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(23) John Hodge: first US forces commander in Korea

(23) John Hodge: first US forces commander in Korea

On Sept. 8, 1945, a fine autumn day, a lean-faced, fair-haired figure in starched fatigues stepped onto Korean soil at the port of Incheon. He was Lieutenant General John Hodge, United States Army, the man tasked with carrying out “Baker 40” ― the field order for the occupation of the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.

2012-01-18 18:33

(22) Korea’s in-between leaders who lacked power

(22) Korea’s in-between leaders who lacked power

The two military coups which characterized South Korea’s pre-democracy period involved the removal of leaders who enjoyed legitimacy but lacked power. As the promise of democracy was snuffed out on their watch, their stories are all but forgotten. They nevertheless merit inclusion in this series, even if it is only to highlight what might have been.

2012-01-11 18:16

(21) Park Heon-young: symbol of Korean communism

(21) Park Heon-young: symbol of Korean communism

The first-generation Korean communists had a strange fate. In the 1940s, they were influential but in the 1950s most of them met violent deaths and their names were erased from official history in both North and South Korea. In the South, it became possible to talk of them recently, while in the North, where most of them perished at the hands of their own comrades, their name...

2012-01-04 19:30

(20) Seo Jae-pil: pioneering reformer, independence fighter

(20) Seo Jae-pil: pioneering reformer, independence fighter

The late 19th century was probably the most important and pivotal period in Korean history.

2011-12-28 19:51

(19) Last royals: King Kojong, Queen Myeongseong, Sunjong

(19) Last royals: King Kojong, Queen Myeongseong, Sunjong

In early 1863, Korea acquired a new king. He was merely nine years old, but this hardly surprised his subjects: the first decades of the 19th century was the time of dynastic instability, when the actual power rested in hands of a few powerful clans. The dynastic succession was often determined by the power struggle between these dignitaries, who were usually related to the r...

2011-12-21 19:53

(18) Moon Sun-myung: son of the broken-hearted God

(18) Moon Sun-myung: son of the broken-hearted God

On a freezing night in December 1950 during the last refugee exodus from North Korea, a heretic Christian preacher named Moon Sun-myung stepped onto an iceflow and pushed out into the Imjin River.

2011-12-14 19:13

(17) Martial art taekwondo pioneers and promoters

(17) Martial art taekwondo pioneers and promoters

Students at the University of Texas sport hall looked on as a wiry, barefoot Asian man, dressed in what looked like white pajamas, secured with a strip of black cloth, strode the length of the hall, punching the air and kicking above his head. Then he raised his knee, yelled, and kicked out at one of the gymnasium’s 40-foot-high wooden beams.

2011-11-30 20:38

(16) Chun Doo-hwan: last dictator

(16) Chun Doo-hwan: last dictator

Although a natural and skilled leader under whose rule in the 1980s an increasingly prosperous Korea headed toward democracy, Chun Doo-hwan will go down in history as the leader who lacked legitimacy.

2011-11-23 19:26

(15) Roh Moo-hyun: The Unlikely President

(15) Roh Moo-hyun: The Unlikely President

A few days after his election victory in December 2002, president-elect Roh Moo-hyun stepped onto the stage at a hotel in Seoul and faced an audience of several hundred foreign business people.

2011-11-16 19:49

(14) Roh Tae-woo: president who followed his script

(14) Roh Tae-woo: president who followed his script

Halfway through his five-year term as president, Roh Tae-woo invited the Seoul-based foreign press corps to Cheong Wa Dae (Blue House).

2011-11-09 22:10

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