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Korean War Traumas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Heonik Kwon
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This is the first of two paired articles which view the U.S.-Korean War through the lens not of great power conflict, or even of civil war, but from the perspective of its impact on Korean society in countryside and city, and the continuing traumas that remain unresolved sixty years late. The second article is

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 38 , September 2010 , e2
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[1] This essay is based on a speech delivered at the conference “The Korean War Today” at the Korea Society, New York, on September 10, 2010, as part of a sixtieth year Korean War anniversary event. I thank the Korea Society and Charles Armstrong for inviting me to this memorable occasion. The story “In the Realm of Buddha” by Park Wan-suh is available in English: The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009).

[2] Kim, Song-chil, In the Face of History: A Historian's Diary of 6.25 (Seoul: Changbi, 1993, in Korean).

[3] Park, Wan-suh, Who Ate Up All the Shinga? An Autobiographical Novel, translated by Young-na Yu and Stephen Epstein (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

[4] Hyun, Gil-on, Relations (Seoul: Koryowon, 2001, in Korean).

[5] Steven Hugh Lee, The Korean War (New York: Longman, 2001).

[6] Kim, Dong-choon, The Unending Korean War: A Social History, translated by Sung-ok Kim (Larkspur, CA: Tamal Vista Publications, 2009), pp. 3-38. See this article.

[7] Park, Chan-sung, The Korean War That Went into the Village: The Korean War's Small Village Wars (Paju, Kyunggi-do: Dolbege, 2010, in Korean).

[8] See this article.