우리 대학 교양대학 데이비드 윌리엄 김(David William Kim)교수는 전세계 학국학연구 중심대학인  미국 University of Hawai’i at Mānoa에서 초청강연을 하고 현지학자들과 학술적 교류를 하였다. 

 

이 대학은 1907년에 설립되었고 학국학 연구소는 1972년에 설립되어 해외 한국학연구소 중에는 가장 오래된 역사와 규모를 자랑하고 있다. 
특히 University of Hawai’I Press에 세계적으로 유명한 A&HCI, SSCI, SCI(E), SCOPUS 저어널들을 전문적으로 출판하고 있다. 강연은 올해 2025년 한국전쟁 75주년을 기념하여 UN 참전국인 유럽 스칸디나비아 동맹 Sweden, Denmark, Norway의 비군사적인 의료지원정책을 Humanitarian 접근방법을 통해 아래와 같이 분석 공개하였다. 

 

 

The Korean War (1950–1953) was one of the most calamitous and brutal wars in modern history. It was fought by the post-colonial people of the peninsula, and it culminated in the creation of two ideologically opposed states, but the three years’ military clash in East Asia (or the Far East) is often labelled simply as a “Forgotten War” in the West including North America. The ensuing ethnic division has been interpreted through the various geopolitical lenses of military strategy, politics, international relations, and power games. What about the situation of casualties? Which particular nations in the United Nations (UN) dispatched medical aid for the treatment of war victims? How did the Scandinavian allies participate in the non-European war? What were their unique characteristics among non-military supporting nations? What legacy did they leave for the post-war Koreans? This lecture explores the military-historical backgrounds by which each of the following Northern European nations, namely, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, decided to send unarmed skilled personnel to aid South Korea. The lecture focuses on the social voluntarism of the neutral group in the critical insight that the field activities of Swedish Seojeon Byungwon, Danish Jutlandia, and Norwegian NORMASH individually promoted the Red Cross spirit of advanced humanitarianism on the top of mandatory duty, in giving special attention on children (orphans), women, civilians, POWs, and medical education, as well as the post-war collaboration for the initial Korean public health system in the 1960s.

For further details, see: 
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/koreanstudies/2025/01/16/voluntary-humanitarianism-in-medical-policy-uns-scandinavian-allies-at-the-korean-war-and-beyond-1950s-1960s-1033/