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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
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January 12, 1966

Dr. Harold J. Coolidge
Director,
Pacific Science Board
National Academy of Sciences,
2101 Constitution Avenue,
N. W., Washington D. C.,
U. S. A.

Dear Dr. Coolidge:

I believe that your trip in Asia was a pleasant one. On the 23th of December in 1965 we accomplished the preliminary survey for the investigation of Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), as you suggested when you visited Korea, though it was a little delayed because of the state of affairs in Eighth U. S. Army (EUSA). As shown in the separate newspaper five scholars including me had inspected this zone minutely for 3 days under the guidance of Eighth U. S. Army and Korean Army.

However, there are some different things than we thought. That is, first, it is impossible to do this work in DMZ (length 150 mile, width 4 km) without mutual consent between UN and Communist sides. So this time UN side at a meeting at Pan Moon Jom tried to get the agreement of Communist side, but the latter rejected it. Therefore we couldn't but survey only the area in the vicinity of southern boundary of DMZ. But this is also a restricted area for civilians, and it has the almost same environment as DMZ. Second, in some areas belonging largely to Korean Army, we found that these areas were set on fire for military operations. So the environments of these areas are somewhat different from those of DMZ, but not all of DMZ areas were set on fire, and it doesn't seem to make so much troubles in doing this work. For this investigation we selected four areas including two survey-possible areas between middle and east parts of Korea. One of these areas belongs to U. S. Army control and the rest to Korean Army.

Now we are making research programs on the four areas mentioned above. Immediately after we finish making these programs we will send them to you. According to these programs 25 scholars are supposed to survey four areas many times (5 members at a time) and this costs much expense.