Sir John Moreton was appointed as the British ambassador to South Vietnam in 1968. Sir John, a decorated war veteran himself, was invited to inspect South Korean troops fighting there as allies of the South Vietnamese government. These photographs are from an album he was given as a memento. In 1970, just over 48,500 South Korean soldiers were stationed in Vietnam. From September 1964 to March 1973, more than 300,000 South Korean troops were involved in the war. The South Korean contingent was second only in size to that of the United States in terms of foreign troops serving in Vietnam. The Vietnam War remains intensely controversial, as does the South Korean role in the war.