• Bulletin No. 4
KOREAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BULLETIN
INTERNATIONAL   TRADE
COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE KOREAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN AMERICA
LIST PRODUCTS UNDER
EXPORT-IMPORT CONTROL
The Department of Commerce in Korea has
prepared lists of commodities that may be exported
and imported. These lists were prepared on the
basis of existing needs in Korea and the necessity
of conserving foreign exchange credit for urgently
needed commodities.
(1) Commodities whose import into Korea is
encouraged: rice, barley, wheat, oats, millet, soy
beans, cornstarch, wheat flour, seeds, pepper, sugar,
vermicelli, meats, poultry, oils, fats and waxes (ex-
. cept perfumes), drugs, medicines, rubber, ammonia,
soda and soda ash, caustic soda, chlorine, bicarbonate of soda, alum, matches, dyes, pigments, coatings and filling materials, yarns, threads, twines,
tissues and tissue goods (except carpets and rugs),
clothing and accessories including footwear but excluding costume jewelry; pulp, paper and paper
products, flint, copper, tin, brass and bronze, metal
products, machinery, wood, wood products, incandescent electric lamps, fertilizers, slate, gypsum,
coal, coke and briquettes, cement, asbestos, glass
' and glassware, aluminum.
(2) Commodities whose export from Korea is
encouraged; apples and pears, chestnuts and pine
nuts, marine products small unfinished furs, buttons and button blanks, drugs and medicines, ginseng, raw silk, embroidered clothes, silica sand,
mica, talc, fluorite, pottery and clay products, tungsten concentrates, graphite, pyrophyllite, straw
products (except bagging and rope) and lacquer
ware.
(3) Commodities whose import is prohibited:
sea products, walnuts and dried persimmons, tea,
confectioneries and cakes, vinegar, duck eggs, soda
water, alcoholic beverages, tobacco and tobacco
products, fur and fur goods, feathers and feather
goods, coral, pearls, toilet preparations (except
soap), joss sticks, carpets and rugs, jewelry for
personal adornment, playing cards, precious metals
and their products, coins, watches and clocks,
gramaphones and parts, musical instruments and
parts, firearms, brooms and brushes, toys and fountain pens.
(4)Commodities whose export is prohibited:
Livestock and poultry, grain, flour, starches, seeds,
onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, sugar,
hard candy, molasses, honey, confectioneries and
cakes, meat, poultry and game, eggs, salt, vermicelli, tobacco, hides, leather, turpentine, oils including sesame, maize, soy bean, cotton seed and
fish, animal fats, petroleum, vaseline, paraffin wax,
candies,   soaps,   glycerine,   chemicals,   dyes,   metal
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ANNOUNCING OFFICERS &
DIRECTORS FOR 1947
The members of the Korean Chamber of Commerce in America elected the following to the
Board of Directors:
Say Yong Kim
Young Ki Kim
Kwon Doin
J. William Lar
O. H. Lee
Ilhan New
Arthur Y. Park
Harry   Whang
Dr.  Y.  C.  Yang
Officers of the Chamber, elected by the Board
of Directors, are: Arthur Y. Park, re-elected president; Chinha Choy, Jason H. Hahn, Walter Jhung,
O. H. Lee, Dr. Y.  C. Yang,  vice-presidents;  Dr.
Arthur Y. S. Kim, secretary-treasurer; Ilhan New,
Board chairman.
Ahn Seungwha
Chinha Choy
Jason   H.   Hahn
Thomas   Y.   Hong
Dr. Phillip Jaisohn
Walter Jhung
Young Moon Kang
Dr. Arthur Y. S. Kim
Jacob Kim
The Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors consist of the Officers of the Chamber
plus chairman of Standing Committees, advisors,
and a general manager.
HODGE'S DECLARATION
OF KOREAN POLICIES
Upon his return to Korea, the commander of
the occupying American forces in Korea, Lt". Gen.
John R. Hodge, held a lengthy press conlerence
in Seoul. The following excerpts are taken from
Gen. Hodge's comments to the Korean newsmen
gathered at that meeting on April 8, 1947:
I am glad to be back in Korea. I was called
to Washington for conferences on Korean problems
and the Korean situation. In these conferences, I
talked with the President, the Secretary of State
and the Secretary of War many times, I found
tremendous interest in the United States in Korea's
problems/
I talked to hundreds of members of the press,
radio and businessmen and many people who can
be of great assistance in keeping up interest between our two nations.
I. found a tremendous interest in Korea and
in obtaining the facts about the problems here.
I found also some confusion in .the minds of Americans regarding Korea because of reports from
many sources that were not exactly factual.
There has been much inspired misunderstanding, some by forces opposing American policy, some
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