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특 집 군사연구 제130집 65 (Abstract) Understanding the Korean War though Visual Arts - Cho Eun jung - In modern warfare, photographs seem to capture the reality of the war. However, since photographs are taken only from one-side of selective standpoints, actually they convey manipulated and distorted reality. Thus, artworks which were created by people had in fact expressed the truthful side of the reality more than photographs in many cases. Unlike photographs that are based on selective perspectives, the visual images created by artists are meaningful, since they are records of the people who experienced the devastated war. In other words, the artworks exist as the results of the actual war experiences. Since experiences are personal matters and they are outcomes of limited notion and distorted memories, like oral histories, they must be followed by definite analysis. Nevertheless, since Korean War related visual references, especially artworks, had depicted the experiences of the Korean War, they are valued differently from the historical descriptions or data. It concentrates on one human being, who is living in the middle of the war; which means that, the Korean War that is recorded by artists, like battlefields, soldiers, and the everyday life after the war and etc., were considered to be their up to date experiences. During Korean War, artists worked as military artists in organizations, served in the army as artists, and as part of the Troop Information and Education Department, they created flyers for United Nations and South Korean troops and actively performed their role in the anti-communism guerrilla units. Military artists were in charge of recording the scenes of the war in images, and portraying soldiers’ activities. As a duty of cultured men, who are living in urgent times, military artists were in between the boundaries of soldiers who will be leading the pacification, and the general public who contains the passion of pure creation. Therefore, the war sights