<p>This
project examines the events from 1866 to 1871 in Korea between the United
States and Joseon, with a specific focus on the 1866 <i>General Sherman</i>
Incident and the United States Expedition to Korea in 1871. The project also
examines the present memory of those events in the United States and North and
South Korea. This project shows that
contemporary American reactions to the events in Korea from 1866 to 1871 were
numerous and ambivalent in what the American role should be in Korea. In the present, American memory of 1866 to
1871 has largely been monopolized by the American military, with the greater
American collective memory largely forgetting this period. </p>
<p>In
the Koreas, collective memory of the five-year crisis (1866 to 1871) is divided
along ideological lines. In North Korea, the victories that Korea achieved
against the United States are used as stories to reinforce the North Korean
line on the United States, as well as reinforcing the legitimacy of the Kim
family. In South Korea, the narrative
focuses on the corruption of Joseon and the Daewongun and the triumph of a
“modernizing” Korean state against anti-western hardliners, and is more diverse
in how the narrative is told, ranging from newspapers to K-Dramas, leading to a
more complicated collective memory in the South. </p>
<p>This
Thesis shows that understanding the impact that the first state-to-state
encounters had on the American-Korean relationship not only at the time but
also in the present, is key to analyzing the complicated history of the
Korean-American relationship writ large.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12252854 |
| Date | 07 May 2020 |
| Creators | James P Podgorski (8803058) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/Korean_and_American_Memory_of_the_Five_Years_Crisis_1866-1871/12252854 |
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