This new four-part series examines four Pacific Rim Countries - Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore - that are rising in power and influence to rival front-runner Japan in Foreign investment trade, and internal industrial growth.

The series begins with a look at the explosive growth, change, and disparity between rich and poor reflected in modern-day Korea. This episode presents a profile of a country at a crossroads, posed on the brink of democratization. This film captures the profound challenges faced by South Korea's people as they grapple with the impending transition to a highly technical, service-based economy.

For over a century. Prospering and developing along with the people of Korea, Yonsei University has succeeded creatively in promoting knowledge tradition ideals. Under the development plan "Yonsei the 21st Century", we will raise up leaders for internationalization, a university for research, and a university for the world.

Korea: The Unknown War




Part 1: Many Roads to War

Part 2: An Arrogant Display of Strength

Part 3: There is No Substitute for Victory

Part 4: An Entirely New War





Part 5: The Battle for Minds

Part 6: Armed Truce

A six part series opens by tracing the "Many Roads to War" that followed the division of Korea at the 38th Parallel after WWII.

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From June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953, the U.S. and 17 other countries engaged in "the United Nation's first and only war". Some 54,000 Americans died, 1,103,000 were wounded. A six-part series opens by tracing the "Many Roads to War" that followed the division of Korea at the 38th Parallel after WWII.

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"An Arrogant Display of Strength" chronicles the rapid fall of Seoul; a hard-fought stand at the "Pusan perimeter"; disputes between General MacArthur and President Truman over U.S. policy in Asia.

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"There is No Substitute for Victory", says General Douglas MacArthur (voice of Charlton Heston), who engineers a bold landing of U.S. and South Korean troops at Inchon, which severs the enemy's supply line to Pusan. Also, Seoul is retaken; UN forces cross into the North.

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China's entry in late 1950 makes it "An Entirely New War", but trapped American and allied forces lose more men to frostbite than battle. Seoul changes hands again; General Matthew Ridgway's "meat grinder" strategy uses superior U.S. artillery and air power.

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Fighting continues as peace talks at Panmunjom - and "The Battle for Minds" - begin. Propaganda focuses on the treatment and repatriation of POWs; and charges by the North - allegedly confirmed in the "confessions" of captured American pilots - that the U.S. used germ warfare.

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President-elect Eisenhower honors his pledge to "go to Korea", fighting intensifies and the Panmunjom talks drag on in "Armed Truce". The "loose cannon" is South Korean President Rhee, who tries to sabotage a possible armistice by releasing more than 20,000 anti-Communist North Korean POWs.

Acclaimed by critics and audiences throughout the world, Why has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? is simply one of the most ravishing films ever made. In a remote monastery high up in the mountains an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment. The title of the film is a Zen koan - an unanswerable riddle that is both a challenge and an aid on the path to spiritual transformation. This magnificent film, astonishingly rich in its formal beauty and affirmation of life, is not only an extraordinary cinematic gem but a transcendent evocation of the mystery and humanity of Zen Buddhism. [Directed by Bae Yong-Kyun]