13. Paul Noll Cooks for Korean Workers - Page 2
Our Operations
Our radio team has some 6-8 tons of equipment to get to the top of mountains.
The Army gave us Korean money to hire workers, a million Won at a time. 1000
notes of 1000 Won. A worker got 1000 won for a day's work. We also got a ration
of Korean workers, about 20 to 100 a day depending on the situation at the
radio relay site. We picked them up in our trucks from the local police station
where they would assemble. Food was difficult to get for the Koreans in the
early part of the war.
Our Ration of Korean workers Somewhere I had acquired a big pot like the ones cartoonist depicted the cannibals cooking the missionaries in. It was fitted with a tripod so we could build a fire underneath. I would hold back 1 or 2 workers to help me cook. They would open all the cans of food and put them into the pot. Milk, potatoes what ever we had and build a fire under the pot. When the workers finished working we fed them. Anything left over they could take home to their families. The word got out and everyone clamored to work for us when we picked up the workers at the local police station.
Good Relations with the Koreans We felt good about helping them. They would bring containers to take home food in to their families. And the food didn't go to waste.