Morale and effectiveness for the unit were believed low in late 1950 probably due to entering combat understrength and with ill-trained recruits.
A partial compensation occurred soon thereafter when the unit received six 76mm guns, four 122mm howitzers, four trucks, and about 50 replacements.
After four days of battle, the 8th Division was destroyed as a combat force, suffering about four thousand casualties.
[2] While committed in the Seoul Sector along the Imjin River during the spring of 1951 as part of the I Corps, the division sustained considerable personnel casualties and lost a good portion of its scant artillery support including the entire regimental artillery of the 1st Rifle Regiment which was surrounded and completely annihilated on February 19 in the vicinity of Kwangju.
Replacements for some of these losses were received prior to the May offensive during which the 8th Division spearheaded the I Corps assault on Seoul.