‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 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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Publicado: The Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10565043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301856
http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2016.25.77
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description 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 was turned into as the result of the Red Army’s tactics to attack on the liberalist camp around the Korean war. The government of ROK represented the source of the illegal drugs as the Red army and the spy from North Korea. The anticommunist discourse about narcotics described the spies, who introduced the enormous amount of poppies into ROK and brought about the addicts, as the social evil. Through this discourse on poppies from North Korea, the government of ROK emphasized the immorality of the communists reinforcing the anticommunist regime, which was inevitable for the government of ROK to legitimize the division of Korea and the establishment of the government alone. This paper examines how the discourses and policies on narcotics in ROK was shaped and transformed from 1945 to 1960 focusing the relationship between the them and the political context such as anticommunism, Korean war, the division of Korea, and etc. This approach would be helpful to reveal the effect of the ROK’s own political situation to the public health system involving the management for drugs.
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spelling pubmed-105650432023-11-07 ‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 1945-1960 Uisahak Featured Article 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 was turned into as the result of the Red Army’s tactics to attack on the liberalist camp around the Korean war. The government of ROK represented the source of the illegal drugs as the Red army and the spy from North Korea. The anticommunist discourse about narcotics described the spies, who introduced the enormous amount of poppies into ROK and brought about the addicts, as the social evil. Through this discourse on poppies from North Korea, the government of ROK emphasized the immorality of the communists reinforcing the anticommunist regime, which was inevitable for the government of ROK to legitimize the division of Korea and the establishment of the government alone. This paper examines how the discourses and policies on narcotics in ROK was shaped and transformed from 1945 to 1960 focusing the relationship between the them and the political context such as anticommunism, Korean war, the division of Korea, and etc. This approach would be helpful to reveal the effect of the ROK’s own political situation to the public health system involving the management for drugs. The Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2016-04 2016-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10565043/ /pubmed/27301856 http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2016.25.77 Text en © 대한의사학회 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 1945-1960
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title_fullStr ‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 1945-1960
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title_short ‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 1945-1960
title_sort ‘적색 마약’과의 전쟁: 한국의 마약 정책과 반공주의, 1945-1960
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10565043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301856
http://dx.doi.org/10.13081/kjmh.2016.25.77
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