equipment onto military trucks. Men smoke cigarettes. United States Airman ties a rope on hook of the truck. Trucks driven.
The armistice ending the Korean War is signed July 27, 1953. South Korean refugees walking down train tracks at the end of the Korean War. Heavily damaged buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Residents of Seoul picking through trash looking for food. 1960s a bulldozer is seen in front of a new high rise building in Seoul. Construction supplies carried by laborers to construction site from water. Pedestrians on Seoul street wearing traditional Hanbok robes. Market place in Seoul, picking crabs at market stall. Women with Korean children. Korean children in front of temple. Children eating on street with balloons nearby. Korean children playing volleyball. Korean children in school uniforms. Korean women looking in store front in Seoul. Streets in Seoul show bicycles and carts overloaded with supplies.
United States Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson accompanied by Mrs. Jessie Curtis Wilson arrives in Seoul, South Korea. They get down from an airplane. He is greeted by United States Commander of the Far East Forces General Maxwell Taylor, and Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs. They meet other people at the airport who had come to welcome them. People welcome them with bouquets of flowers. Mr. Wilson talks with other people.