While nominally set in Korea, MASH had far more to do with the Vietnam War than the earlier conflict.
Why has the Korean War become so forgotten?
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While nominally set in Korea, MASH had far more to do with the Vietnam War than the earlier conflict.
This isn't really helpful.
"Your thoughts are wrong! And here is a sarcastic smiley face!" isn't really conducive to great conversation.
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There is the Bogart movie Battle Circus, about a MASH unit in Korea but it’s even older than M*A*S*H, actually being made shortly before the cease fire.
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Up to 1970-s the North had better living standard, than South.A modernized people's democracy in the North pre 1980 ? ? Really !
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Ah yes, the 'Democracy' of the North with Fearless Leader ordering kidnapping of Southerners for the amusement and benefit for the DPRK
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When my Dad did his 2nd Tour of Korea in 1969(his emphysema kept him from going to Vietnam) he couldn't believe the difference from 1952. Seoul was no longer a bombed flat dirt poor backwater, but a modern city
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They were getting a lot of free aid (civilian and otherwise) from Warsaw Pact Nations, far more than what the South got from the USA
I mean, i think OP already answered why it was sort of forgotten. There was no clearly defined winner or loser, it just sort of petered out into the stalemate we all know and love (to hate). That being said, it hasn’t been completely forgotten, at least in tabletop gaming. Chaosiu, released a sourcebook for their Call of Cthulhu game called Atomic Age Cthulhu which is set in the 1950s. One of the scenarios is about an tank crew going up against Cthulhu’s minions in Korea.
Both North and South Korea suffered terribly during the Korean War . On balance though I think that the South got hammered the worst . To all intents and purposes it was pretty much destroyed.
Not that there was much there to begin with. Fifty years of Japanese rule did very little to improve the infrastructure of Korea . It's absolutely amazing to see how South Korea has turned things around since then.
Its more than a little heartbreaking to think that many Koreans thought that the worst was over at the end of 1945 . When the Japanese occupation of their country finally ended .
If only they had known about the horrors that would be coming their way in only five years time . Regards.
I got the joke, and I thought it was pretty funny. However, since the line, taken literally, is basically advising someone to kill themselves, it really goes down badly if the other person doesn't get the reference.
If you wanna needle someone for not knowing about MASH, maybe another line from the same song would be better:
A: How come there's no pop-culture about the Korean War?
B: Well, you can take or leave it if you please.
(Granted, doesn't have the shock value of the other line.)
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Even in 1970, they were by many measures, dirt poor, with a GDP per Capita of like $300.
But they were on the way up, by 1977, that ratio had tripled.
At the same time, the DPRK was losing ground. They picked China over the USSR as patron, and China at that time, didn't have a lot of money to supply, and were unable to match the aid that the USSR and WP had bankrolled them to that point.
Do you think I'm some kind of ANIM-Please tell me that you aren't planning to invite little Sonny the Sea Lion over for dinner . I know how hungry Bears can get .
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I've often wondered how things might have gone for the DPRK if they had picked the USSR over China . Obviously in the short term there would have been more investment. But the wheels would still have started come off the waggon after 1984 . Glasnost and perestroika might have become more of a thing in a DPRK that was more closely aligned with the USSR .
Not to mention the fact that China would have been throughly affronted by the DPRK turning it's back on China . Especially after all the blood and treasure it spent on the DPRK during the Korean War.
This would obviously have become more and more of an issue as time went by . Particularly after 1991. You can certainly understand why the DPRK went with China . I'm really not sure that they realistically had any other choice.
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