Photos and Stories from Y.S.Kim's Facebook

• addressed to my high-school classmates.

• You may click on each image to enlarge it.

• Many of us came from our northen provinces during the years 1945-47 to avoid the communist system being set up there. My family came from the North to Seoul in 1946.

  Do you know how Korea was divided?

  

• In 1954, when we graduated from our high school, Korea was totally destroyed during the three years of the war (1950-53).

  

  In 2004, fifty years later, Korea achieved a degree of affluence for us to share these gold-cased watches (made in Korea) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of our graduation. In intend to give these watches to my grandson and granddaughter when they go to their colleges.

  By now, Korea became one of the ten strongest countries in the world. This is the contribution our generation made to the history of our country.

• We still have a big problem: the unification of our country. Like us, Koreans in the North are smart and dliligent. They should be able to join us by getting rid of their monarchy.

• During the years 1953-55, General Maxwell Taylor was the commander of the U.S. Forces in Korea. He became interested in Korea's high-school system, because he had to build the Korean army by creating army officers from Korean high-school graduates.

  He asked his Korean secretary (Major Paek Hang-Gul) which high school is best in Korea. The Korean secretary told him about the school he attended. Taylor came to this school, met students, and gave a speech. I am shaking hands with him in this photo. Major Paek is bebind Taylor in this photo.

  

  In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Maxwell Taylor as the Chairman of the Joint Chief. In 1962, he designed the military plan to eliminate Soviet Missiles in Cuba. As a result, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Boss, lost his job.

• The Korean War started in 1950, during our third year in high school. On June 28, 1950, the NK army moved into Seoul, and my family walked to Suwon on that day. On June 29, while waiting for the departure to Daejon on a roofless cargo train, we spotted a four-engined American plane approaching the Suwon airport. We all cheered even though we did not know who was on that plane.

  Then we heard machine gun noise, and saw a F80 jet fighter of the U.A. Airforce scrambling around. I later learned that Gen. Douglas MacArthur was on that plane, and the North Korean Yak fighter was trying to shoot down Mac's plane, but the jet-engined American F-80 fighter chased away the NK Yak fighter.
  
  General Kim Chung-Yeol was the chief of the Korean Air Force at that time. Accoding to him, shooting down Mac's plane could have started the third world war. Until 1951, Douglas MacArthur was a very important person for Americans and also for Koreans. He is still a big shot in the histroy of the world.

• I am not bragging too much if I tell you I was very good in mathematics during our high-school years. The following figure tells what I studied in 1953 while we were still in Busan. If you cannot read the text in the figure, you may click on this figure to expand the image.

  

  It is not easy to realize that the ellipse is a squeezed circle. It is not clear whether Einstein knew how to use this in his theories. For a detailed story, go to my my Einstein story.

• Some of you came to my house during the Busan period (1951-53). There, we listened to radio programs from Pyongyang, with my short-wave radio. The Pyongyang radio sent out three powerful short-wave signals with 4.4, 5,7, and 6.25 mhz.

  We were interested in the Pyongyang programs not because we liked their communist messages, but because many of us came from our northern provinces. I am one of those northerners. Here is one of their songs I used to hear often: Click here. This song should be familiar to those who came from the North.

  With the same radio, I used to pick up radio programs from Tokyo. Suwa Nejiko (1920-2012) was Japan's world-class violinist who made her name in France and Germany before and during World War II. She came back to her country after the war in 1945.

  

  Not many of you know who she was, but my Japanese friends become impressed when I talk about her, and tell them I tape-recorded her music coming from Tokyo in 1953.

  She was playing Violin Concerto No.3 by Camille Saint-Saens at Tokyo's Hibiya Public Hall. This piece of music was totally unknown in Korea at that time, but it is popular among Koreans these days. Let us hear a Korean violinist playing this music. Click here.

• Many of you came from our northern provinces. You know well what happened there before and after 1948. We all know Kim Il-Sung was a Gazza (faked), but his dynasty lasted to the 3rd generation. The question is when this dynasty is going to be eradicated.

  

  Let us see the following face-reading (kwan-sang).

  

  Saigo Takamori is an important figure in Japanese history. His statue is at the entrance of the Ueno Park in Tokyo. He succeeded in tearing down the Tokugwa dictatorship in Japan. With the Tokugawa regime, he also fell down. He had to kill himself by committing Harakiri.

  Mikhail Gorbachev also wanted reform the Soviet communist system, but he fell down with the system. It is thus easy to predict what is going to happen to Mr. Kim Jung-un. He seems to have a complicated woman problem. We shall see what will happen to him.

• Let us now look at a photo of our Tallman.

  

• He used to mention my name often, and many of you became upset. The following image will explain what happened since then.

  

• Our Tallman used to talk about Eton and Harrow often. For curiosity, I went there and took some photos. You may click on Eton and Harrow to see some of the photos. This Eton-Harrow concept is totally out-dated, but many people come to see this page.

  This page is particularly popular among Indians. Their Nehru went to Harrow. In order to be nice to our Tallman, I placed his photo in my Eton-Harrow page.

• Our Tallman had many daughters. The eldest daughter graduated from her high school in 1954 (same as ours), and we talked about her often. I never met her in Korea, and I heard that she does not like me. OK. Her husband is four years ahead of her and us. He is a physicist and I know him well. You may be interested in their photo on my facebook.

  

• Korean girls did not like me because I still talk like a high-school boy. I still become curious when I see the girls.

• Near our campus in Seoul, there were many girls wearing the following school badges. We used to be on the same Electric Cars when going to and coming home from the school.

  

  We wanted to talk to them, but our Confucian rules did not allow us to approach them. After graduation in 1954, we gained a degree of freedom, and started talking to girls.

  

  
  In 1994, 40 years after my high-school graduation, I was on a subway train in Osaka (Japan). Alas, these Japanese girls were wearing Sera Fuku (Sailor's dress), out-fashined in Korea many years ago. Some Korean girls were wearing those SeraFuku uniforms before the Korean War (1950). After the War (1930), Korean girls did away with those baby-style uniforms.

Right after our graduation in March of 1954, I entered the Engineering College of Seoul National University and spent one semester as a freshman there, before leaving Korea for the United States in September of the same year. These are the photos of myself and the campus of the Engineeering College.



My frehsmen class conisists of 360 students. Among them, there were 15 girls. Koreans then did not trust female engineers. One of those girls became my wife. Click here for her photos.

• We were not allowed to talk to girls when we were high-school students, according to the deep-rooted Confucian tradition. After the graduation, we gained our new liberty. I enjoy talking with girls wherever I go in this world. I now have about 2,000 photos of myself with smart-looking girls and ladies around the world. You are invited to this page.

• My facebook address is https://www.facebook.com/youngs.kim.714.

  A number of you are already linked with me. I would like to have all of you as my friends in the facebook program.