Comments on: Cholera: Disease, Nation, and Identity?

By: Nena

Nena — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:43:37 +0000

My opinion on cholera disease is sad and depressing.It is sad that they have to drink unsanitary water because it’s all they have to drink, and because some of them are unware that the river,s of creeks they are drinking out of is the main reason they have these syptoms from the disease cholera.

By: Frog in a Well - The Japan History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The Japan History Group Blog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:16:30 +0000

[...] P. DiMoia raises some fascinating issues in the history of science, and nationalism, looking at a cholera outbreak in South Korea in the early days of the US [...]

By: Jeff Harris

Jeff Harris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:04:05 +0000

I was taking a road trip in the early 1980s and was traveling via bus. Somewhere near Mokpo the bus was stopped and everybody vaccinated (with a single needle!) – apparently we were going through a cholera zone. Thankfully I was able to tell them that I had already been vaccinated.

By: John DiMoia

John DiMoia — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:16:57 +0000

Hi,

Wow-didn’t realize that cholera could still draw a response–but glad to hear that there’s lots more out there.

Yes, I have also wondered about tying it in with the political turmoil (food, disease, hygiene, attacks on police boxes)
of the time, particularly in terms of perceptions of increased policing / scrutiny associated with the quarantine regime.

In any case, yes, I’d love to know more, and will be in touch offline. Just a last point, you also mention scholarship on
Japanese side. Everything I’ve seen published thus far (with the exception of Park Yunjae for the colonial period and
Shin Dong-Won who goes back to the 18th c for cholera) for this time period and disease is on the GHQ / Japan side, and
almost nothing appears for the Korean side.

I’m wondering if it’s simply a case of Koreanists catching up on the USAMGIK side, or if it’s too
“messy” for any of a number of reasons–

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:24:26 +0000

Incidently I have snapped some pictures of various cholera related articles from newspapers from the ’40s in case you want some (or Youngsoo’s contact info)