Eternal flowers and butterflies 🌺🖤
This precious hibiscus is national flower of South Korea!
무궁화 (Rose of sharon) [Hibiscus syriacus]
(Floriography : Eternity and single-minded)
Spangle - Summer adults (Papilio protenor)
(F) Alpine black swallowtail - Summer adults (Papilio maackii)
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John Upshur Dennis Page, Princeton University Class of 1926, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously on December 19, 1956 for heroic action leading to his death on December 11, 1950, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir (Korean War).
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Lai Dai Han (Lai Đại Hàn): The Truth that's Inconvenient for Korea (Essay)
Statue of Lai Dai Han
The 320,000 Korean troops sent to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War committed a war crime that will never be forgotten. Under the pretext of wiping out the Viet Cong in South Vietnam, they indiscriminately massacred local people and gang-raped women, causing countless children (5,000-30,000). These children are called "Lai Dai Han" (children of mixed race with Korean soldiers). They are not accepted in either Vietnam or Korea and live in discrimination.
In the extreme conditions of the battlefield, the true nature of human beings is revealed, but what about the wildness of these Korean soldiers? They are no less cruel than American or Russian soldiers. In Korea, the topic of Lai Dai Han is taboo, and although there were media outlets that tried to cover it, the Veterans' Association headed by former President Chun Doo-hwan (全斗煥) suppressed it. Chun Doo-hwan was the commander of the Vietnam Expeditionary Forces. Vietnam, which wants economic assistance from Korea, does not want to touch on the Lai Dai Han.
South Korea, which has committed such evil deeds, is persistently erecting statues of comfort women around the world to criticize Japan for the "comfort women issue," which is said that the Japanese military Kidnapped Korean women and made them "sex slaves", but this is ridiculous. In the first place, the "comfort women issue" is a fabrication by the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) of Japan, and South Korea is just taking advantage of the situation of it. In the face of the Vicious Lai Dai Han issue, South Korea has no right to criticize anything including Japan. (The Japanese military consensually employed Korean women as prostitutes. Not sex slaves.) The UK has erected in Vietnam a statue of Lai Dai Han in front of the South Korean embassy to commemorate the evil deeds. Japan should also erect a statue of Lai Dai Han next to the statue of comfort women all over the world.
Rei Morishita
2024.07.21
ライダイハン:韓国にとって都合の悪い真実(エッセイ)
ベトナム戦争の折、派遣された韓国軍32万人は、決して消えない戦争犯罪を犯している。それは南ベトナムでベトコンを掃討する名目で、現地の人を無差別に虐殺、また女性を輪姦して夥しい数(5000-3万)の子供たちを生ませたことだ。この子供たちを「ライダイハン」(韓国兵との混血児)と呼ぶ。彼らはベトナムでも韓国でも受け入れらえず、差別されて生きている。
戦場という極限状態において、人間の本性があらわになるが、この韓国兵たちの荒みぶりはどうだろう。アメリカ兵、ロシア兵にも劣らない酷さだ。韓国では、ライダイハンの話題はタブーであるし、取り上げようとするマスコミはあったが、韓国大統領も務めた全斗煥を首魁とする退役軍人会が握りつぶした。全斗煥はベトナム派遣韓国軍の指揮官だった。韓国の経済的援助が欲しいベトナムも、ライダイハンには触れたくない。
こんな悪行をする韓国が、日本軍が朝鮮人女性を誘拐し「性奴隷」にしたとされる「従軍慰安婦問題」で、非難のため世界に慰安婦像をしつこく立てまくっているが、ちゃんちゃらおかしい。そもそも「従軍慰安婦問題」は日本の朝日新聞の捏造であり、それに韓国は乗っているに過ぎない。ライダイハンを前にすると、韓国がなにか非難する筋合いはない。(実際、日本軍は、合意の上で韓国人女性を売春婦として雇っていた。)イギリスは、ベトナムで、韓国大使館の前に、ライダイハン像を立て、その悪行を顕彰している。日本も従軍慰安婦像の隣に、ライダイハン像を立てるとよい。
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This is Joseph Ambrose, he was a 86-year-old World War I veteran. In 1982 he attended the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War.”
Credit: Department of Defense. Defense Audiovisual Agency; Scene Camera Operator: Mickey Sanborn
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D. Va goes so fucking crazy conceptually and it’s hardly the top of Blizzard’s list of crimes but having a character who’s career is a direct pipeline from professional gamer to soldier before 18 who pilots a #sponsored mech that uses video game ui elements and joysticks and she shouts quirky gamer slang while killing people in the name of a private military organization and then doing absolutely nothing with that is fucking CRAZY. like.
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hey tumblr this is a fairly niche topic but its been pressing on my mind recently so:
back in late march i went to the sackler gallery in DC and they had an exhibit for korean artist Park Chan-Kyong, centered on his film Gathering. My friend and I found the darkness and relatively empty area of the film Fukushima: Autoradiography and Child Soldier to be really nice so we ended up there for around 2 hours, during which the film(s) looped at least three times. At some point in the runtime of Child Soldier a song came on, which I found to be good and wanted to know what it's called. Unfortunately I did not get a recording of the song nor am I able to find ANY information about this one specific film outside of the website for the sackler gallery, which only lists it alongside the others and does no more. There are no online recordings of it, no audio clips, no wikipedia page, NOTHING. If any of you by chance are familiar with Park Chan-Kyong's work, please help me find the song. please. it was so good
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