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VOL. 5/ISSUE 37
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2017
REMEMBERING
KOREA
Dr. Kuang S. Kim is an anesthesiologist at the Wes Palm Beach VA Medical Center. In 1950 he was a medical student months from graduation leading a campus anticommunist group. In June, he’d become a secondtime refugee running from the communists. He joined the South Korean Army and worked alongside American doctors during the Korean War.
West Palm VA Physician Reflects On Early Years Patrick McCallister FOR VETERAN VOICE
pmccallister@veteranvoiceweekly.com
On June 26, 1950, Dr. Kuang S. Kim was a medical student in Seoul, Korea, two months away from graduating. At the school, Kim headed up a student anti-communist organization. “In 1945, the country was divided and my family had to move down south, because of the communists,” Kim said. The next three years, one month and a day in Korea would be recorded in innumerable books and documentaries, but somehow they’d remain the Forgotten War. This July 27 marks 64 years since the armistice that ended the shooting. No respected historian argues it ended the war. Korea today remains a glaciated remnant of the Cold War.
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Photo courtesy of the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center