Talk:Republic of Korea

Starting sources to work with:

• https://newrepublic.com/article/155707/united-states-military-prostitution-south-korea-monkey-house

I don't feel like working on this rn; but I'll do it later. - Comrade Amicchan ^(talk) 04:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I agree and have also been planning to add this. I added a section on the US imperialism page that draws from this source, feel free to use any of what I included there if you want to: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/United_States_imperialism#Anti-base_and_U.S._military_withdrawal_movements

For this ROK article, I was considering adding it under "Politics" in a section about comfort women and their ongoing activism (as the article mentions that unlike comfort women who were victims of the Japanese and do receive some degree of recognition for that, the victims of this US prostitution program don't receive the same recognition). I also thought including certain time periods mentioned in this article through the history sections (e.g., mentioning some of the court cases under the relevant ROK republic eras in which they occurred), and also including other US military crimes against ROK citizens in more modern times (which I mentioned in the USA imperialism article).

I'm happy to work together on this or for one or the other of us (or anyone else) to add this information in any way they see fit, these were just the ideas I was thinking for how to organize it.

Wanted to post a brief self-criticism regarding my alteration of the line about ROK being "described as" a puppet state. It was primarily motivated by trying to write in an encyclopedic tone and create room to list a few common characterizations of ROK, rather than with an intention to invalidate the description of ROK as a puppet state. However, my alteration changed the implication and meaning of the original line, which I now see thanks to the comment given with the reversion back to the prior wording. So, I just wanted to clarify the reason I had changed it, acknowledge my change was bad/unnecessary and created an unclear meaning, and also state my agreement with the reversion.