The War's Impact on the Korean Peninsula

Bibliographic Data

ID12408557
AuthorsB C Koh (1University of Illinois at Chicago, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume2
Issue1
Pages57-76
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American-East Asian Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1058-3947 • E-ISSN: 1876-5610
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/187656193x00086
OpenAlexW2061580935
LanguageEN
Citations received4

There are perhaps only two other events in modern Korean history that can rival the Korean War in terms of the scope and duration of impact on the Korean people. They are Japanese colonial rule (1910 45) and the partition of the Korean peninsula in the wake of the Japanese surrender in World War II. During the three-year conflict (1950-53) about three million Koreans were killed, wounded, or miss ing. Those whose families were broken up by the war numbered an astounding ten million—a third of the combined population of the two Korean states in the early 1950s. Four decades after the Korean Armistice, the separated family members have yet to be reunited; the wall dividing the Korean people remains to be dismantled, even though the prospects for its gradual removal have improved measurably in the past year or so. The war has had such a pervasive impact on Korean society and politics that it is hard to find an area that can be totally insulated from it

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Genealogy · Geography · Korean population · Partition (number theory · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Surrender · World War II · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Demography · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Medicine

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub