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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Doc Rock: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some of us who worked at the Asea munje yon'guso
during the mid 1970s were privileged to know Kim Junyop and he was full of such
stories. I've never done research in this period, but knowing Kim I believe
his story. He, of course, was a far different person than Rhee and with
much more progressive politics, Although had he maneuvered his way into power,
who knows what his politics might have been. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike R.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ed4linda@yahoo.com href="mailto:ed4linda@yahoo.com">Dr. Edward D.
Rockstein</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] Shanghai Provisional
Gov't</DIV>
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<DIV>Below is a comment (slightly edited) which I posted on<A
href="http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/">
Frog in a Well 15 Mar 2006</A> and may or may not be of interest:</DIV>
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<DIV><A title=""
href="http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/#comment-332">March
15th, 2006 at 7:20 am</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>While this is only tangentially related, it may be of some interest: In
1967 when I was<BR>going to Korea as a Fulbright Fellow from Princeton to be
attached to the Asiatic Research<BR>Center (}x) at Koryo
University, I met Kim Jun-hyop from the Center, first at<BR>Princeton and
later in Seoul. In the course of our association he told me how he had
been<BR>in the Japanese Army in China and deserted to join the Korean
government <EM>in absentia</EM> in<BR>Shanghai. He related an interesting
anecdote about the end of the war in the Pacific:<BR>apparently there was a
race on between the State Department, on one hand, and the OSS to gain control
in Seoul as the Japanese were forced to withdraw. According to Kim (and
my<BR>fading memory), the OSS loaded up its guys, including Kim, onto an
airplane and flew them to (I believe) Kimpo to try to set up a new
government while State was hustling Syngman Rhee and his cohort off from
Hawaii. The OSS timing, apparently, was a bit premature, and the aircraft
arrived at Kimpo before the turnover by the Japanese, the plane was not
permitted to land. In the interim, the turnover took place, Rhee came into
power and, the rest, as they say, was history. I wonder if anyone
has corroborating or different information on such a race for control of
post-occupation Korea?</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Doc Rock</DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>Dr. Edward D. Rockstein <BR>Senior Language Instructor
<BR>Language Learning Center (LLC) <BR>Office 410-859-5672</DIV>
<DIV>Fax 410-859-5737 <BR>ed4linda@yahoo.com <BR> </DIV>
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