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Show Koreans Run Thieves Mart Seoul Natives Sell Variety 'Hot' Items SEOUL, KOREA. Any modest-sized modest-sized American department store would be envious of the thieves' market in this capital city with its variety of goods ranging from surgeon's scalpels to G.I. uniforms. With a sly grin the native calls it "our Korean P.X." The market, which is stuffed with goods obtained mainly through questionable channels, is made up of hundreds of wooden stalls on a muddy, twisting side alley almost a mile long. The American influence on this little community of "hot" goods is plainly evident. The three years of American military government combined with the large civilian personnel still here has been the market's best source of supply. The market, whose merchants operate on the basis of "you name it; we have It," or "if not, we can get It," is glutted with medicines, shoes, toilet articles, civilian and GI clothes, plaster pin-up girls, and almost anything else you can think of. The market has grown into quite a little industry with its own dyeing dye-ing and tailoring concerns. It is ; only a matter of hours until a "hot" man's suit can be tailored over into a woman's garment and dyed a different color. Another favorite pastime of the ' local slippery finger men is the lifting of automoblie headlights, ! provided they cant make off with ' the vehicle. But those thieves spe- I cializing in the automobile trade apparently are imbued with a certain cer-tain amount of community consciousness con-sciousness and need for safety on , the roads, at night. They invariably I I remove only one headlight. |