I've tried to explain to people that N. Korean fear of the U.S. is founded upon savage war crimes committed during the war, they refuse to belive me. For some reason Korea has a "good war" halo that only the unpatriotic would ever dare question.
That's part of it. The "human" experience of Americans in Korea was refugee crises, daring-do dogfights and conventional warfare across a solid battle line. It fits into the mentality of "WWII." The "inhuman" experience of Americans in Korea was high-altitude saturation bombing and you can say "yeah, well we did that to Japan, we did that to Germany" but it was a bit more... asymmetrical in Korea. But yes. Hawkeye and Trapper didn't spend a lot of time picking body parts out of the aftermath of a B-29 raid.