To Busan and Beyond: Mobilities of Korean War Trauma

• Main Author: Ritumban, Raymon D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Korean War; Busan; War refugees; Contagious trauma; Relational trauma; New mobilities paradigm; Lee Hochul; Hahn Moo Sook; Arts and Humanities; East Asian Languages and Societies; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/218; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/english-faculty-pubs/article/1219/viewcontent/KCI_FI003061494__2_.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Korean War (1950-1953) leveled the peninsula, losing and displacing millions of its people. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans from North and South found themselves in refugee camps in Busan. This traumatizing event is carefully delineated in Yi Hochol’s “Far from Home” and Han Musook’s “The Fragm...