Not many Koreans are aware of the fact that the war Americans refer to as the ‘forgotten war’ is the Korean War. For Americans, the Korean War was a war that took place in a distant and little-known country somewhere in Asia, a war that officially amounted to a mere ‘police action’, since war was no...
Not many Koreans are aware of the fact that the war Americans refer to as the ‘forgotten war’ is the Korean War. For Americans, the Korean War was a war that took place in a distant and little-known country somewhere in Asia, a war that officially amounted to a mere ‘police action’, since war was not formally declared. Seeing the Korean War Veterans Memorial constructed in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. made me think about the memory that Americans have of this so-called forgotten war, as well as the significance of the war for Americans. Popular opinion that a Korean War memorial should be constructed in the National Mall arose following the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. This movement led to the passage, in 1986, of a resolution in the U.S. Congress to construct a memorial for the veterans of the Korean War. The process of establishing a new public monument in the capitol is a complicated one, however, and after passing through a labyrinth of artists, construction companies, committees, and federal regulations and politics, the memorial was finally constructed in 1995. The memorial consists of three sections: the Pool of Rememberance. vivid statues of 19 soldiers, wearing ponchos, on patrol on a cold and windy day, and a 50-meter granite wall on which the faces of randomly chosen Korean War veterans have been engraved. This final result of Korean War Veterans Memorial, however, can not be fully explained without a discussion in the context of the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Cemetery, with its famous depiction of the heroic victory in Iwo Jima during World War Two, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is adjacent to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, because the Korean War Veterans Memorial occupies a rhetorical space between those two opposed memorials. Of particular interest is the fact that the memorial is influenced by photo journalism, such as the photographs by David Douglas Duncan, since those photographs provided the image of the Korean War for the majority of Americans. As a public monument, the Korean War Veterans Memorial raises the following issues: what meaning does it communicate to those who visit it? Whose memories of the war are being remembered in this war memorial, and how much authority do those memories have? For Koreans who visit the memorial, it is difficult to identify with. It contains no images of Korean soldiers nor any experiences Koreans underwent. Korea is remembered only as a cold, windy and distant foreign land. Ultimately, it re-confirms the fact that there is a chasm between how Koreans experienced and remember the Korean War and how Americans experienced and remember it.
Not many Koreans are aware of the fact that the war Americans refer to as the ‘forgotten war’ is the Korean War. For Americans, the Korean War was a war that took place in a distant and little-known country somewhere in Asia, a war that officially amounted to a mere ‘police action’, since war was not formally declared. Seeing the Korean War Veterans Memorial constructed in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. made me think about the memory that Americans have of this so-called forgotten war, as well as the significance of the war for Americans. Popular opinion that a Korean War memorial should be constructed in the National Mall arose following the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. This movement led to the passage, in 1986, of a resolution in the U.S. Congress to construct a memorial for the veterans of the Korean War. The process of establishing a new public monument in the capitol is a complicated one, however, and after passing through a labyrinth of artists, construction companies, committees, and federal regulations and politics, the memorial was finally constructed in 1995. The memorial consists of three sections: the Pool of Rememberance. vivid statues of 19 soldiers, wearing ponchos, on patrol on a cold and windy day, and a 50-meter granite wall on which the faces of randomly chosen Korean War veterans have been engraved. This final result of Korean War Veterans Memorial, however, can not be fully explained without a discussion in the context of the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Cemetery, with its famous depiction of the heroic victory in Iwo Jima during World War Two, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is adjacent to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, because the Korean War Veterans Memorial occupies a rhetorical space between those two opposed memorials. Of particular interest is the fact that the memorial is influenced by photo journalism, such as the photographs by David Douglas Duncan, since those photographs provided the image of the Korean War for the majority of Americans. As a public monument, the Korean War Veterans Memorial raises the following issues: what meaning does it communicate to those who visit it? Whose memories of the war are being remembered in this war memorial, and how much authority do those memories have? For Koreans who visit the memorial, it is difficult to identify with. It contains no images of Korean soldiers nor any experiences Koreans underwent. Korea is remembered only as a cold, windy and distant foreign land. Ultimately, it re-confirms the fact that there is a chasm between how Koreans experienced and remember the Korean War and how Americans experienced and remember it.
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