American reporter John Rich's collection of color photographs, which he snapped with his new Nikon and Kodachrome film in between filing stories, during his time in Korea throughout the "Forgotten" conflict might "constitute perhaps the most extensive collection of color photographs of the Korean War." Most professional photographers then favored "black-and-white for its greater technical flexibility, not to mention marketability--the major periodicals had yet to publish in color."
Rich, who covered the Korean War in its entirety, remembers two colors the most: the Windex blue of the ocean and sky, and the brown of sandbags, dusty roads and fields of ginseng. In his photographs, though, red seems the most vivid.