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OPINION
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VisitingParkKyung-seo,ambassadorofhumanrightforthefirsttime
“Respectingothersbringspeace”
ESTABLISHED1954
TheArgus,theoldestcampusEnglishnewspaperinKorea,pursuesthe
higheststandardofcampusjournalismandacademicexcellence.
P
?President,Publisher
ark Kyung-seo was appointed to
listen to the fresh vision of NGO carefully
ChoKyu-chul
ambassadorofhumanrightforthefirst
and NGO should understand the difficulties
?ProfessorEditor
SungKyung-jun
time. As the secretary of Asia in World
ofgovernmentattentively.Thatwasmygoal
?EnglishAdvisor
RheeSeong-ha,ShinMyoung-sup
CouncilofChurches,hehastriedtoimprove
toharmonizewitheachothers.”
?HeadEditor
SongHye-min
Asianhumanrightfor18years.Andhehas
Those multifarious activities were based
?EditorialConsultant
KimJin-young
playedaroleinbyattendingUnitedNations
on his long experience of working for the
?Editors
KamEun-jin,LeeMin-a
Human Rights Committee and publicized
World Council of Churches for eighteen
?AssociateEditors
KimJae-hyuk,KwonHye-mi
human right policy of the Korean
years.WCCisaninternationalfellowshipof
?Reporters
government. Also, he is trying to cooperate
Christian churches all over the world and
HaKyung-hwan,KimSang-min,LeeJoo-hyun,
withotherNGOswhicharededicatedtothe
helpspeoplesufferingfrompoverty.
LeeSo-jeong,LeeSo-jung,OhEun-hyuk,
defence and promotion of human right all
Hispassionandinterestabouthumanright
over the world, such as Amnesty
go back to his university life. On April 19,
270,Imun-dong,Dongdaemun-gu,Seoul,Korea(PostalCode130-791)
International, International Labour
1960, Koreans flew into a rage against
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Organization, International Commission of
Syngman Rhee’s dictatorship and election
San89,Wangsan-ri,Mohyun-myon,Yongin,Kyonggi-do,Korea(PostalCode449-791)
Jurists,FreedomHouseandsoon.
malpractice at last. He took part in
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AsthesecretaryoftheAsianpartofWorld
demonstrationsagainstthen-presidentRhee.
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Council of Churches, he feels the
AftertheApril19Revolution,hisstruggle
responsibilitytomakeawrittenrecordofthe
forKoreandemocracywasalsoconstant.He
HaKyung-hwan/TheArgus
Editorial
World Council of Churches’ ecumenical
was involved in Christian Academy anti-
initiatives for the process of peaceful
Communism issue. So he was dismissed
discussed oppressing social situations. But
“Many people think wrong about
reunificationoftheKoreanPenisula.
from his office and confined in his own
the fact that some people wrongly accused
globalization.ItisnottofollowU.SorJapan
For the last ten years, promotion of the
houseandheleftforGermanyunavoidably.
himoflegalinfrigementremainsinhisbitter
blindly. The real meaning of Grobalization
Bloodyterror,
peaceful reunification of Korea, true
He steadily threw all their energy into the
memory.
isn’t knowing only developed countries. It
democracy in Burma as well as peace and
democratic movement. He made a public
As the Asian Secretary of the World
was accompanied by considerate attitudes
reconciliation in Cambodia and Sri Lanka
disclosureoftherealconditionofKoreaand
CouncilofChurches,hevisitedNorthKorea
aboutthespiritofpoorcountries.Wehaveto
have been high on the priority list of the
gathered the pressure of international
twenty three times until now. Through
haveinterestsintherootsofAsiancountries.
WorldCouncilofChurches.
society. He took this opportunity to meet
activitiesforhumanrights,heisinterestedin
Heinsistedontheneedforeffortsseeking
Bloodyretaliation?
In case of domestic problems, he made
Kim Dae-jung, present president when he
the problems of separated families, and in
real value in our heart. “Economy can’t
every effort to set up the Nation Human
cametotheUnitedStatesasanexile.Andhe
supporting provisions. Recently, he asserted
resolveallproblems.Iwantouryouthtotry
Right Committee and to guard human right
gained confidence in democracy through
thenecessityaboutlinkingtotheproblemof
to discover inner real worth through mental
ofalienworkers.Oneofthemostimportant
suchexperience.
human right and concluding a peace treaty.
anguishtowardselfandtheworld.Let’slook
things is defusing tension on the Korean
“Dictatorship looks convenient in
Dr. Park emphasized that 6.15 Joint
at the future.” After retirement from his
A
fter bloody terror on Tuesday, Sept. 11, George W. Bush declared a military
Peninsula and encouraging to support the
appearance. But advantages of democracy
Declaration should be sublimated to the
works,hehasplantopublishsomebooksfor
actiononthesamelevelasterroristattackawakeningfromthenightmareofthat
shortage of provision in North Korea. As
willturnoutinthelongrun.”
status of the Korean’s most important
theKoreanyouth.
day. In an ABC-Washington Post poll, 94 percent of U.S. citizens said that they
ambassadorofhumanright,hehasonemore
He has impressive experience, prayer
document.
supported military retaliation, and 86 percent supported retaliation, even if it meant
thingtodo.
meeting held by the Korean Council of
Now he has taught a lesson related to
goingtowar.TheU.S.SecretaryofDefenseDonaldH.Rumsfeldalsosaidthemilitary
“It is very important to build up the
ChurcheseachThursday.Alargenumberof
Asian culture and the role of NGO at
ByHaKyung-hwan
was prepared to take action against any group or nation responsible for the terrorist
cooperation between NGOs and
laborers and farmers gathered in the church
universities.Itissaidthatstudents’response
ReporterofNewsSection
attacks. Given these circumstances, Bush is likely to take a very strong military
governments. Government officials have to
and participated in confession of faith and
wasgood.
retaliation.Healsodemandedmilitaryandmedicalsupportfrommanycountries.The
worldispayingattentiontothereactionoftheUnitedStates.
Thistoughreactioncouldbeunderstoodinthatthevictimsoftheterrorwereworking
FromtheFacultyLounge
people:janitors,secretaries,firemenandetc.Itisalsolikelytoprovetobeacrushing
blow to Palestinians and other poor and oppressed people as well. However, this
terroristattacksmaynotreachthelevelofmanyothersAmericahasdone,forexample,
EarlyKoreanVillagesintheRussianFarEast
Clinton’sbombingtheSudanwithnocrediblepretext,destroyinghalfofpharmaceutical
suppliesandkillingunknownnumbersofpeople.
ItiswithoutquestionthattheU.S.imperialismhasbroughtdeathanddestructionto
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people around the world in the level of genocide. We witnessed American missiles
t was the summer of 1993 when I first
militaryforces.
Koreanvillages-Putilovka,Korsakovka,and
The village was formed by 13 Korean
smashing Palestinian homes and the U.S. helicopters firing missiles to a Lebanese
visited Vladivostok in the Russian Far
Thepoliticalandeconomiccontributionof
Chukhanovka-were visited by Korean
householdswhoriskedtheirlivesanddared
ambulancein1996andAmericanshellssmashingavillagecalledQanaandaAmerica-
East. At the time, I was surprised to realize
these Koreans, however, would not prevent
scholars. In particular, Putilovka was the
to cross the Tumen River in 1863 from
supported Lebanese militia hacking and raping and murdering their way through
thatCaucasians(Russians)livedinthatcity
their forced relocation to Central Asia and
mostwell-knownplacetoKoreans,forCho
Kyonghung-a border town in North
Palestinianrefugecamps.
only two hours away from Seoul by plane.
themassexecutionsof2,500Koreanleaders
Myong-hi, a famous socialist poet who
Hamgyong Province. Tizinkhe village was
InKorea,massacreofinnocentpeoplewascarriedout.ItisassumedthatU.S.Army
HowcouldacitythatistypicallyEuropean
by Stalin in the mid-1930s. Those Koreans
wrote the long poems, “Oppressed Korea”
located between the Baranovka and
killed about 3 million people in over 500 places. Among those places, Nogunri is
belocatedsoclosetotheKoreanpeninsula?
wereaccusedofhelpingJapaneseespionage
and “Naktong River” Cho had emigrated
Vinogradnaya rivers in the southern
somewhatrepresentative.Americahavenotapologizedtotheinnocentvictimsofthese
EvenI,ahistorianwithacademicinterestin
activities against Soviet Russia. Stalin’s
from Korea in late 1920s to Russia and
Maritime Province. We shouted hurrahs
massacres in Korea in public at all and they have not been compensated for their
the history of Korean Russians, was
unexpected and sudden relocation of
taught at a floriculture school in Putilovka.
whenwediscoveredtwohousingsitesalong
damage. These are what the U.S. has committed against weak countries in the world
unfamiliar with such a city. I had to visit
Koreansin1937broughtaboutthecomplete
Without finding the locations of early
with two millstones and pieces of broken
roughly,whiledefiningtheirowncountryaspolicestate.
VladivostokformyfieldstudiesonKoreans
destruction of all political, economic, and
Koreanvillages,howcanwehopetorestore
grainjarswiththehelpofaRussianfarmer
Well,canwesaythiscountrymakesanefforttobethetruepolicestateresponsible
whohavemigratedtoRussia.
cultural achievements which the Koreans
the history of Koreans in Russia? Those
livingatTizinkhe.
forkeepingworldpeace?Thereisnodoubtthatterroristattacksarecloselyrelatedto
Korean Russians, called ‘Koryo Sarm’ or
had strenuously accumulated for several
Korean villages had been anti-Japanese
Our exclamation, however, was soon
thisanswer.
‘Koryoin,’ had begun to immigrate to the
decades.Villages,paddyfields,schoolsand
independence movement strongholds before
replaced by silent and mixed feeling when
The pressure for Missile Defence (MD) is likely to be increased. Defence is a thin
Russian Far East since the 1860s and had
even tombs of their ancestors were left
theywereabandonedin1937.
we reminded ourselves of the fact that
coverforthemilitarizationofwholeworld.Thisterrorseemstobeachanceforthose
lived there for several decades until Stalin
behind. Some of the villages of these
Our search began with the gathering
Koreansherehavelosteverythingafteronly
whohopetodevelopMDtodominatetheirdomains.Whattheywilltriggercouldbe
forced 200,000 Koreans to Uzbekistan and
Koreans were resumed by Russians, while
information that would lead us to the
70 years. I experienced a similar feeling
more attacks like this one or worse. Some doubt that they want the war to overcome
KazakhstaninCentralAsiain1937.Itisan
otherswereleftuninhabited.
location of Korean villages in the Russian
when our team confirmed the location of
domesticeconomicdifficulty.
indisputable fact that Korean immigrants
Professor Kho Songmoo, a Korean
Far East. In addition to the information
Taudemi, which used be the largest Korean
Ofcoursetheterrorsshouldbestoppedandterroristspunishedstrongly.Itkillsalotof
greatly contributed to the colonization and
linguist who visited Central Asia in the
gathered from the historical documents
village in the Partisansk region (previously
innocentpeopleandbringsbigsorrowtofamiliesandfriendsofvictims.Ontheother
economic development of the Russian Far
1980sduringtheSovietperiod,wasthefirst
written in Korean, Japanese, Russian, and
Suchan region), but now we found to be
hand,thisterrorcouldbealsohassomethingwiththeU.S.diplomaticpolicy.
East,whichRussiahadobtainedfromChina
to write articles about Koreans in Central
classicChinese,wereliedonseveraloldand
abandoned. Taudemi village was the
Insomesense,thisterrorcouldbeagifttothosewhowanttomaintainMDsystem
in 1860. Korean peasants developed wild
Asia.AfterthecollapseoftheSovietUnion,
new maps, which our survey team had
stronghold of Korean partisan movement
andgetridoftheirtroubles.Itisnotsurprisingthatimmediatelyafterbreakingdownof
fields into cultivated lands and produced
a few more Korean anthropologists and
gathered from Russia and Korea. In
during the Siberian Intervention period
WorldTradeBuildings,theyspottedOsamabinLadenastheoffenderanddeclareda
grains, vegetables, and meat that the
sociologistsalsovisitedCentralAsia.Thena
particular, we depended heavily on two
(1918-1922). Kim Kyong-ch’on, a Korean
war against terrorists and terrorism in the world as if they have always pursed world
Russianshadurgentlyneeded.
couple of Korean historians began to travel
Russian maps made in 1908 on which the
partisan leader, whom one Korean scholar
peace.But,itistimefortheU.S.tolookbackU.S.-centereddiplomaticpoliciesfortheir
AftertheJapaneseannexationofKoreain
around the historical places in the Russian
locations of about 52 Korean villages were
claimedasa‘realKimIlSung.’hadlivedin
worlddominancestrategyoftheBushadministration.
1910, an increased number of Koreans fled
Far East, mostly the historical sites of anti-
marked with the number of Korean
Taudemi village until he was arrested in
This terror should be an opportunity to reconsider U.S.-centered diplomatic policy
theirhomelandfortheRussianFarEast.The
Japaneseactivities.
householdsandpopulation.
1937.
ratherthanagifttobreakawaragainsttheirtroublesandgraspworldwidepower.
Maritime Province in particular was a main
While organizing a seven-member team
Ourteamwasabletoconfirmthelocations
stage for the anti-Japanese activities of
by the request of the Patriots & Veterans
of 12 Korean villages. Eight of the villages
Korean nationalists. Thousands of young
AffairsAdministrationlastApril,Imadeita
are now occupied by Russians while we
BanByung-yool
Korean patriots joined the Russian
primary goal of our project to find the
foundfourtobecompletelyabandoned.We
revolutionary forces fighting against the
locations of early Korean villages in the
weregreatlypleasedwhenwediscoveredthe
ThewriterisaprofessorofGraduateSchool
White Guards supported by Japanese
Russian Far East. Until now, only three
firstandlargestKoreanvillageinTizinkhe.
ofInternationalAreaStudies
LettertoTheArgus
BEGINNINGOF
Myfragmentarythoughtsonhappiness
DearReaders
ANOTHER
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n the course of my life, when was that?
communicate much more easily with other
daretoholdthattruehappinessrelatesmore
TRAGEDY!
When was I really happy? And what
people.Throughsuchgoodrelationship,you
to the mind and heart than to physical
TheArgusgreetsnewCopyReaders,
made me so happy? Right! All of these
take a spirit of happiness. It’s the secret to
pleasure which is unstable. Mental
Rhee Seong-ha and Shin Myoung-sup
questionsarerelatedto“happiness”whichis
my own happiness, and it is within my
satisfaction!Ourstateofmindisthekeyto
in English Division and new Editorial
a relative concept. Through the process of
hands.SoImustnotmissmyhappiness.
enterdoorofhappiness,It’scrucial.Inshort,
Consultant, Kim Jin-young. We also
seeking the answer, I realized the thoughts
Sometimes,Ithrowthetoughquestionto
spiritualsatisfactiongivesapeacefulstateof
givessincerelythankstoFredBlairand
and emotions that are beneficial and which
me. I always try to seek the answer. But I
mind, which we believe one certain way to
Linda Fitzgibbon, the former Copy
areharmfulinachievingahappylife.
havenoideaaboutthesequestions.However
reachrealhappiness.
ReadersfortheirworkforTheArgus.
Hatred, jealousy, and anger as I consider
I reached some conclusion through these
I dare to suggest that the principle of
The Argus is also pleased to
negativestatesofmindbecausetheydestroy
questions,Ithinkthatpurposeofourlifeisto
happiness; Enjoy in the immediate present,
announce the new three cub-reporters
our mental happiness. Once you harbor
seek happiness. We are all seeking a better
Lookonthebrightersideoflifeandlivefor
who were selected through
feelings of hatred or ill feeling toward
life.
today!! So in short, happiness is not an
examinations.Theyare:ChoiHee-jung
someone, once I am filled by hatred or
SoIthink,thecommonmotionofourlife
illusivedream.ItisstateofmindandItisthe
(E-01) and Kim Yu-kyoung (G-01)
negativeemotions,thenotherpeopleseeyou
is toward happiness. To an average person,
result of our conscientious effort to look at
fromImuncampus,KimHong-ran(S-
also as hostile. It is the ignition of conflict
being happy is something to hope for,
the brighter side of our life and see the
01)fromWangsancampus.
andtheignitionofdestroyinghappiness.
something to dream about, or something to
sunshine.
TheArgusexpressescongratulations
Soasaresultyourpeacefulmentalstates
achieve sometime in the future. Then, what
to them, hoping that they will become
will be broken. I regard compassionate,
is the standard of happiness? Earning a big
truejournalists.
warm,kindheartedpeopleashealthy.Soif
money?Buyingabighouse?Gettingabetter
you maintain a feeling of compassion, love
job? Or joining new social club that is
kindness, then something automatically
attracting? The standard of happiness is a
KimNam-guk(E-01)
LeeEun-kyu/CartoonistofTheArgus
opens our inner mind, so you can
relativeconcept.ButIcantellyouloudly.I

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