PEDIATRICS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

In The spring of 1959, Dr. John Anderson, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, asked me to go to Korea as adviser in pediatrics to Seoul National University. The University of Minnesota has a contract with the United States Operations Mission (USOM) to help rehabilitate Seoul National University in the schools of Agriculture, Public Administration, Engineering and Medicine. This contract has been in effect since 1954, has involved the spending of several millions of dollars, the sending of medical advisers from Minnesota to Seoul and of medical participants, as they are called, from Seoul National University (SNU) to the University of Minnesota.