Keith, at 23:34 on May 31 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BL> Actually, Korean engineers are real hard bastards. They reckon they
BL> know it all, like Germans. At the time I'd been dealing with Taiwanese
BL> and the Koreans came as a terrible shock. It's no wonder they did so
BL> well in the Korean war!

BG> They wouldn't have done too well without external assistance though.

KR> but then they were fighting other koreans so both sides were on a equal 
KR> footing.

Que?  To the north, we had the North Koreans and the Chinese, and to the
south, we had Aussies, Poms, Yanks, Kiwis, and John Wayne.  

Not to forget the occasional South Korean as well... 

Regards, Bill
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