Comments on Korea Pop Wars: Band of Brothers, The Pacific ... The Korean War?

One wonders, though, how Korean audiences would re...

2010-03-14T22:19:05.416+09:00

One wonders, though, how Korean audiences would respond. It certainly wouldn't be anything like Korean depictions of that conflict... as there would be non-Koreans actually fighting against North Korean and Chinese forces. (To watch some South Korean depictions, especially the most prominent recent ones, you'd think the only people who fought in the war were Koreans.)

Which leaves me very curious how (South) Korean audiences would respond.

The Korean War presents itself in very neat blocks...

2010-03-14T20:06:00.687+09:00

The Korean War presents itself in very neat blocks: the liberation of Korea and the forces that led to division, the beginnings of the war itself and the North Koreans' push nearly all the way to Pusan, the US-led UN forces coming to the rescue, the Inchon Landing, the push through Seoul and up into North Korean territory, the eventual push back, and the dragged out stalemate that lasted two years beyond that. That's six, seven, or possibly eight blocks that all could be told in a one- or two-hour format.