This
reading has reinforced a lot of my experiences that I had as someone who had
come back from South Korea and Thailand. I had my own expectations with my
study abroad experience in South Korea, and now knowing the history and
background of the wars associated with these countries, it has given me a
deeper understanding of the invisible contexts that all has faced.
The
Korean War is one of the few histories that are not discussed about because we
see that the current South Korea’s success has overshadowed their history. But
not realizing how they got to that point is what brings these invisible
histories to light. With Americans supplying the Koreans funds to support them
in the Viet Nam War, it brings up how their sentiments have changed so much.
Their ways of learning and militarization have been affected in so many
different ways, and in that sense, it has become a proxy war, and the Koreans
were just another one of the proxies fighting for a war for the wrong reasons. These
truths being discussed more and more brings to light how difficult it becomes. Putting
into context of my own life, it just puts into my mind of where my
positionality is and how I act as an individual from now on.
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