The Role of Religions for Peace and Unification in the Era o f Great Transition around the Korean Peninsula

Abstract Japanese black pine with high salt tolerance may be an important constitutive element sustaining terrestrial ecosystem by playing a role of windbreak forests in coastal areas. Korean peninsula would be a notable region in clarifying distribution shift in Pinus species as it has northern distribution limit of Japanese black pine in Asia. Our main object was to verify genetic evidence of stable northward extension of P.thunbergii populations in D. P. R. Korea. We investigated genetic background of 9 populations existing in Korean peninsula using nuclear SSR markers in relation to shifts in climate factors such as temperature and precipitation. Higher genetic diversity in east group (AR=10.7~19.5) and west group (AR=10.3~10.7) compared to north group (AR=6.7~8.8) was found. When number of putative clusters (K) = 2, whole individuals were divided into west group and north-east group, and when K=3, north-east group can be separated into north group and east group. Phylogeographic relationship verified by means of nSSR markers suggest that substantial increment of air temperature in D. P. R. Korea allowed stable anthropogenic transfer of P.thunbergii forests and that artificial afforestation may bring rapid establishment of forest ecosystem owing to climate change.

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(Re)mapping the Yanggongju and the Camptown in Shin Sang-ok's Hellflower

Feminist Media Histories ◽

10.1525/fmh.2020.6.2.43 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 43-66

Author(s):

Laura Ha Reizman

Keyword(s):

Korean Peninsula ◽

Korean War ◽

The South ◽

Military Dictatorship ◽

New Era ◽

South Korean ◽

Us Military ◽

The Korean War ◽

Love Triangle

The Korean War (1950–53) changed the material and affective landscape of the Korean peninsula and ushered in a new era ruled by a military dictatorship dependent on US military power. With bases dotting the South Korean peninsula, former agricultural villages became camptowns that catered to the needs of American soldiers. This article focuses on the South Korean melodrama Chiokhwa (Hellflower, 1958), directed by Shin Sang-ok, which narrates a love triangle between two brothers and Sonya, a camptown prostitute or yanggongju. It examines the role of the postwar environment in constructing the spaces of the subject. Using the yanggongju figure as a technology of postwar memory, this work reevaluates the ecology of ruination left in the wake of the Korean War—as portrayed through Sonya, scenes of the city, the camptown, the base, and the surrounding fields and marshes—to explore the sense of loss and displacement of this period.

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