해방 직후 남한 신문과 베트남 전쟁 재현·표상

Abstract

For post-colonial South Korean elites, Vietnam remained as one of major focal points. With this in mind, this articles examines post-liberation South Korean newspapers to re-construct the contemporary representations of Vietnamese War against France. More than anything else, South Korean newspapers represented the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and its leaders and population as those fighting for the complete sovereignty of the Vietnamese nation. This representation was followed by the representations of the Vietnamese War as the popular struggle of all Vietnamese population, and then as their national guerrilla warfare against France. However, the presentation work of the contemporary newspapers was not confined within the nationa lization of the War. The work continued to Asianize the Vietnamese national war, firstly, by identifying Vietnam as a member of Asian community of common interest. The Asianization work was conducted also through the reports of the efforts made by Vietnamese and other Asians for constructing the solidarity of all the Asian peoples for the Vietnamese war. In this way, the war came to be represented as the Asian war against post-the World War II French colonialism and Western one. However, the image of the Vietnamese war as a national- cum-Asian war by no means remained stable. Contemporarily, the image was being de-constructed by the reports of internal political strifes among Vietnamese elites. The DRV and its leadership came to be identified just as the political faction of communist agendas, and even as the running dog of the Soviet expansionism. The identification resulted in the de-construction of the Vietnamese war represented as a national-cum-Asian war. This process expressed the contemporary evolution of the Cold War in South Korea.