The “Mixed Blood” Problem in Cold War South Korea
The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed and non-mixed Korean narratives of the cold war era and reflect a postwar Korean society that grappled with concepts of citizenship, belonging, and responsibility.