Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945
I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...
Category: Korean War
The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange
This is the second of a three part series. Read the first posting here. On November 28, a South Korean artilleryman mistakenly fired a single 155mm shell north ...
An Interpreter’s Tale
I have been collecting notes for a study of the treason of interpreters. This may not make it into my dissertation, but I find the topic fascinating. In the his...
Korean War in art
Japan Focus has an article detailing and displaying Gobau’s Korean War art which has a plethora of arresting images. Gobau worked from the Republic of Kor...
The Sideshow in Korea?
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean...
Gregory Henderson Reporting on a Massacre
I’ve recently been looking through 한국전쟁과 집단학살 (Organized Massacres and the Korean War) by 김기진. The work focuses primarily on crimes against civilians carr...
Korea: Better than Vietnam, anyway
Thomas C. Reeves, perhaps my least favorite HNN blogger, is arguing that the success of South Korea justifies our Middle East policies, especially Iraq. The com...
Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea
this via: White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would like to see a U.S. role in Iraq ultimately similar to that in South Korea. “The Korean model is ...
Revisionism (History news round up I)
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...