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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Hillary Clinton has said about the Korean youth something to the effect: "Koreans suffer historical amnesia." |
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nateium
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: RoK view of Korean War? |
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| applesandshanana wrote: |
This seemed the most appropriate forum for my question, although its not necessarily current.
I'm planning on teaching in Korea next summer, but right now I teach high school social studies in the states. One of the first things I'll touch on with my 11th graders is the Korean War. With all the Korea-thinking I've been doing lately, I started wondering how the Korean perspective of the war differs from the American. The textbook we use gives a pathetic three pages to the conflict, which is more about MacArthur being fired than the situation itself.
How is the war seen there? Is it brought up at all in your classes? |
Honestly, in my conversations with Korean friends/students/and some random people, I can't get any consensus about what Koreans generally think and feel about the Korean war. I've heard every opinion from every angle. I don't know if there is a "Korean Perspective," but yes it does seem many young people suffer from "historical amnesia." |
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postfundie
Joined: 28 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: |
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1. Pretty Korean butterflies are being sucked into US bomber engines and are making their planes crash.
2. North and South Korean soldiers get lost and end up in the land that time forgot and learn how they shouldn't fight each other and that Korean traditional life was oh so very perfect.
3. US gets annoyed that their planes keep on crashing and think that its AA guns not butterflies and start bombing *beep* in an attempt to keep their planes from getting downed in the future.
4. In an act of truly monumental idiotcy the South and North Korean soldiers decide that since the US is only bombing the area because they think that there's AA guns shooting at them, the logical course of action would be to set up AA guns and shoot at American planes. North and South unite against the evil Americans who kill cute little butterflies and they get an American pilot to go along since he has witnesses the glory of traditional Korean culture!
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......lol!
Anyway I gotta degree in History and I've asked tons of students about their views on the war...Young people don't know Jack Sh!t.....with the older ones they usually just say it was a tragedy but recognize that the North was to blame.....a few anti-Americans here but nothing like lefties I found teaching in Spain.... |
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