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A Multicultural Magazine May 2006 Korean Vol. 1 No. 3 Ducks Living History From War Victim to State Senator Hippie Living Cultural Diversity Share your Feelings 0ROUDLYôSERVINGô5/ôSTUDENTS ANDôFACULTYôFROMôOVERôôCOUNTRIES 7EôAREôYOURô5NIVERSITYôOFô/REGONô"OOKSTOREôô$UCKô3HOPS 4HEô$UCKô3HOPSôAREôAôBRANCHôOFôTHEô5NIVERSITYôOFô/REGONô"OOKSTORE 9OURôPURCHASEôATôAô$UCKô3HOPôHELPSôSUPPORTô5/ôSTUDENTSôANDôFACULTY %5'%.%ô5/ô"OOKSTOREôô!UTZENô3TADIUMôô6ALLEYô2IVERô#ENTERôôô5/$UCK3HOPCOM 0/24,!.$ô37ôNDô9AMHILLôô7ASHINGTONô3QUAREô ô To Readers 3 0ROUDLYôSERVINGô5/ôSTUDENTS ANDôFACULTYôFROMôOVERôôCOUNTRIES Dear Readers, First, it is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you to the May issue of Korean Ducks. For this issue, we chose “Living History” as our main theme. By exploring and sharing the values and intellectual legacies of people from different cultures and backgrounds, we intend to expand your horizons and provide you, our readers, the opportunity to meet extraordinary men and women who have lived through extraordinary moments in history. Today, we are living in a highly globalized world. Indeed, the world is transforming into a place where no one can live only among people of their own ethnicity or nationality. Understanding the history of cultures is crucial. Without under- standing and respecting other cultures and histories, accepting the true meaning of multiculturalism is virtually impossible. This is the time to look back at our history and listen more carefully to those who have lived before us. The confusions of being globalized are com- mon, but there are many ways to prevent them from occurring. By observing and learning from what other people have experienced, we will be able to avoid the confusions and struggles, and fully under- stand the meaning of multiculturalism - to taste the true meaning of multiculturalism - in the process of accepting this new trend of globalization. Since September 2005, as a result of your warmest support and the clear vision of the Korean Ducks staff in pursuing the issue of multiculturalism, Korean Ducks has been able to welcome our third publication and become an officially registered organization at the University of Oregon. As founding members of the Korean Ducks community, we appreciate your invaluable support with all of our hearts, and promise to work continually toward the realization of our vision. Sincerely, 7EôAREôYOURô5NIVERSITYôOFô/REGONô"OOKSTOREôô$UCKô3HOPS 4HEô$UCKô3HOPSôAREôAôBRANCHôOFôTHEô5NIVERSITYôOFô/REGONô"OOKSTORE 9OURôPURCHASEôATôAô$UCKô3HOPôHELPSôSUPPORTô5/ôSTUDENTSôANDôFACULTY Young Cha and Hasang Cheon, Co-Directors and Founders %5'%.%ô5/ô"OOKSTOREôô!UTZENô3TADIUMôô6ALLEYô2IVERô#ENTERôôô5/$UCK3HOPCOM Starting from next issue, we will have a page devoted to you, our honored readers, where you can express 0/24,!.$ô37ôNDô9AMHILLôô7ASHINGTONô3QUAREô ô your opinion about Korean Ducks or ask us questions. Make your voice heard! @- [email protected] Korean May 2006 Vol. 1 No. 3 Cover photograph by Yoon Gyu Suh Ducks To Readers 3 A Message from the Co-Directors. 12 above: frog’s plastic animal friends. left: Yoko McClain glancing through history. right: soldier of the “forgotten war.” 6 far right: language chat in Eugene’s “Little Italy.” Living History 6 From Airplane Pistons to Digital Cameras. A Life Spanning Countries, Decades, and Cultures. by Tim Lane 9 Living Legend on Campus. Former Korean prime minister speaks about the 21st century global community. by Sojin Kim 10 Hippie Living. Peter Eberhardt brings modern history into the present day. by Hannah Shanks 12 Jumping Jokes. A Frog’s fight for his rights. by Cassie DeFillipo 14 John Lim: An American Success Story. From Korean War victim to Oregon State Senator. by Sara Hamilton Contents 5 Korean Ducks Co-Directors Young Cha Hasang Cheon Executive Editor Daniel Asenlund Editors Project 18 Cultural Diversity Conversations. Cassie DeFillipo Lina Hong by Yu-Chieh Hung, Theodora Ko Thompson, and Lisa Hong Cassie DeFillipo Sojin Kim Tim Lane Eric Lee Cara Pang Yeun Roh Hannah Shanks Executive Reporter Anna Kim Cultural Diversity Project Yu-Chieh Hung Executive Photographer Megumi Kaizu Photographers Maxime Guillon Da In Lee Executive Designer Yoon Gyu Suh Designers Tristen Knight Theodora Ko Thompson Chan Jae Park Executive Advertising Representative SooJin Huh 22 25 Advertising Sales Representatives Louis Kim Chul Won Lim Hae Jin Joo Community 22 Memories of the “Forgotten War.” Executive Accountant by Daniel Asenlund and Anna Kim Jeehye Cheon Accountants Campus Cultural Camaraderie. Victoria Hsu 25 Reiko Jinno by Cassie DeFillipo and Anna Kim Ji Young Wang Executive Coordinator Peter Eberhardt brings modern history into the present day. Sports 26 World Cup Fever. JiYeun Han by Daniel Asenlund and Hannah Shanks Public Relations Sara Hamilton A Frog’s fight for his rights. Entertainment 29 Korean Cinema’s Modern Metamorphosis. Faculty Advisors Mary-Kate Mackey by Josh Hoffman William E. Ryan Magid Shirzadegan Korean Ducks PO 30023 Eugene OR 97403 Phone: 541)514-0533 [email protected] Living History 6 Yoko McClain: From Airplane Pistons to Digital Cameras by Tim Lane photographs by Yoon Gyu Suh o walk into Yoko McClain’s that she did not experience any preju- When McClain arrived in Seattle she house is to walk into a les- dice. She did meet a Japanese gentle- had to take the train to Eugene because son on history and Japanese man however who had already spent air travel was much too expensive. Ar- culture, portrayed in the time in the US and told her that things riving on her new campus she imme- colors and shades of the were not always free of prejudice, say- diately noticed a stark contrast to her Tcontemporary. She requires each visitor ing that he used to not be able to get native land. to shed his or her outdoor shoes in favor good concert tickets or fair work wages. “What amazed me was how every- of slippers in her home, and is eager to “He told me, ‘you came at the right thing was so abundant in this country, talk about her new digital camera. Her time.’” because we were just starved to death house is clean, despite her insistence Before she came abroad, America all of the time.” that it is a mess, and with a stereo play- for McClain was only what Hollywood She came from a society in which ing classical music and her computer on and humming in the background it is evident that past and present mix continually in her home. In only the last sixty years, our soci- ety and our planet in general has expe- rienced change with an unprecedented intensity and speed, so much so that it may be hard for younger generations to come to a position of understanding or perspective. History-based movies such as Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor are big hits because the majority of Americans are out of touch with the very yesterdays that shape their todays. However, this is not a problem McClain has, and she doesn’t need to see those movies because she was there. In 1952 McClain arrived in the above: hands grounded in the past, United States from her native Japan as but made for the future. left: McClain as a student at the U of O a recipient of the Government Aid for in the mid 1950s. Relief in Occupied Areas grant, which is now the Fulbright scholarship. She had just received her degree in English “The American campuses and had spent the last few years of the were so beautiful and green war working in a factory making airplane parts, always ready and on alert to flee because when I left Japan to shelters in the case of air raids. She came from a Japan injured and there was still so many burnt from World War II. brown spots from all of the “The American campuses were so beautiful and green because when I left air raids.” Japan there was still so many brown spots from all of the air raids.” showed it to be. A place of gorgeous rationing was the norm and was thrown She came to the US on a propeller- people doing outrageous things. into dorm life with food on demand. powered plane that her mother thought McClain’s original motivation to learn She could not understand other stu- was going to crash. It was only seven English was so she could write a letter dents complaining about the food; for years after World War II had ended and to Tyrone Power, whom she deemed to her it was delicious. she says that she was very fortunate in be “the best looking actor on film.” McClain did not return to her however, is a shift that seems if home for the next thirteen years; not natural then familiar to her she studied and eventually taught because she has seen it progress in Eugene during that time. But step by step. She has been wit- she never became very homesick. ness to transformations in two “I just didn’t have any trouble countries and is in every sense of somehow.” the word a true dual citizen. Even In many ways Yoko McClain when McClain goes back to Japan followed a similar path of her she does not feel out of place. grandfather, the famous Japanese “I can be perfect Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki. Both when I go back. No one tells me studied English and pursued their I have changed. As soon as I get learning in foreign countries and out of the airport I just feel that I both have published books. A dif- am perfect Japanese. It seems ference though, is that her grand- like it is not that different.” father never became fully adapted McClain is retired now, and in his new culture while McClain spends her time writing, speaking has forged a life here. and traveling. She writes on top- Her grandfather is an important ics from cultural differences to the McClain’s original motivation to learn English was so she could write a letter to Tyrone Power, whom she deemed to be “the best looking actor on film.” figure in Japan and was featured subject of learning Japanese.

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