Introduction: The Korean War in the Domestic Contextdoi:10.1163/187656193X00059Akira Iriye
It not only influenced modern Chinese politics but also played a significant role in constructing the urban space and culture of Shanghai. The first chapter studies the legal bases of the police in the French Concession and the special context of Shanghai. By analyzing the relevant articles of ...
In 1948, North Korea (formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) was founded under President KIM Il Sung, who consolidated power and cemented autocratic one-party rule under the Korean Worker's Party (KWP). After the Korean War (1950-53), during which North ...
Webster (1960) cites the following as an example of Korean Bamboo English, a pidginized variety of English that flourished for a brief while during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He cautions as follows (p. 261): 'I would surmise it was written by a relatively sophisticated soldier,'...
First, I’m going to introduce of HWPL’s Chairman Man Hee Lee.Short BiographyAs a Korean War Veteran, he has not forgotten the suffering he and his fellow soldiers endured in their youth during the War. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the independence of Korea, Mr. Lee proclaimed ...
In modern times, during the Vietnam war kimchi became commercially industrialized in order to provide ration to the Korean troops. Nowadays kimchi has begun crossing the borders of Korea and is well on its way to becoming an international phenomenon. Kimchi is basically a fermented side dish ...
He is also the President and Founder of Korean American IT Association group, known as KAITA (www.kaita.org). He is an avid coder spending extra time on building side projects at cafes, and he travels every week on business. He also loves to work out daily and to grow KAITA....
This chapter gives an overview of Korean-in-Japan film history, with a particular focus on the curatorial and critical impulse, evident from the late 1980s onwards, to name and map out a category of ‘Zainichi cinema’, drawing on broad swathes of film practice stretching back to the colonia...
And in postwar Korea and Southeast Asia, the United States pursued peace with appalling violence. The total tonnage of bombs dropped on Korea by US air forces in the Korean War (1950–1953) was four times the tonnage dropped on over sixty Japanese cities during the American firebombing raids...
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