Old memories of Yongsan Garrison
Posted : 2021-02-07 17:48 By Choe Chong-dae
It has been 50 years since my first visit to Yongsan Garrison in the early 1970s. I was there to attend a welcoming reception in honor of a senior United Nations Command (UNC) official. Arriving at the main gate of the base, I explained to a security guard that I was going to the UNC party at Hartell House, an officers club on South Post, and showed the invitation.
However, he called the secretary of the general hosting the party and asked him to escort me to Hartell House because I looked so young as a man in his early 20s. I managed to join the reception on time and had the honor of meeting many distinguished guests who were diplomats, Korean government officials and UNC delegates.
SEOUL, South Korea â A paper by Harvard Law School Japanese legal studies professor J. Mark Ramseyer that claims sex slaves taken by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II were actually recruited, contracted sex workers generated international controversy, academic criticism, and student petitions at Harvard this week.
The paper, âContracting for Sex in the Pacific War,â made headlines across South Korean media and was met with widespread public anger. Ramseyerâs work is set to be published in the March issue of the International Review of Law and Economics. Korean outlets picked up the news after Ramseyerâs paper was featured in a Jan. 28 press release in Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.
And then suddenly, everything kind of makes sense in this new context.
The end of WWII
Apparently,
Gong Xi Gong Xi was written in Shanghai in 1945 to celebrate the defeat of Japan and the liberation of China at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II).
The composer was Chen Gexin (陳歌辛), who wrote the music and words of the song, and who also went by pen names Lin Mei (林枚) and Qing Yu (慶餘).
He was jailed by the Imperial Japanese Army for his patriotic songs during the war.
The war and all its atrocities committed during that time might have had a profound impact on Chen, which influenced his music.
Top 10 Scariest Government Experiments
What does the term “government experiments” immediately remind you of? Many would think about weird conspiracy theories, comic book super soldiers, and even eerie mutated animals.
But nothing is farther from the truth. Of course, when you exit the fascinating world of horror flicks and comics, you’ll soon discover-to your amazement- that governments don’t have a budget to fund such fictitious programs. Rarely do these “mad scientists”- or “atomic supermen”- receive the money they earnestly request to carry out such experiments. Nevertheless, some witty scientists have convinced high-ranking state officials to sponsor some crazy projects that end up confounding everyone.