The Legacy of the Disciplining State from Manchukuo to South Korea — MUST READ!!!

Also in Japan Focus is an article by Dong-a University professor Han Suk-jung on Manchukuo’s legacy to Korea. By all means a MUST READ — just wish I’d seen it sooner.

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3 Comments

  1. virtual wonderer your flag
    Posted July 23, 2005 at 3:42 am | Permalink

    a great read. My grandfather actually went to manchuria as a land surveyor back in the day. He was a lifelong GNP supporter–an irony since he lived in Junlado. I think so many korea-watcher neophytes are shocked at hanchongryun kids that they don’t realize who taught them to be that way.

  2. virtual wonderer your flag
    Posted July 23, 2005 at 3:45 am | Permalink

    btw, can we just castrate, decapitate, and send these spammers to detroit?

  3. lirelou your flag
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    While the article was informative, I found it “light” in that lacks a lot of detail. The authortells us that the Arirang festival was (also) celebrated in Manchukuo, but he does not elaborate further. Did the term mean the same thing as it does in Korea? Was it introduced by ethnic Koreans? Or is the term also indigenous to Manchuria? Certain former members of the Manchukuo Army are mentioned as being in the ROK Army. But, what were the percentages of former Manchukuo Army veterans (officer or NCO) who founded the ROK Army, versus those from the Imperial Japanese Army, Kwangtung Army, or Korean resistance armies? But, I agree with JTB. THe Marmot always finds stuff to expand our (Korean) horizons.

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