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Prof. Pettid, your optimism and idealism are admirable and I hope
they are achievable and will come to being. JK<br>
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On 4/16/2012 7:57 PM, Michael Pettid wrote:
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It is too easy to blame war and violence on some
predisposed human condition (and that is
very convenient for militaristic governments and
individuals who hope to profit from such violence).
And preparing for war is surely the best way to
prevent it and make the world safe. We are certainly
doing a fine job of that as I write.<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt;"><span>I
am a premodernist and I teach my students about the
futility and uselessness of war and how that damaged
the lives of individuals and society. It is not a
human condition as you state, but rather resultant
from greed and the desire to take from others what one
might not have. I find it rather amazing that this is
something I need to state in academia, but clearly we
have a ways to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Professor of Premodern Korean Studies<br>
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies</span>
<div><span class="yui_3_2_0_19_1334619666973179">Director,
Translation, Research and Instruction Program<br>
Binghamton University<br>
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sheila.jager@oberlin.edu"><sheila.jager@oberlin.edu></a><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, April 16, 2012 8:22 AM<br>
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Re: [KS] Brian Hwang's Discussion Question<br>
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<div> Unfortunately war is a necessary evil in the human
condition. The better you are prepared for it the better
the chance of preventing it. No one is more anti-war
then the people who have to fight it if it occurs. You
can condemn war, and rightfully so, but you can't
eliminate it. <br>
<br>
Jiyul Kim.<br>
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On 4/15/2012 7:50 PM, Michael Pettid wrote:
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<div style="font-family:
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style="font-family: tahoma,times,serif;"><font>I
am happy that you were able to find a silver
lining in a war that killed tens of
thousands of combatants and many, many more
non-combatants. The war </font>experience<font> that
was able to "bolster the competence and
confidence" of the SK troops was surely
worth such a cost, right? Wars are
the plague of humankind and nothing more
than the actions of various governments to
achieve their goals. War must
be condemned in whatever fashion necessary.</font></span></div>
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J. Pettid<br>
Professor of Premodern Korean Studies<br>
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies</span>
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Binghamton University<br>
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;">Sent:</b><span
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15, 2012 12:58 PM</span><br>
<b style="font-size: 12pt;">Subject:</b><span
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<div>This is all good and fine from a macro
view and I see nothing to disagree with,
but numbers and quantification and metrics
do not make history. What is left out is
the psychology and emotions that Vietnam
generated in Park, the military, and the
populace. No doubt there were tremendous
materiel benefits for SK and other Asian
countries from the war, but the war also
had unmeasurable "benefits" that were
recognized then as well for example
consolidating national pride and
confidence and providing the military with
combat experience. Since 1953 the only
Korean forces, North and South, who have
experienced real combat were the Koreans
in Vietnam including a handful of North
Korean fighter pilots. That experience did
much to bolster the competence and
confidence of the South Korean Army. This
is not to justify their deployment or to
somehow legitimate the Vietnam War. I for
one believe it was a tragic unjust war for
the U.S. and its allies to have gotten
involved in, but we should not always
paint everything about the war in broad
and condemning strokes.<br>
<br>
Jiyul Kim<br>
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On 4/15/2012 10:15 AM, Katsiaficas, George
wrote:
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<div
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style="font-family:
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class="yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197119" style="font-size:
12pt;">The larger context has
bearing on your question. The
government of South Korea received
tremendous economic benefits from
the Vietnam War. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197121"
style="font-size: 12pt;">Park
Chung-hee's grandiose scheme to
build heavy industry required
enormous amounts of money</span><span
class="yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197123" style="font-size:
12pt;">, but he had only limited
domestic sources. As much as he</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">squeezed
workers and devalued the currency to
stimulate exports, he still needed
farmore capital.</span><span
class="yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197127"
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Between
1953 and 1962, US aid funded 70% of
Korea’s imports and 80% of its fixed
capital investments—about 8% of its
GNP.Once the US needed its monies to
fight the war in Vietnam, however,
it began to cut back. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197131"
style="font-size: 12pt;">In order to
find new international sources of
money, Park endorsed a key US
proposal: closer ROK ties with
Japan. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">Staunch
domestic opposition to normalization
prevented a treaty from simply being
finalized. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013Apple-style-span
yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197137" style="font-size: 16px;">On
June 3, 1964, Park declared martial
law in Seoul and dismissed dozens of
professors and students. The US
Combined Forces Commander approved
the release of two combat divisions
to suppress the protests. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Despite
thousands of students threatening to
storm the Blue House (the
presidentialresidence), Park rammed
the treaty through the rubber stamp
legislature of the Third Republic.
When the opposition went on a hunger
strike to protest the treaty, the
ruling party took one minute to
ratify it, and at the same time, it
also approved sending 20,000 troops
to Vietnam to fight on the side of
the US. </span><span
class="yiv1775233013Apple-style-span
yiv1775233013yui_3_2_0_26_1334130284197145" style="font-size: 16px;">In
exchange for normalization of
relations, Japan paid $300 million
in grants (for which Park
indemnified Japan for all its
previous actions) and made available
another half-a-billion dollars in
loans.<span
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style="vertical-align: super;"><span
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<div
class="yiv1775233013MsoNormal">Sensing
an opportunity to channel public
sentiment against the communist
enemy as well as a second avenue
to raise capital,
Park immediately offered
thousands more troops for
deployment to Vietnam. Despite
scattered student protests, war
with Vietnam proved less
controversial than his settling
of accounts with Japan. Park’s
movement of troops was so fast,
that according to figures
released by the US State
Department, there were more
South Korean soldiers fighting
in southern Vietnam in 1965 than
North Vietnamese.<a
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style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a> South
Koreans soldiers were widely
reported to be even more brutal
than their US counterparts. At
the end of 1969, some 48,000 ROK
military personnel were
stationed in Vietnam, and by the
time they completed their
withdrawal in 1973, some 300,000
veterans had fought there. ROK
casualties included 4,960 dead
and 10,962 wounded. Wars provide
experiences for military
officers who go on to inflict
future casualties. Lieutenant No
Ri-Bang served in Jeju in 1948
and went to Vietnam. Future
dictators Chun Doo Hwan and Roh
Tae-woo served together in
Vietnam, before brutally ruling
South Korea after Park’s
assassination in 1979.</div>
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<div
class="yiv1775233013MsoNormal">The
economic benefits of military
intervention in Vietnam were
extraordinary. From 1965-1970,
the South Korean government
received $1.1 billion in
payments—about 7% of GDP and 19%
of foreign earnings.<a
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style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a> More
than 80 Korean companies did
lucrative business in
Vietnam—from transportation to
supply, construction to
entertainment—from which the
country accrued another $1
billion for exports to and
services in Vietnam. Secret US
bonuses paid to Park’s
government for Korean soldiers
who fought in Vietnam totaled
$185 million from 1965-1973.
When we add all these funds to
the $1.1 billion in direct
payments, the total US
allocations to Park’s regime
amounted to about 30% of the
ROK’s foreign exchange earnings
from 1966-1969.<a
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style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Altogether
US aid to South Korea totaled
$11 billion by 1973—more than to
any other country except South
Vietnam—some 8% of worldwide US
military and foreign monies.<a
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class="yiv1775233013MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Regimes
friendly to the US in Japan,
Taiwan, the Philippines, and
Thailand also benefited greatly
from the tidal wave of dollars
that flooded the region during
the Vietnam War.</div>
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<div
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from my book, Asia's Unknown
Uprisings: Vol. 1 South Korean
Social Movements in the 20th
Century</div>
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Katsiaficas</div>
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style="font-size:
10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> See
the discussion in the
volume I edited, <i>Vietnam
Documents: American and
Vietnamese Views of the
War</i> (Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, 1992) p. 63.</span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"> Chae-Jin
Lee, pp. 55, 70.</span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"> Cumings, <i>Korea’s
Place in the Sun</i>, p.
321.</span></div>
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Hart-Landsberg 1993,
147-8.</span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"> Han
Sung-joo, “Korean Politics
in an International
Context,” in Korean
National Commission for
UNESCO (editor) <i>Korean
Politics: Striving for
Democracy and
Unification</i> (Elizabeth,
NJ: Hollym, 2002) p. 620.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span>Re:
[KS] Brian Hwang's Discussion
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valign="top">The question is
whether or not they got
bonuses in order to
"volunteer" for Vietnam. If
they got no bonuses, then
obviously they wouldn't be
"mercenaries." Even if they
got bonuses, it would be
difficult to pin the mercenary
label since soldiers in any
army generally get combat pay
when fighting overseas. Also,
I'm not sure ordinary draftees
had any say in where they were
sent.<br>
All told, 300,000 Koreans
served in Vietnam over nearly
a ten-year period. Five
thousand of them were KIA,
many more WIA. The White Horse
and Tiger divisions were the
principal units. Korean
special forces were also in
Vietnam. Those whom I have met
are proud to have served
there. Many of them, grizzled
old veterans, turn up at
demonstrations in Seoul
protesting leftist demos,
NKorean human rights
violations, North Korean
dynastic rule etc. They love
to wear their old uniforms
with ribbons awarded for
Vietnam service, including
acts of individual heroism. <br>
Some of them also talk quite
openly about what they did in
Vietnam -- and could provide
material supporting your
thesis re "the type of warfare
that they had to fight in
Vietnam,<br>
including guerrilla warfare
and civilian warfare."
Strongly suggest you come here
and interview some while
they're still around. They'd
tell you a lot, good and bad.
Sorry to say, one of them once
boasted to me of a personal
"body count" of 300 victims --
would doubt if all of them
were "enemy." On the other
hand, they were also known for
high levels of efficiency and
success in their AO's.<br>
Good luck on the project.<br>
Don Kirk<br>
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--- On <b>Sat, 4/14/12, Kevin
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Subject: Re: [KS] Brian
Hwang's Discussion Question<br>
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Date: Saturday, April 14,
2012, 1:40 PM<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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Today's Topics:<br>
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1. Discussion
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2. March 2012
Issue of
"Cross-Currents:
East Asian History
and<br>
Culture
Review" Available
Online (Center for
Korean Studies)<br>
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr
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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>
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Subject: [KS] March
2012 Issue of
"Cross-Currents:
East Asian History<br>
and Culture
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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 <a
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href="http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2">http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2</a> 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
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<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
[???????????????????]<br>
Abstract by Bin Ye,
Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences<br>
<br>
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