상이군인 및 유가족들의 한국전쟁 경험

Experiences of Korean War among Disabled Veterans and War-bereaved Families : A Case Study in Yeongam County

This is a case study of Korean War experiences among disabled veterans and war-bereaved families in Yeongam County. Citizens become soldiers in order to defend their countries and to defeat enemies. Generally speaking, soldiers fight for specific political and military objectives, with confident that their cause is just. But Korean War lacked a political cause that citizens and soldiers believed in, according to the oral history of disabled veterans. Their private knowledge of the war represents a series of highly personalized enlightenment as they cross symbolic lines and boundaries throughout their lives. Their story is not a kind of the various "official" views of warfare. As soldiers, they must fight and kill their 'enemy' who also a human being and his kind. However, to survive they numb their emotions and eventually they lose respect for the enemy's humanity. They return home changed and estranged from normal time society with disabled body. It makes a social suffering for his families and society, especially for himself and his wife. During and after the war, women should earn her family's livelihood instead of her disabled husband. But the war did little to alter women's position within the sexual division of labour at home or outside. The war brought another social suffering to women's life.