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Works Cited & Consulted
Chisholm, Donald. “Escape by Sea: The Hungnam Redeployment.” Joint Forces Quarterly Spring/Summer (2001): 54-62.
Choe, Sang-Hun. “A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers.” The New York Times, May 2, 2023.
Chung, Patrick. “From Korea to Vietnam: Local Labor, Multinational Capital, and the Evolution of US Military Logistics, 1950-97.” Radical History Review 133 (2019): 31-55.
Hong, Young-son. Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Jeon, Minkyoung. “Why and how did ‘voluntary’ mass immigration of South Korean nurses and miners to West Germany occur in the 1960s and 70s?” Asian Journal of Political Science 29, no. 3 (2021): 301-315.
Jeong, Janice Hyeju. “South Korean Labor and Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia during the Late Cold War.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 43, no. 3 (2023): 471-484.
Jun, Suk-ho & Daniel Dayan. “An Interactive Media Event: South Korea’s Televised ‘Family Reunion.’” Journal of Communications 36, no. 2 (1986): 73-82.
Kim, Eleana. “Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Transnational Adoptees as Specters of Foreignness and Family in South Korea.” Anthropological Quarterly 80, no. 2 (2007): 497-531.
Kim, Elli S. “Intertextual Dynamics in Ode to My Father: Competing Narratives of the Nation and the People.” International Journal of Korean History 20, no. 1 (2015): 153-160.
Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. Cornell University Press, 2001.
Lee, Min Yong. “The Vietnam War: South Korea’s Search for National Security.” In The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea, edited by Byung-Kook Kim and Ezra F. Vogel, 403-430. Harvard University Press, 2013.
Lie, John. Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea. Stanford University Press, 1998.
Park, Jeong-Mi. The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea. University of California Press, 2024.
Park, Kuenho. “The Vietnam War and the ‘Miracle of East Asia.’” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4, no. 3 (2023): 372-399.
Roberts, Suin. “The Gendered Migration Experience: South Korean Nurses in West Germany.” In Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia: Transnational Perspectives since 1980, edited by Joanne Miyang Cho and Douglas T. McGetchin, 195-212. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.
Yu, Jinyoung and Jungwook Seo. “Development support as education aid or labor trade? South Korean nurses in West Germany (1965-1976).” Asia Europe Journal 22 (2024): 225-244.
Online Resources
The Korean Film Archive’s YouTube channel, Korean Classic Film, hosts many beautifully restored South Korean films with subtitles.
Asia for Educators contains resources for teaching about East Asia, including the Koreas.
The Wilson Center Digital Archive hosts information about the two Koreas involvement in the Vietnam War.
The KBS Archive of Finding Dispersed Families includes some translated materials in English, as well as a wealth of resources related to the program in Korean.
The third season of the well-researched podcast Blowback concerns the Korean War. The producers have listed their sources, a large selection of scholarly and journalistic work on the conflict, on the podcast’s Blowback's website.
This film guide was developed by Julia Keblinska, The Ohio State University and is available online for classroom use worldwide. The film guides can be accessed at EASC's Film Guide page.