Reviews
What surprised me about this book was thinking, how could someone with such strange ideas have been at the Korea Military Academy and even worked there until retirement? That's crazy... The army was disbanded at the end of the Joseon dynasty, and former soldiers went around robbing people... Kim Jwa-jin, too, as his nickname ‘Demon King’ suggests, took people's property to maintain his forces. Is that an independence army? Hong Beom-do... Lenin gave him a rifle as a gift. Of all the possible
I bought this planning to read it, but after martial law, I hate it so much I'll tear it up and throw it away. The Korea Military Academy is the very disgrace of the Republic of Korea's military.
In this hyperconnected, super-AI, super-innovation era, what are we forgetting? Are the wars in Russia and Ukraine and between Hamas and Israel, still breaking out in the 2020s, really far removed from us? Our proud Republic of Korea has confidently joined the ranks of developed nations alongside the most advanced age. Did Korea become what it is today simply with the passage of time? Major Kim O-rang, widely known from the film 12.12: The Day, which drew 13 million moviegoers, was a member of
[Review] After reading Cho Seung-ok's In Search of the Historical Roots of the Korea Military Academy. Cho Seung-ok graduated from the Academy with the 21st class and served as its philosophy professor from 1969 until mandatory retirement. He says he wrote this book to help Academy graduates, current students, applicants, and the general public understand its history and confirm its legitimacy. The book has five parts. Part 1 (1888–1895) focuses on Yeonmu Gongwon, Korea's first military
I'm surprised by how closely the Korea Military Academy is connected to our modern history. After reading this book, I think readers can form their own historical perspective on recent issues, including the debate over General Hong Beom-do at the Academy. I recommend it not only to people connected with the Academy, but also as a history resource for children and to anyone who wants a fresh perspective on the late Korean Empire and the struggle for independence. If you write another book, I
This is a valuable book for understanding the Korea Military Academy after Dr. Lee Dong-hui's Oh, Hwarangdae (1982) and General Chang Chang-guk's Korea Military Academy Graduates (1984). I think its coverage of Yeonmu Gongwon, the Korean Empire Military Academy, the New Military Academy, and the Army Military Academy in the late Joseon and Korean Empire periods is important for tracing roots and carrying on tradition. How much do Academy graduates and former students know about this? The New
The author traces the Korea Military Academy's roots to military schools in the early 1900s. This gives it a much deeper history than the academy commonly said to have been founded in 1946. I was also impressed that the book points to military schools, a name connected with our independence and national self-determination, rather than the Japanese-style term ‘military academy.’ I hope this book corrects mistaken views of the Academy and helps us think together about its contributions to our
Several historical issues are being debated, beginning with the recent controversy over placing General Hong Beom-do's statue at the Korea Military Academy. Although the Academy has left political blemishes, its history runs alongside our modern history, so this is a book I'd like to read at least once.
Jo Seung-ok: Army Academy
A major work written over more than seven years by philosopher Cho Seung-ok, author of Debates in Modern Philosophy of Science and translator of Military Ethics, drawing on historical records and memoirs from many fields. After leaving the Korea Military Academy, where he had served for 42 years, Cho set aside political and social positions and returned to the fresh perspective of a scholar to collect and investigate the Academy's history. Why does he speak now of tracing its roots? Our lives and home in this era are possible because of the many battles that fill Korean history, the great and small heroes who fell in them, and the military that supported them. If the Army is the origin of today's Republic of Korea Armed Forces and the Korea Military Academy trains Army officers, then revealing the Academy's roots may offer a standard for historical perspective in our time and help us plan for the future. The book traces the types of military academies, their historical settings and founders, key regulations and features in each period, and the work of educators and graduates, beginning with Yeonmu Gongwon (1888–1894), an early modern officer-training institution and the origin of Korea's military academies, and continuing to the Republic of Korea Military Academy (1946), reestablished 37 years after Japan forcibly closed the Korean Military Academy in 1909. Along this journey, the author revisits Korea's turbulent modern history and poses a shared question to our era: what should we take as our guide, and what must we struggle against today?
Korean title: 육군사관학교
Korean author: 조승옥
Korean publisher: 글씨앗
ISBN-13: 9791198111432
Reviews
What surprised me about this book was thinking, how could someone with such strange ideas have been at the Korea Military Academy and even worked there until retirement? That's crazy... The army was disbanded at the end of the Joseon dynasty, and former soldiers went around robbing people... Kim Jwa-jin, too, as his nickname ‘Demon King’ suggests, took people's property to maintain his forces. Is that an independence army? Hong Beom-do... Lenin gave him a rifle as a gift. Of all the possible
I bought this planning to read it, but after martial law, I hate it so much I'll tear it up and throw it away. The Korea Military Academy is the very disgrace of the Republic of Korea's military.
In this hyperconnected, super-AI, super-innovation era, what are we forgetting? Are the wars in Russia and Ukraine and between Hamas and Israel, still breaking out in the 2020s, really far removed from us? Our proud Republic of Korea has confidently joined the ranks of developed nations alongside the most advanced age. Did Korea become what it is today simply with the passage of time? Major Kim O-rang, widely known from the film 12.12: The Day, which drew 13 million moviegoers, was a member of
[Review] After reading Cho Seung-ok's In Search of the Historical Roots of the Korea Military Academy. Cho Seung-ok graduated from the Academy with the 21st class and served as its philosophy professor from 1969 until mandatory retirement. He says he wrote this book to help Academy graduates, current students, applicants, and the general public understand its history and confirm its legitimacy. The book has five parts. Part 1 (1888–1895) focuses on Yeonmu Gongwon, Korea's first military
I'm surprised by how closely the Korea Military Academy is connected to our modern history. After reading this book, I think readers can form their own historical perspective on recent issues, including the debate over General Hong Beom-do at the Academy. I recommend it not only to people connected with the Academy, but also as a history resource for children and to anyone who wants a fresh perspective on the late Korean Empire and the struggle for independence. If you write another book, I
This is a valuable book for understanding the Korea Military Academy after Dr. Lee Dong-hui's Oh, Hwarangdae (1982) and General Chang Chang-guk's Korea Military Academy Graduates (1984). I think its coverage of Yeonmu Gongwon, the Korean Empire Military Academy, the New Military Academy, and the Army Military Academy in the late Joseon and Korean Empire periods is important for tracing roots and carrying on tradition. How much do Academy graduates and former students know about this? The New
The author traces the Korea Military Academy's roots to military schools in the early 1900s. This gives it a much deeper history than the academy commonly said to have been founded in 1946. I was also impressed that the book points to military schools, a name connected with our independence and national self-determination, rather than the Japanese-style term ‘military academy.’ I hope this book corrects mistaken views of the Academy and helps us think together about its contributions to our
Several historical issues are being debated, beginning with the recent controversy over placing General Hong Beom-do's statue at the Korea Military Academy. Although the Academy has left political blemishes, its history runs alongside our modern history, so this is a book I'd like to read at least once.
