A South Korean film about the last battle of the Korean War. It’s their entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar
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I saw the trailer for this the other day and was very impressed…there aren’t too many Korean War movies…and this one looks top notch.
A couple years ago I got the full DVD set of M*A*S*H for Christmas and while watching them in kind of interested me in the Korean War again. It’s often called America’s Forgotten War and really that’s what it was. Ask the average Joe what they can tell you about it, and normally they can’t name anything more than M*A*S*H. It was a major turning point in military warfare even more so than WW2 I believe. The introduction of jet aircraft, the USA’s first encounters with the guerrilla style warfare they would later face in Viet Nam, Red China’s first real show of strength as a unified government and nation, and the changing of the guard from WW2 generals to new ones with new ideas.
A lot of people don’t realize we lost nearly as many people in the Korean War as we did in Viet Nam and without the Korean War, I believe Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, obviously South Korea, and other Asian nations might not exist as we know them today. To borrow the words of Joe “I’m a moron” Biden, it was a “big f***ing deal.”
Jet aircraft first flew in combat during WWII.
Pork Chop Hill starring Gregory Peck is a very good Korean War movie if you or anyone else cares to watch. The Hunters starring Robert Mitchum is OK story wise but has some of the best air to air scenes of F-86 Sabre Jets you’ll ever see.
Honestly guerrilla warfare of the kind we faced in Vietnam has been around forever but in this nation’s history most notably when we faced the Moros in the Phillipines during the Spanish American War.
The Koreans have a heathy film industry, but their efforts to highlight the struggles in the Korean War usually fall off the map when it comes to accuracy.
The ROK soldiers I have heard about and seen are some of the toughest fighters anywhere. Ask any Vietnamese you can find who faced Koreans in combat how they feel about them.
Huge second to Pork Chop Hill — great movie.
Dr. Schplatt… if you’re interested in guerilla wars and American experience in them I recommend this book:
It goes from the Barbary Pirates, Indian Wars, our first Korean incursion in 1870 to the 1990s (it came out in 2002 before Iraq). It was a great read… part story and some talk of military doctrine.
Which book? Your comment looks like this to me
Dr. Schplatt… if you’re interested in guerilla wars and American experience in them I recommend this book:
It goes from the Barbary Pirates, Indian Wars, our first Korean incursion in 1870 to the 1990s (it came out in 2002 before Iraq). It was a great read… part story and some talk of military doctrine.
Is there supposed to be an image or something? I haven’t seen any of the books or images in any of the Open Threads for the past few days too.
I guess the Amazon link doesn’t work for you….
Outlaw gave the title below
I’m quite aware that jet aircraft were first used during WW2. However they were not used in any large number until the Korean War and it was the United States military’s first real chance to try some of the strategic theory in actual combat situations.
That’s not what you wrote initially…so because I am not aware of how much you know or don’t know about air combat, I wrote what I wrote.
The book Floyd recommended is Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot.
Imperial Grunts in another good book about the subject althought not as wide ranging as the one Floyd recommended.
I gotta read that. It’s in my stack.
I watch a lot of Korean films and they’re really good for the most part. Netflix has some good ones to stream. What I’ve noticed about a lot of them though is that South Korea’s left wing version of Hollywood is usually apologetic towards North Korea. When there are NK villains in the movies, they give them their sympathetic moment where they get to say how it’s SK’s fault for the poverty and hardship in NK. I recommend the Korean remake of John Woo’s, A Better Tomorrow, that’s on Netflix streaming.