Drastic Choices & Extreme Consequences-Concerning Korea 1945-1953

Decisions have both short and long-term consequences. Sometimes we cannot see the consequences and do not know the outcomes, but we take a step and make a choice. Some after-effects are irrevocable, and some are fixable. Some decisions affect us immediately and exclusively while others have consequences that are global. When we make decisions, we sometimes doubt our decisions and ask ourselves what might have happened if another choice was made. We make choices daily, small or great, for good or bad.After World War II, South Korean president Rhee Syngman put many alleged Communists in a rehabilitation program known as the National Guidance League. Many of them were executed between 1945 and 1953 to prevent them from joining the Communist north. Rhee's decision affected many families including my own. What we choose to do has intentional and unintentional consequences. Extreme choices produce dire consequences that can subsequently influence future generations and, on a larger scale, an entire nation for decades.

Author

• Kwon, Jihae

Language

• en

Keyword

• Genocide
• South Korea
• Syngman Rhee
• McCarthyism
• Cold War
• Korean War

Date created

• 2014

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Art and the Book

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• McAleer-Keeler, Kerry

Committee Member(s)

• Smith, Casey
• Deal, Georgia

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/sf2685250