Hongchon, Pungam and some other towns fell to Ridgway’s careful, crunching advance, which was approaching the important Red base at Chunchon ... a short distance south. The town was quiet.

(The population of South Korea was 49,052,988). In Chunchon diocesan jurisdiction, the population is 1,114,212 at the end of 2016. (Some 2.3 percent of the whole population 51 million in the country) ...

This time, instead of holding their line south of the Han River ... between Seoul and the Chinese behind-lines supply base at Chunchon. In the center of the line, U.S. Marines, ist Cavalrymen ...

The diocese belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Seoul which comprises Seoul archdiocese; the dioceses of Chunchon, Daejeon ... and uses the Bibles sent by the Catholic Church in South Korea.