The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America - Paperbackby Yuri W. Doolan (Author) During the 1950s, thousands of mixed race children were born to US servicemen and local Korean women in US occupied South Korea. Assumed to be the progeny of camptown women or military prostitutes their presence created a major problem for the image of US democracy in the world at a time when the nation was vying for Cold War allegiances abroad. As mixed race children became a discernible population around US military