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73 v 3 v Citizen soldiers: National servicemen in the Korean War Compulsory peacetime military service –national service –left a mark on an entire generation of young British men. Some loved it: called up in April 1948, Ron Laver argued that ‘those years were the best of our lives’.1 Others loathed it: Patrick Wye, a Private in the Royal Army Service Corps, described it in his unpublished autobiography as ‘a great cloud on the horizon of our youth’ and Barry Smith talked of getting it ‘over with’ when he was called up on 15 March 1951.2 For some, its
, in their ‘Allied defence Policy and Global Strategy’ paper, the Chiefs set out, as the ‘first essential’ to define clearly the political and military aim – of Britain and Hennessey, Britain's Korean War.indd 6 02/10/2013 09:11:40 Invasion 7 her Allies – in the struggle against Russian Communism. They concluded that the ‘enemy’s aim is quite clear – it is a communist world dominated by Moscow’. They were worried that Allied defence policy had been confused by the lack of a clear definition ‘of what we are fighting for and by a failure to recognise that our aim
4 ‘A vaccine for the nation’: South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik Introduction When the scale of hepatitis B infection in South Korea came to light in the 1970s, the emerging public debate on the disease centred on the method of transmission. South Korean medical
1 Introduction: The Korean War in Britain In the summer of 1950, the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was holidaying in Portofino on the Italian Riviera when the news broke that, on 25 June, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) had invaded its southern neighbour, the Republic of Korea (ROK). Muggeridge worried about how he and his wife would re-join their children should this be the beginning of a wider war. Journeying steadily back to Britain, Muggeridge wrote in his diary in Monte Carlo that everyone was ‘frenziedly following the Korean news, some
This book examines the ways in which Korean film reveals the ideological orientation of the society in which it is created and circulated. To understand the workings of ideology in contemporary Korea as a divided nation, this study takes a comparative approach to the films from both sides, considering gender, nationhood and class. A comparative analysis of the representation of ideology in the
1 Entanglements [T]he general difficulty of attaining unity over means, let alone ends, among people who have been robbed of political power. (Kenneth M. Wells) Despite the frequent and approving outside mentions of democracy and civil society in South Korea, many who worked inside the organisations charged with promoting democracy and civil society spoke more about the threats, failures, crises, and overall weaknesses they faced. One colleague, Scholar Lee, went so far as to assert in 2004: ‘there is no civil society, only civil groups [in South Korea] (simin
citizenship in the Japanese empire is quite striking. Recent scholarship has shattered the myth of pre-war Japan as a ‘homogeneous’ nation, pointing in particular to Japan’s internal colonisations of the Ainu and the Okinawans, processes that preceded the acquisition of the formal colonies of Taiwan in 1895 and Korea in 1910. 2 While issues of citizenship for people moving between both ‘internal’ and external colonies and the Japanese metropole were also complex, after 1895 Japan’s status as a Great Power with regard to China also opened up
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. This book explores what went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond, among other things. The combined effects of growing unemployment, rising inflation, and the absence of a meaningful social safety-net system, pushed large numbers of displaced workers and their families into poverty. Resolving Thailand's notorious non-performing loans problem will depend on the fortunes of the country's real economy, and on the success of Thai Asset Management Corporation (TAMC). Under International Monetary Fund's (IMF) oversight, the Indonesian government has also taken steps to deal with the massive debt problem. After Indonesian Debt Restructuring Agency's (INDRA) failure, the Indonesian government passed the Company Bankruptcy and Debt Restructuring and/or Rehabilitation Act to facilitate reorganization of illiquid, but financially viable companies. Economic reforms in Korea were started by Kim Dae-Jung. the partial convertibility of the Renminbi (RMB), not being heavy burdened with short-term debt liabilities, and rapid foreign trade explains China's remarkable immunity to the "Asian flu". The proposed sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) (modeled on corporate bankruptcy law) would allow countries to seek legal protection from creditors that stand in the way of restructuring, and in exchange debtors would have to negotiate with their creditors in good faith.
96 v 4 v Brainwashing in Britain: Korean War prisoners of war Brainwashing is an iconic twentieth- century term: over- used and under-analysed, its evolving usage since 1950 encapsulates many of the century’s anxieties, prejudices and lay understandings of human behaviour. It has been frequently used as a pejorative term to describe the unwitting, external manipulation of individuals and their view on the world. In modern Britain, it has been applied to topics as far-ranging as political outlooks, religious fundamentalism, history teaching and
wrong at a hundred points’. Nevertheless great hope had arisen in the world that there was a change of heart in the vast, mighty mass of Russia and this might carry them far and fast and perhaps into revolution: ‘It has been well said that the most dangerous moment for evil Governments is when they begin to reform.’ All this came to a particular point upon Korea, wrote Churchill, who was worried that the President’s speech, to be delivered to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and listing five principles defining the US position in the Cold War, would have a