[KS] U.S. involvement in the Gwangju Uprising

[don kirk]

Another: "The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Accounts of Korea`s Tiananmen," edited by Henry Scott-Stokes and Lee Jae Eui, contains accounts by journalists who were there, Korean and foreign. No, I didn`t write one of them, but my picture appears in the book interviewing a victim in a hospital. And "Korea Witness: 135 Years of War Crisis and News on the Korean Peninsula," which I edited along with Choe Sang-hun, has a a section on Kwangju, not to mention a piece in which I recounted a little of my experiences there. Incidentally, some years later, I was at the Tiananmen Square uprising -- evoked eerie memories of Kwangju.
Don Kirk 


--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Balazs Szalontai <aoverl at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


From: Balazs Szalontai <aoverl at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [KS] U.S. involvement in the Gwangju Uprising
To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011, 6:17 AM





Let me add one more book to the list:
 
James V. Young, Eye on Korea : An Insider Account of Korean-American Relations. The author was a U.S. defense attache in Seoul at that time, and due to his position, he seems to have a somewhat better insight into the mindset of Chun Doo Hwan and his co-generals than Ambassador Gleysteen.
 
Best regards,
Balazs




From: Kent Allen Davy <kentdavy at gmail.com>
To: Young Eun Chae <youngeunchae at yahoo.com>; Korean Studies DiscussionList <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws> 
Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011, 14:31
Subject: Re: [KS] U.S. involvement in the Gwangju Uprising




I imagine anyone conscientously interested in getting the full picture would want to look at the books by Ambassador Gleysteen:  

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis and 
General Wickham:  Korea on the Brink: A Memoir of Political Intrigue and Military Crisis 


Kent

"The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding." 






On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Young Eun Chae <youngeunchae at yahoo.com> wrote:






Hello.
 
I have a student doing a research on the U.S. involvement in the Gwangju Uprising.  Other than Linda Lewis' book, I am not familiar with any other sources.  Could anyone recommend where to find the discussions of American role in Gwangju?  Thank you very much.
 
Sincerely,
 
Young Eun Chae
 
 

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