scholarly journals The Vietnamese Sources of Materials Related to North and South Korea, focusing on the Vietnam War period (1954-1975)

2015 ◽  
Vol null (96) ◽  
pp. 323-362
Author(s):  
도미엔
Author(s):  
Simeon Man

This chapter examines the Vietnam War through the lens of South Korea and the Philippines and their respective nation-building projects in the 1960s. It demonstrates how the two countries’ efforts to modernize their national economies dovetailed with and were dependent on their participation in the U.S. war. As the two governments mobilized their citizens for war, they generated discourses of gendered national belonging and racial intimacy with the Vietnamese that obscured their complicity with U.S. imperialism. The chapter further argues that the Vietnam War functioned as an engine of subempire for South Korea and the Philippines, that is, the relations of violence that were necessitated by the two countries’ incorporation into the capitalist world system. The chapter ends by examining the emergent counterpublics in South Korea and the Philippines that challenged their governments’ complicity in the war and their narrowed conception of citizenship and economic development.


1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1055-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen K. Hess ◽  
Dan Gossett

Seven Northern and seven Southern newspaper editorials discussing President Nixon's 3rd of November 1969 speech on the “Vietnamization” of the Vietnam War were analyzed for their attitude toward President Nixon and his proposals. Measures of attitude were manifest ratings and non-immediacy ratings. Although the manifest ratings did not indicate a difference between North and South editorials, the non-immediacy scores did show that Northern editorials were more non-immediate or less favorable toward President Nixon. As predicted, non-immediacy scores were higher for editorials rated as being less favorable. Implications for theory, further research, and applications were discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-180

Bilateral relations between South Korea and Vietnam have remarkably improved in the past 25 years, since the normalization of relations in 1992. They have been acknowledged positively as the result of a successful process of the diplomatic ties. Meanwhile, it is plausible that conflicting issues were raised while establishing diplomatic ties because the two countries were hostile during the Vietnam War. This research explores the process of normalization, which coincided with their mutual economic and geopolitical interests in international relations in the decline of socialism and the post-Cold War era. As Vietnam urgently needed to establish cooperative relations with capitalist countries, this served as a concession in overcoming the historical legacy of the Vietnam War. The process of diplomatic negotiations between South Korea and Vietnam shows that the foreign policies of small- and middle-power countries are determined not only in cooperation with their allies but also with some degree of relative autonomy in the post-Cold War era. Received 9th December 2019; Revised 2nd March 2020; Accepted 20th March 2020


2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinn-yuh Hsu ◽  
Dong-Wan Gimm ◽  
Jim Glassman

Much scholarship on East Asian development has sidelined the crucial role of geopolitics by insisting that wars such as the Vietnam War had limited effects on industrial development and economic growth patterns. We find such arguments unpersuasive, and also unduly reductionist. The Vietnam War, in particular, had unambiguously powerful effects on industrial development in South Korea; but even in cases where the direct effects of war were somewhat less spectacular, such as Taiwan, the reasons for the differences were themselves deeply geopolitical and expressive of decision-making processes centered on the Vietnam War. In this paper, we explore the differential effects of such geopolitical decision-making by contrasting the development trajectories of the Ulsan and Kaohsiung industrial zones during the war period. We show, in addition, that the subsequent development of industrial projects in South Korea and Taiwan has continued to bear some of the marks of Vietnam War-era geopolitical economy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Jade Sears

The Vietnam War is a widely examined topic in the field of international relations. However, it is often viewed in terms of the strategic triangle between the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, instead of their allies. While the atrocities committed by the United States in the Vietnam War are often condemned and scrutinized in English literature, those of South Korea, their closest ally, remain less so. This essay outlines the South Korean government's political, economic, and ideological reasons for supporting the United States in Vietnam, the positive and negative consequences of this support, and the atrocities Korean troops committed against Vietnamese civilians. It argues that the legacy of the Vietnam War in South Korea is characterized by denial and neglect to this day. This essay finds that denial and neglect were experienced not only in Vietnam, but also in South Korea by veterans and the Korean government.


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