[KS] The 98th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (Hyuk-Rae Kim, Yonsei University)

[Renate Clasen]

The Korean Studies Program and the Korea Foundation would like to
invite you to attend the 98th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum.

Title: "U.S. military bases in Korea: The true story of a massive cash cow?"
Speaker: Dr. Luc Walhain, Assistant Professor of History at St. Thomas
University, Canada
Date: THURSDAY, April 29
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Room 702, New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University

No RSVP required. For directions, please refer to
http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007.

Questions? Contact renateclasen at googlemail.com

This will be our first forum in the spring semester 2010.
We hope to see you on the 29th of April.

Sincerely,

Hyuk-Rae Kim
hyukrae at yonsei.ac.kr
Professor of Korean Studies
Graduate School of International Studies
Yonsei University

biography | Dr. Luc Walhain is Assistant Professor of History at St. Thomas
University in Canada.
He has received a Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research to conduct
his study on U.S. military bases in Korea.  His other research interests
include Korean History, student and civic movements, democracy and social
justice, and social history.

abstract | As happens typically around foreign military bases elsewhere,
U.S. bases in Korea have given rise to prostitution, violence and
environmental damage.  However, this study examines a less known corollary
of foreign military bases: trafficking.  Black marketeering has been
thriving around American bases in Korea, and has been so serious at times
that some top military officials have stated that it could be threatening
the military preparedness of the USFK.  A historical study of this acute
phenomenon in Korea seems to indicate that neither the Korean nor American
governments have resolved to put an end to this trafficking in commodities
and human beings.  Indeed, the network of U.S. military bases in Asia has
served as a natural conduit to globalise the illegal dealings.  What is at
stake?  In which ways have U.S. military bases been a massive cash cow?
What are the socio-economic implications?
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