Between North and South: Colombia in Korean War Exhibitions

2022 ◽  
pp. 203-225
Author(s):  
Gina Catherine León Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
North And South

Can We Live as One Family? Rethinking the Two Koreas' Kinship in John Hoon's Kang Tek-koo

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
SUK-YOUNG KIM
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Language ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
North And South

John Hoon's play, Kang Tek-koo, tells the story of the unexpected encounter between two half-brothers, one South Korean and the other North Korean, in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the play, the conventional tragic scene of the reunion of the family members separated by the Korean War is dealt with in a resilient comic spirit from the perspective of a younger generation of South Koreans. This article examines the production of Kang Tek-koo by the South Korean company Apple Theatre, which took place in 2001 – a time when the fluid dynamics of globalization were encompassing Korea, and the transnational flow of media, people, and ideology opened up the possibility for North and South Koreans to interact and search for a common language, culture, home and nationhood.

Korean Society: North and South

North Korea ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McEachern
Keyword(s):  
Classification System ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Kim Il Sung ◽  
The North ◽  
System P ◽  
Social Classification ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
North And South

What is North Korea’s Songbun social classification system? After the Korean War, North Korea’s founder and leader Kim Il Sung aggressively moved to enhance his personal power at the top of the North Korean system. He continued to purge individuals and factions that...

The Korean War (1950–1953)

Secret Wars ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 142-186
Author(s):  
Austin Carson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Korean War ◽  
International System ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
The United States ◽  
Covert Action ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Primary Materials ◽  
North And South

This chapter shifts the focus to the early Cold War, as conflict between North and South Korea threatened to again plunge the wider international system into war. The Korean War, fought from 1950 to 1953, grew to include multiple outside interventions. Yet despite Soviet, American, and Chinese combat participation, the war was successfully limited to the Korean peninsula. As such, this chapter reviews primary materials on a poorly understood aspect of the Korean War: Soviet–American air-to-air combat over North Korea. Records released since the end of the Cold War document how Washington and Moscow engaged in a deadly multiyear struggle for air supremacy and used secrecy to contain its effects. The chapter includes new archival material on American intelligence showing anticipation, detection, and concealment of the Soviet covert entry. It also assesses the United States' initial decision to intervene overtly, its turn to covert action against mainland China, and China's complex role in the war. This chapter argues that China's initial ground intervention used secrecy to achieve surprise, following an operational security logic, but used an unacknowledged “volunteer” intervention to limit the war.

Postcolonial Interracial Intimacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-136
Author(s):  
Su Yun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Japanese Film ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Patriarchal Narratives ◽  
North And South

This chapter discusses postcolonial intimacy by surveying post-1945 cultural productions on Korean–Japanese intermarriage. It offers a short sketch of the construction of the postcolonial memory of colonial intimacy in South Korean popular culture and analyzes the normalization of Korean patriarchal narratives about Korean–Japanese relationships. It also reviews the “Hyŏnhaet'an” narrative with the movie Hyŏnhaet'an Ŭn algoitta in 1961 and the post-1998 lifting of the ban on Japanese culture in South Korea, particularly the differences between the reception of the Japanese film Hotaru in Japan and Korea. The chapter looks at the 2010s, with the movies Tŏkhye ongju (The last princess), Agassi (The handmaiden), and Pak Yŏl (Anarchist from colony). It recounts the Korean War and the Cold War politics that dominated both North and South for the next few decades and impeded the decolonization process in the Korean Peninsula.

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