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Nature is Korea in August wears a smile of plenty. We travelled through valley after-fertile valley rich with rice, kaollang and potatoes. Cotton plants blossom in purple and white. The earth is yellow-red. The surrounding hills and mountains - and in Korea one is never out of sight of a mountain - are covered with scrub oak and pine. Tall poplars wave plume-like in all the valleys. Fruit is plentiful everywhere and I have never tasted better apples. As in our own Northeast, which Korea much resembles, there is an abundance of green growth. But here , there are more flowers. Here, as there, the electricity pylons look like great three-armed giants striding across the hills. In their distinctive national dress of short white blouses and long flowing black skirts, the Korean women walk the roads on their way to market or work with never failing grace. Magnificent brown bulls draw the sturdy two-wheeled peasant carts.'

Source: People's China 1950