Communism Alert (1971) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Communism Alert (1971) / Scarlet Sappho
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Seen at Sudoguksan (Water Works Hill) Museum of Housing and Living, just east of downtown Incheon. Water Works Hill hosted a shantytown, made up of displaced rural peasants and Northern refugees, which lasted through the industrialization years until being gentrified in 1996; there is a museum dedicated to life in the shantytown, a valuable resource to remember a bygone era.South Korea in the industrial era was a Cold War anticommunist military dictatorship, and fear of the outside communist threats, combined with control of news and information, was an effective way to instill fear into the population and ensure compliance. I found these propaganda posters to be as endearing as the life stories of the shantytown itself.Specifically, this March 1971 poster discusses the global developments, in the form of the US rethinking its military strategy in South Vietnam and possible reduction of US military presence in South Korea. By comparison, the USSR and Red China are building up their forces, and the ever-present North Korean threat has only intensified. As a result, a special period has been announced for reporting any suspected communist infiltrators. A special message also goes out to the infiltrators themselves, promising amnesty and assistance in settling in South Korea if they choose to turn themselves in.In industrial-era South Korea, freedom was anything that was not communist, even if it was the draconian dictatorship President Park Chung-hee was running. At least Park was admirable if only because he had pushed ahead with a risky industrialization plan, with assistance from major capitalist powers extending Cold War-era trade favors to ensure South Korea's viability. While a similar Cold War East Asian capitalist dictator, Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan, is now more or less reviled today, criticism of Park is still taboo, especially among South Korea's right-wing elements (including the current Lee Myung-bak government) and among Korean-Americans. In fact, one of the most beloved politicians in South Korea today is Park's daughter, herself a hardline conservative.1971 was when Park Chung-hee was running for a third term, made possible by a constitutional amendment. He had a strong challenge from leftist Kim Dae-jung, whom every conservative and Korean-American "knows" to be a North Korean agent. After working up the paranoia to squeak by with a win, Park used the same justifications to suspend democracy, and promulgate a brand-new Yushin Constitution in 1972, giving himself unlimited power. Kim Dae-jung was to be quietly drowned in the open sea, until a US CIA aircraft intervened at the last minute; Kim had his civil rights restored in 1987 and finally became South Korea's first leftist President in 1998.Much of the fear/hysteria surrounding North Korea was well justified, as the North, having kept most of Korea's industrial base, had always been stronger than the agricultural South, and having received generous Communist Bloc subsidies and become self-sufficient in food production, was indeed in great shape in the 1970s. The scale would soon tip in the South's favor, however, with the success of the South's industrialization drive, and in the 1980s and later, the end of the Communist Bloc subsidies for the North, not to mention the North's inefficient farming methods having taken their toll. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-12-12 10:50:14 |
| 撮影者 | Scarlet Sappho |
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| 撮影地 | 인천, 인천, 한국 地図 |
| カメラ | PENTAX Optio S50 , PENTAX Corporation |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/1000) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.6 |