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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dear Kwang-On: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I think the point is the use of the word “hero”. Yoon’s
involvement in terrorism in the cause of Korean independence is I suppose
rightly heroic in nationalist logic. This requires that a previous judgment
has been made about the various causes the principles represented. Here the
hapless general who was blown up is associated with Japan and its morally
reprehensible colonialism and Mr. Yoon the righteous Korean cause of
independence…which further requires a belief in some doctrine of the immutability
of ethnic groups to self-determination….and on and on. More believable would
be a narrative that correctly identifies the causes, motives, on both sides and
gets the facts of the terror correct and maybe recognizes the humanity of both
victim and perpetrator….and then uses language which might neutralize our
valorization of murder in a righteous cause since that is the kind of thinking
which unfortunately animates so much killing throughout human history….a
lamentable but immutable fact in and of itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike Robinson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Kwang On Yoo<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ruediger Frank; Korean Studies Discussion List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KS] Official end of WWII in Asia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Mr. Frank,<br>
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I understand your distaste but desperate time bears desperate heroism.<br>
<br>
Kwang-On Yoo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Ruediger Frank <<a
href="mailto:ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at">ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear
all,<br>
am I the only one who has second thoughts regarding this thread? <br>
Let me put it this way: In today's world, would Mr. Yoon's deeds be regarded as
an act of heroism? Or as an example of another -ism? Not that such a discussion
would lead us very far on this list, but I find it interesting to observe how
blowing up a person (or ripping off one of his legs) with a bomb can be
interpreted in very different ways depending on... on what? On context? On
culture? On vantage point? <br>
Best wishes,<br>
Rudiger Frank</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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