Vice Doc on North Korea
What is China?
A major reason South Korea was able to become such an economic powerhouse since the 1960s/70s was due to extreme competition between corporations. Name one major South Korean corporation that still exists today.
What is LG?
What is Samsung?
What is Hyundai?
What is Kia?
This country occupied the Korean Peninsula 1910 until the end of WW2 in 1945.
What is Japan?
On which side of the Korean Peninsula did the Jeju Uprising take place from 1948 to 1948?
What is South Korea?
What is Southern Korea?
What is the Republic of Korea?
The Jewish ghetto in the film "Schindler's List" was located in this country.
What is Poland?
Which side of the DMZ was more relaxed with what tourists could do? Hint: on one side, the host couldn't point at anyone and could only be at certain stops for minutes at a time. On the other side, he could drink beer and give people the finger on the other side.
What is North Korea?
Due to manpower shortages while rebuilding South Korea, Lieutenant General John Hodge let people from this nationality stay in charge of police and administration. South Koreans were angered at this decision.
Who are the Japanese?
Who are Japanese?
Which 2 countries supported the North Koreans during the trusteeship period as well as during the Korean War?
What are China and the Soviet Union?
What are China and the USSR?
What is Taiwan?
What is Italy?
The host and camera crew did this for fun with their security guards and interpreter. Hint: They loved doing this because they got to drink beer and smoke cigerettes.
What is karaoke?
He was an American war hero in both World War 2 as well as the Korean War. This figure was Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers and was in charge of rebuilding both Korea as well as Japan. In a lot of pictures, he liked posing with his smoking pipe.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Who is MacArthur?
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
In which country did Kim Il-sung spend much of the 1930s and 40s fighting Japanese forces as a guerilla fighter?
What is China?
The Soviets were successful at doing this in 1949, making Joseph Stalin more confident about Kim Il-sung's invasion plans. It also marked the end of the United State's monopoly on this weaponry.
What is having nuclear weapons?
What is testing a nuke?
Unit 731 came from this country in World War II.
What is Japan?
The documentary commented that it was like going to 1950's Soviet Russia when they toured this place located in Pyongyang. Hint: this was where he kept waving at the North Korean people while on an escalator.
What is the subway?
What is the subway station?
Only about 30 miles from today's DMZ, this capital and largest city of South Korea used to be extremely poor around the time of the war.
What is Seoul?
This is the largest city and capital of North Korea. It became the de facto capital of North Korea in 1948.
What is Pyongyang?
Even before the war officially started, skirmishes occurred on both sides of this parallel, resulting in thousands of deaths for the North and South Koreans.
What is the 38th Parallel?
What is the 38th?
What are France, the Soviet Union, the UK, and the US.
This was Kim Il-sung's son who took over for him after his death in 1994. He was the leader of North Korea when the documentary came out over a decade ago.
Who is Kim Jong-il?
This was the codename for the American occupation of South Korea between 1945 and 1948. It was deemed a failure for several reasons such as distrust of the Korean people as well as not having anyone who could actually speak Korean in the military. Hint: 3 words. One has a color while another has a number.
What is Operation Blacklist Forty?
It was during this year that Kim Il-sung won heavily in national elections for North Korea. He would become the leader of the country under the Workers' Party of Korea.
What is 1949?
This leader took power in South Korea and became the Republic's first president from 1948 to 1960. After a military junta in 1960, he would flee to Hawaii to live out the remainder of his life.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
Who is Rhee?
This battle was the turning point for the Americans during their war with the Japanese in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?