South Korean anti-americanism: A comparative perspective

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 787-803

  Shin, Gi Wook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 5244230324     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645439     Document Type: Article

References (31)

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2. See Jinwung Kim, "Recent Anti-Americanism in South Korea: The Causes, "Asian Survey, 29:8 (1989),
3. and Kim, Han'guin ǔi panmi kamjǒng [Anti-American sentiments of Koreans] (Seoul: Iljogak, 1992);
4. Tim Shorrock, "The Struggle for Democracy in South Korea in the 1980s and the Rise of Anti-Americanism," Third World Quarterly, 8:4 (1986), pp. 1195-1218, pp. 749-763;
5. Kim Kyong-Dong, "Korean Perceptions of America," in Korea Briefing 1993, Donald N. Clark, ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 163-84;
6. and Jae-Kyoung Lee, Anti-Americanism in South Korea: The Media and the Politics of Signification, PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1993.
7. Alvin Z. Rubinstein and Donald Smith, "Anti-Americanism: Anatomy of a Phenomenon," in Anti-Americanism in the Third World, Rubinstein and Smith, eds. (New York: Praeger, 1985), pp. 1-30.
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9. Stephen Haseler, Anti-Americanism: Steps on a Dangerous Path, Occasional Paper no. 18, Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, London, 1986, p. 16; Kenneth Minogue, "Anti-Americanism: A View from London," The National Interest (Spring 1986), pp. 43-49.
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11. Paul Hollander, Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 386.
12. J.W. Schulte Nordholt, "Anti-Americanism in European Culture: Its Early Manifestations," in Anti-Americanism in Europe, Rob Kroes and Maarten van Rossem, eds. (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1986), pp. 9-10.
13. Hollander, Anti-Americanism, pp. 384-87.
14. Walter Lafeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (New York Norton, 1983).
15. Irving Horowitz, "Latin America, Anti-Americanism, and Intellectual Hubris," in Anti-Americanism in the Third World, pp. 49-65.
16. Hollander, Anti-Americanism, p. 364.
17. Hollander, Anti-Americanism, p. 415.
18. See Kim Jǒng Hǒyn, "60 nyǒndae kǔndaehwa nosǒn: miguk ǔi 'munhwa chegukjuǔi' wa han'guk chisigin" [Modernization policy of the 1960s: American 'cultural imperialism' and Korean intellectuals], Yǒksa pip'yǒng 13 (Summer 1993), pp. 178-90.
19. See Hahm Pyong Choon, "The Korean Perception of the United States," in his Korean Jurisprudence, Politics and Culture (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1986), pp. 488-511.
20. Shorrock, "Struggle for Democracy," pp. 1198-1199.
21. See Donald Clark, ed., The Kwangju Uprising: Shadows over the Regime in South Korea (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988).
22. William Gleysteen, U.S. ambassador to South Korea at the time, admits that the 20th infantry division under the U.S. commander moved to Kwangju from Seoul with American consent. See William H. Gleysteen, Jr., "Korea: A Special Target of American Concern," in The Diplomacy of Human Rights, David Newsom, ed. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1986), pp. 85-99.
23. Gleysteen explains that the invitation to Chun was part of a deal to release opposition leader Kim Daejung, sentenced to death by a South Korean military court.
24. See Gi-Wook Shin, "Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 3:2 (1995), pp. 508-34.
25. Shorrock, "Struggle for Democracy," p. 1,205.
26. North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, Korea '88: The Bigger Picture (Washington DC: NACHRK, 1988), p. 115.
27. The lack of "cultural" questions may in itself indicate that these were not crucial to the rise of Korean anti-Americanism.
28. For a study of anti-Japan feeling in South Korea, see Sung-Hwa Cheong, The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiments in Korea (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).
29. See Hollander, Anti-Americanism, Chapter 9.
30. See Jinwung Kim, "From Patron-Client to Partners: The Changing South Korean-American Relationship," Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 2:3 (Fall 1993), pp. 303-25.
31. Hyun Hong-Choo, "Koreans' Perception of America," Korean Focus, 13 (January-February 1995), pp. 29-39.