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( John P. Dimoia ) 한국과학사학회 2016 한국과학사학회지 Vol.38 No.2
This article interrogates the role of Korean military and civilian medicine during the Vietnam War (1965-1973), investigating its links to the period of reconstruction (1954-1960) following the Korean War, along with implications for the domestic population in the late 1960s and following. As early as the mid-1950s, civil society organizations were making contributions to aid other Asian nations, creating an Asian-Asian style of partnership often missing from the literature. Even as postwar South Korea refurbished its public health system, transformed its medical pedagogy at hospitals, and perfected new types of medical specialization, there was an ambi-tion to engage with its neighbors through outreach. The Vietnam War provided a context in which this set of ambitions could be realized, providing a strong compo-nent of civilian medicine and aid to complement the military medical program de-signed primarily to handle wounded troops and casualties. This civil component hap-pened in part because of the civilian presence linked with construction and engineer-ing in Vietnam, and also was driven by a desire to reach out to the Vietnamese people as a partner nation. In this second case, Korean medical teams, over a period of nearly a decade (1964-1973), performed vaccinations, handled neonatal and senior care in health screenings, and sought to craft a positive impression. The enormous energy devoted to civilian medicine has left many questions, and at the very least, it is possible to link the Southeast Asian setting with the domestic in the form of po-licing for the spread of disease, especially malaria and parasites. In this sense, South-east Asia served as an experimental context for Korean medicine, a “faraway place” to work out issues of practice before returning home.
DiMoia John P. 고려대학교 한국사연구소 2024 International Journal of Korean History Vol.29 No.2
This paper considers the origins of South Korean ODA (official development assistance), working through the lens of KOICA’s (Korea International Cooperation Agency) two main predecessor institutions in the early 1960s. In contrast to KOICA (1991-prsent), associated with a rich Korea, this earlier period was dominated by small-scale efforts at outreach with neighboring countries, especially in Southeast Asia and Africa. In this context, two arguments emerge. First, Korean aid began earlier than is generally assumed, with the first outreach to African partners coming under discussion as early as 1960. Second, when the nation began its official in-country workshops a few years later, these were heavily influenced by the experiences Koreans had themselves undergone with the US in the form of “third-county training,” in which the US paired its partners to speed up the transfer of knowledge. In brief, Korean aid at its start point took place most frequently with new post-colonial partners, whether for diplomatic recognition, or for the exchange of knowledge, and went on to shape a new network as KODCO (Korean Overseas Development Corporation, 1965-1991) became a reality in the mid-1960s.
Revisiting Korean Family Planning (FP): Population and the pre-1962 Context
John P. DiMoia 한국학중앙연구원 한국학중앙연구원 2022 Korea Journal Vol.62 No.3
South Korean family planning is often characterized in terms of a progressive narrative in which the Park Chung-hee state transformed rural life (1964– early 1980s) through the successful application of social science with the help of a series of international collaborators. Similar stories are sometimes told for Taiwan and other parts of East and Southeast Asia. This paper argues, however, that Korean concerns about population issues have a much longer history, with origins dating to the late 1930s. The subsequent uses of these concerns indicate the diverse ways in which Japanese imperial training and education were successfully adapted by Korean actors to fit emerging American modernization efforts in the 1960s.