[RAS Korea] Sociology in Korea 50 years ago
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수술실 CCTV, 국민 80%는 달아달라는데 의료계의 저항 통할까
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GIs in the Land of the Morning Calm
Posted : 2021-03-02 23:38
Updated : 2021-03-04 19:17 U.S. and Korean soldiers working together, published in The Korea Times Jan. 1, 1978. / Korea Times Archive By Martin Limon
I think of myself as the Forrest Gump of Korea.
During five tours, starting in 1968 and ending in 1986, I stumbled into such a vast array of experiences that it provided me, I believe, with a unique view of not only the secretive and insular life of the 8th United States Army but more importantly an insight into how we lowly enlisted G.I.s interacted ― and often clashed ― with the broader Korean culture.
[Korea Encounters] Looking down high noses at quack plastic surgeons in 1971
Posted : 2021-01-26 17:55
Updated : 2021-01-26 18:51
By Matt VanVolkenburg At one section of Yonsei Medical Center, strange things are happening. A harelipped boy steps out with a normal mouth. A flat-nosed girl consults a doctor; next day, out comes gingerly a piquant face with that forward-look nose. These miraculous changes are the results of modern plastic surgery, which in Korea found a home at the plastic surgery section of the hospital a year ago.
So began a Korea Times article on June 18, 1964, about Lew Jae-duk, an early Korean pioneer of plastic surgery who was trained in the U.S. Prior to the department opening at Yonsei Medical Center, Korea s first plastic surgery department was established at Severance Hospital in 1961.