



By Park Si-soo







Newly released rare color photos of the country taken in 1953 and 1954 show how war-ravaged South Korea looked.







Rupert Nelson, an American Korean War veteran, took more than 200 photos while traveling around the country. He and Prof. Chung Gun-wha, of Hanshin University, sorted out 100 to publish a collection titled "Hello Korea."







The photos captured the post-war landscapes of Seoul, Busan and Chuncheon, and how people went about their daily lives among war debris.







Noonbit, the collection's publisher, said Nelson served in a front-line U.S. artillery unit from January 1953 to February the following year.







The 180-page collection is priced at 25,000 won.





