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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wasn't the US funding used for extra pay and
benefits to Korean troops, which encouraged them to "volunteer" for
Vietnam?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mike Munk</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 14, 2012 10:40
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] Brian Hwang's
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<DIV><SPAN>I think you will be hard-pressed to justify calling individual
soldiers mercenaries - the Korean government may have received funds from the
US, but ROK soldiers were drafted into mandatory service. If you come across
documentation that individuals volunteered for Vietnam in order to receive
funds from the US, please send such documents to me. </SPAN></DIV>
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Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 106, Issue 9<BR></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>Today's
Topics:<BR><BR> 1. Discussion Question (<A
href="mailto:brianhwang@berkeley.edu"
ymailto="mailto:brianhwang@berkeley.edu">brianhwang@berkeley.edu</A>)<BR>
2. March 2012 Issue of "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and<BR>
Culture Review" Available Online (Center for Korean
Studies)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
1<BR>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:15:24 -0700<BR>From: <A
href="mailto:brianhwang@berkeley.edu"
ymailto="mailto:brianhwang@berkeley.edu">brianhwang@berkeley.edu</A><BR>To: <A
href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws"
ymailto="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>Subject:
[KS] Discussion Question<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <<A
href="mailto:7cb59ce69b486f3c15e6bba3e396a6d4.squirrel@calmail.berkeley.edu"
ymailto="mailto:7cb59ce69b486f3c15e6bba3e396a6d4.squirrel@calmail.berkeley.edu">7cb59ce69b486f3c15e6bba3e396a6d4.squirrel@calmail.berkeley.edu</A>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain;charset=utf-8<BR><BR>Hello all:<BR><BR>I am a history student at
University of California, Berkeley. Currently I<BR>am working on a paper
regarding Korean involvement in the Vietnam War. My<BR>argument is that
although Korean soldiers were 1) mercenaries (because<BR>they were paid
predominantly by US dollars to go) and 2) anti communists<BR>(because of past
history), the atrocities that they are accused of<BR>committing are not
primarily due to the aforementioned reasons, but<BR>because of the type of
warfare that they had to fight in Vietnam,<BR>including guerrilla warfare and
civilian warfare.<BR><BR>Do you all think this is a valid argument? Are there
any primary sources<BR>that would help me in my argument, including ones that
attribute Korean<BR>atrocities to their mercenary and anticommunist
nature?<BR><BR>Thank
you!<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
2<BR>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:00:21 -0700<BR>From: "Center for Korean
Studies" <<A href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"
ymailto="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu">cks@berkeley.edu</A>><BR>To: <<A
href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws"
ymailto="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A>><BR>Subject:
[KS] March 2012 Issue of "Cross-Currents: East Asian
History<BR> and Culture Review" Available
Online<BR>Message-ID:
<037401cd199f$4b410820$e1c31860$@berkeley.edu><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="utf-8"<BR><BR>March 2012 Issue of "Cross-Currents: East
Asian History and Culture Review" now online <BR> <BR>The second issue
of IEAS's new, interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and
Culture Review" is now online. The theme of the March 2012 issue is "Japanese
Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the
Gaih?zu" (guest edited by K?ren Wigen, professor of History at Stanford).
Visit http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2 to read the
articles, a review essay written by Timothy Cheek (University of British
Columbia) about Ezra Vogel's new book on Deng Xiaoping, and abstracts of
important new scholarship in Chinese. The March issue of the e-journal also
features a photo essay by Jianhua Gong documenting Shanghai's longtang
alleyways. <BR><BR>A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean
Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at
the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), "Cross-Currents" offers its
readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge
perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both
English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities.
<BR><BR><BR>* * ** ** <BR><BR><BR>March 2012 issue of "Cross-Currents"
e-journal<BR>(See <A
href="http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2"
target=_blank>http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2</A>)<BR><BR>*Co-Editors'
Note*<BR><BR>Building an Online Community of East Asia Scholars<BR>Sungtaek
Cho, Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS), Korea University<BR>Wen-hsin
Yeh, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), University of California,
Berkeley<BR><BR>*Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The
Past and Future of the Gaihozu*<BR><BR>Introduction to "Japanese Imperial Maps
as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the
Gaihozu"<BR>Guest editor K?ren Wigen, Stanford University<BR><BR>Japanese
Mapping of Asia-Pacific Areas, 1873-1945: An Overview<BR>Shigeru Kobayashi,
Osaka University<BR><BR>Imagining Manmo: Mapping the Russo-Japanese Boundary
Agreements in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, 1907-1915<BR>Yoshihisa T.
Matsusaka, Wellesley College<BR><BR>Triangulating Chosen: Maps, Mapmaking, and
the Land Survey in Colonial Korea<BR>David Fedman, Stanford
University<BR><BR>Mapping Economic Development: The South Seas Government and
Sugar Production in Japan's South Pacific Mandate, 1919--1941<BR>Ti Ngo,
University of California, Berkeley<BR><BR>*Forum*<BR><BR>Asian Studies/Global
Studies: Transcending Area Studies and Social Sciences<BR>John Lie, University
of California, Berkeley/<BR><BR>Defenders and Conquerors: The Rhetoric of
Royal Power in Korean Inscriptions from the Fifth to Seventh
Centuries<BR>Hung-gyu Kim, Korea University<BR><BR>*Review Essays and
Notes*<BR><BR>Of Leaders and Governance: How the Chinese Dragon Got Its
Scales<BR>Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia<BR><BR>A Note on the
40th Anniversary of Nixon's Visit to China<BR>William C. Kirby, Harvard
University<BR><BR>*Photo Essay*<BR><BR>"Shanghai Alleyways" by photographer
Jianhua Gong<BR>Essay by Xiaoneng Yang, Stanford University<BR><BR>*Readings
from Asia*<BR><BR>Ge Zhaoguang , Dwelling in the Middle of the Country:
Reestablishing Histories of "China" [????:????"??"???]<BR>Abstract by Wennan
Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences<BR><BR>Wang Qisheng, Revolution and
Counter-Revolution: Republican Politics in Social-Cultural Scope
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