Suhi Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suhi Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma? Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park
In 2011, South Korea built an unusual memorial that honors civilian victims of an American atrocity during the Korean War. This memorial, called the No Gun Ri Peace Park, particularly commemorates the No Gun Ri killings, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize–winning story that depicts the massacre by American GIs of South Korean civilians who were taking refuge underneath a bridge called No Gun Ri. As a durable war mnemonic in a public site, the park is now perf…
The repertoire, not the archive
Journalists plunge into a social drama in which they interact with other actors, witness an event, and translate their observations into sensible texts to communicate with audiences who are not ‘on location’. A journalist’s account is the partial representation of the very reality that he or she constructs at the moment of witnessing an event within a specific context. A journalistic text thus does not merely create the archive, but works as the …
Standing between intransient history and transient memories
Since its inception in 1957, the statue of General Douglas MacArthur at Incheon City in South Korea has been a robust signifier of the American rescuing mission during the Korean War that originally was meant to evoke gratitude among the South Koreans. Yet, South Korean activists in 2005 took iconoclastic actions against the statue, calling the public’s critical attention to both MacArthur’s actions and to the role of the United States during the…
Mythologizing Memories
Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, loc…
Communicating Trauma
In 2000, the Associated Press investigative report team won the Pulitzer Prize award for reporting on the No Gun Ri incident in which American troops during the Korean War killed innocent civilian refugees who had taken shelter near and under the bridge called No Gun Ri. As the primary witnesses of the No Gun Ri killings, female survivors have courageously communicated their unutterable trauma through both scripting and exorcizing. Through oral h…
The new history and the old present
The purpose of this research is twofold: first to deconstruct how Battle for Korea, a compilation form of mainstream history documentary, has utilized newly unearthed archival images and, second, to examine whether this docu-mentary either reinforces or counters dominant narratives in the US collective memories of the Korean War. In order to critically understand a text, one should be able to locate it within the larger, continuously evolving con…
Silencing Survivors’ Narratives
This essay examines how the U.S. media has remembered and forgotten again the incident in which U.S. troops killed South Korean civilians who were taking refuge on the trestles of the No Gun Ri bridge in an early stage of the Korean War. Through textual analysis and oral history interviews, the research identifies narratives from both front stage (the U.S. media) and back stage (survivors’ testimonies). The study concludes that through reaffirmin…
Silencing Survivors’ Narratives
This essay examines how the U.S. media has remembered and forgotten again the incident in which U.S. troops killed South Korean civilians who were taking refuge on the trestles of the No Gun Ri bridge in an early stage of the Korean War. Through textual analysis and oral history interviews, the research identifies narratives from both front stage (the U.S. media) and back stage (survivors’ testimonies). The study concludes that through reaffirmin…
Standing between intransient history and transient memories
Since its inception in 1957, the statue of General Douglas MacArthur at Incheon City in South Korea has been a robust signifier of the American rescuing mission during the Korean War that originally was meant to evoke gratitude among the South Koreans. Yet, South Korean activists in 2005 took iconoclastic actions against the statue, calling the public’s critical attention to both MacArthur’s actions and to the role of the United States during the…
Communicating Trauma
In 2000, the Associated Press investigative report team won the Pulitzer Prize award for reporting on the No Gun Ri incident in which American troops during the Korean War killed innocent civilian refugees who had taken shelter near and under the bridge called No Gun Ri. As the primary witnesses of the No Gun Ri killings, female survivors have courageously communicated their unutterable trauma through both scripting and exorcizing. Through oral h…
Can a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma? Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park
In 2011, South Korea built an unusual memorial that honors civilian victims of an American atrocity during the Korean War. This memorial, called the No Gun Ri Peace Park, particularly commemorates the No Gun Ri killings, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize–winning story that depicts the massacre by American GIs of South Korean civilians who were taking refuge underneath a bridge called No Gun Ri. As a durable war mnemonic in a public site, the park is now perf…
The repertoire, not the archive
Journalists plunge into a social drama in which they interact with other actors, witness an event, and translate their observations into sensible texts to communicate with audiences who are not ‘on location’. A journalist’s account is the partial representation of the very reality that he or she constructs at the moment of witnessing an event within a specific context. A journalistic text thus does not merely create the archive, but works as the …
Mythologizing Memories
Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, loc…
Silencing Survivors’ Narratives
This essay examines how the U.S. media has remembered and forgotten again the incident in which U.S. troops killed South Korean civilians who were taking refuge on the trestles of the No Gun Ri bridge in an early stage of the Korean War. Through textual analysis and oral history interviews, the research identifies narratives from both front stage (the U.S. media) and back stage (survivors’ testimonies). The study concludes that through reaffirmin…
The new history and the old present
The purpose of this research is twofold: first to deconstruct how Battle for Korea, a compilation form of mainstream history documentary, has utilized newly unearthed archival images and, second, to examine whether this docu-mentary either reinforces or counters dominant narratives in the US collective memories of the Korean War. In order to critically understand a text, one should be able to locate it within the larger, continuously evolving con…
Communicating Trauma
In 2000, the Associated Press investigative report team won the Pulitzer Prize award for reporting on the No Gun Ri incident in which American troops during the Korean War killed innocent civilian refugees who had taken shelter near and under the bridge called No Gun Ri. As the primary witnesses of the No Gun Ri killings, female survivors have courageously communicated their unutterable trauma through both scripting and exorcizing. Through oral h…
Standing between intransient history and transient memories
Since its inception in 1957, the statue of General Douglas MacArthur at Incheon City in South Korea has been a robust signifier of the American rescuing mission during the Korean War that originally was meant to evoke gratitude among the South Koreans. Yet, South Korean activists in 2005 took iconoclastic actions against the statue, calling the public’s critical attention to both MacArthur’s actions and to the role of the United States during the…
Mythologizing Memories
Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, loc…
The repertoire, not the archive
Journalists plunge into a social drama in which they interact with other actors, witness an event, and translate their observations into sensible texts to communicate with audiences who are not ‘on location’. A journalist’s account is the partial representation of the very reality that he or she constructs at the moment of witnessing an event within a specific context. A journalistic text thus does not merely create the archive, but works as the …
Can a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma? Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park
In 2011, South Korea built an unusual memorial that honors civilian victims of an American atrocity during the Korean War. This memorial, called the No Gun Ri Peace Park, particularly commemorates the No Gun Ri killings, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize–winning story that depicts the massacre by American GIs of South Korean civilians who were taking refuge underneath a bridge called No Gun Ri. As a durable war mnemonic in a public site, the park is now perf…
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