The War on “Red Drugs”: Anticommunism and Drug Policy in Republic of Korea, 1945-1960
This paper investigates the discourses and policies on narcotics in Republic of Korea from 1945 to 1960. Since the Liberation the narcotic problem was regarded as the vestige of Japanese imperialism. which was expected to be cleaned up. The image of narcotic crimes as the legacy of the colonial past...
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| Language: | English |
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Korean Society for the History of Medicine
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Uisahak |
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| Online Access: | http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-25-1-77.pdf |