School Integration in a Small Town (1955), Love Is All You Need (2015), ‘That Flag Just Had to Come Down’ (2015), Liberation Day, (1970), It’s a Police Action, Not a War (1950), Goodnight Irene (1950), Shut Up and Get Out! (1965)
Lee’s election marks not just an end to authoritarianism, but also the dawn of Korea’s democratic revolution. The future of Korea belongs to its people.
From The Host to Kingdom, Korean filmmakers have used the horror genre as a vehicle for political critique and reached a huge global audience. They’re building on a long international tradition of socially conscious scare stories.
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Stone illustrates how the eruption of full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula advanced U.S. geopolitical interests and those of its key Asian clients.
What’s often missing from the discussion in the United States, however, is the desires of the South Korean people. For decades, South Korean citizens have been protesting U.S. military bases on their soil.
Due to their scale and provocative nature, the annual U.S.-South Korea combined exercises have long been a trigger point for heightened military and political tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
These themes resonate today: need to limit casualties among “our” troops, who are not necessarily white, though the people who control them usually are; the pretense that “precision bombing” differentiates between “lawbreakers” and “innocents."
I mourn mostly for those we have killed — and I mourn for those we haven't killed yet, but will in the days ahead.
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