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Old memories of Yongsan Garrison
Posted : 2021-02-07 17:48 By Choe Chong-dae
It has been 50 years since my first visit to Yongsan Garrison in the early 1970s. I was there to attend a welcoming reception in honor of a senior United Nations Command (UNC) official. Arriving at the main gate of the base, I explained to a security guard that I was going to the UNC party at Hartell House, an officers club on South Post, and showed the invitation.
However, he called the secretary of the general hosting the party and asked him to escort me to Hartell House because I looked so young as a man in his early 20s. I managed to join the reception on time and had the honor of meeting many distinguished guests who were diplomats, Korean government officials and UNC delegates.