Show Korea Resembles Tower of Babel Speech Barriers Cause Battleground Comedy SITUATIONS arise in Korea COMIC when troops speaking one tongue meet troops speaking another or try to communicate with the Korean people A Turkish patrol was sent to guard a railroad The guards took their orders literally and stopped even the which they would not let pass until orders from headquarters The train crow spoke Korean and and none of the Turks knew those Some Turkish troops were sent to a hilltop to see what lay ahead and saw a battalion of South Koreans who caught sight of the Turkish red crescent and star The South Koreans Immediately seized the While the Turks were trying to explain in the South Koreans gloated in GHQ had to straighten out the An American correspondent was riding in a jeep with a lone GI A convoy of trucks loaded with Turkish troops was stalled on the bumper to There was no room to as some of the trucks had stopped two The corporal driving the Jeep was a bit skittish of the Turkish officers he and the correspondent had to get out and ask for passage through the The Turks thought he just wanted to chat and explained to him in Turkish Just what they were doing to relieve the traffic The writer also thought he could detect expressions of solicitude about the health and that of tha |