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Collection
Identifier: 3351
Abstract
This collection consists of Peace Corps volunteer Bob Chudy's tourist brochures, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, Korean language and culture books, and research papers on Korean culture.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3330
Abstract
The Paul Courtright papers contain photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, reports, books, correspondence, journals, and other material collected and/or created by Paul Courtright, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was stationed in the Jeonnam Province of South Korea from 1979 to 1981. While working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea, Courtright witnessed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Courtright later published a book, Witnessing Gwangju: A...
Dates:
1905 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: 3326
Abstract
The collection contains a box of mixed materials mostly dating from the 1960s to 2010s. Topics include military dictatorship's crackdown on the freedom of the press which targeted in particular the Dong-A Ilbo by suppressing its advertisements; reunification of Korea; relations between Korea, the U.S, and Japan during the South Korea-Japan normalization treaty of 1965.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1962 - 2014
Collection
Identifier: 3015
Abstract
Robert T. Oliver was an American author, professor, specialist in Asian rhetoric and communication, and advisor to South Korean President Syngman Rhee. This small collection consists of his professional and personal correspondence during his life and career, as well as articles, clippings, and some photographs.
Dates:
1911 - 1993
Collection
Identifier: 3324
Abstract
Gary Rector (1943-2018) was an American Korean copywriter, editor, translator, and former Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea. After Peace Corps service as a volunteer, he became a naturalized Korean citizen in 1994 and spent his whole life in Korea. The collection contains four boxes of mixed materials including photos, videotapes, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and other documents mostly dating from the 1960s to the 2000s. The topics contain his childhood,...
Dates:
1943 - 2017