Comments on: Heroes of the Korean War: COL Young-oak Kim

By: Korean in Japan

Korean in Japan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:45:57 +0000

I heard about young oak kim, but first time reading his bio online in detail. As i was reading, i visualized his combat life and thought to myself, he must of had angels flying above him. I guess there are heavenly reasons for keeping key individuals like him alive. His life story is truly inspiring. Amazing….

By: grant lee

grant lee — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:39:47 +0000

he is cool and he is like me. hahahahah. I,m grant the alsom.

By: grant lee

grant lee — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:36:06 +0000

this guy is a hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is bam off. and it is a really good idea to make this story to movie

By: Clarrise

Clarrise — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:24:43 +0000

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:59:48 +0000

It's a shame more people don't know about Col Kim and General Pak of ROKA.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:50:48 +0000

I'm not American, but it's always interesting to hear stories of someone breaking down barriers.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:42:44 +0000

That's a brilliant idea. If such a movie ever gets done, I hope it receives a treatment befitting of this great man.

By: CPT Kim

CPT Kim — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:33:35 +0000

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009... GI, the above website has LAT article on new LA Middle School named after COL Kim.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:19:52 +0000

Ever since I saw a movie "go for broke" I always thought that any one of 442 would out did Audie murphy…. Well Audie being white.. he may not have been over-looked in gettinmg what he deserved, The Medal of Honor for example, but many in 442 did. Certainly Captain Kim would be one of them. In my opinion all of those post war receipients of Medal of Honor who received it many years later-for that matter even some DSS and DSM winneers who not yet received it- could have received M.O.H out right at the incident had they been white. In my life there are only three people who I admire most and tried to emulate the lives they lived. They are Sun Sin Lee(Yi)the 16th century Korean Adimiral who with only 13 ships defeated over 133 ships strong Japanese naval forces. Audie Murphy a small Texan of Marine reject, who becomes war hero of his own right, and then there is Young Oak kim retired Colonel US Army. These three heroes each carries their own morale, value and other lessons to be learned, but Colonel Kim's stands out for three reasons 1: He basically volunteered for the leadership position of soldiers made of Japanese decendants where he could easily have denounce them or flat out refused to lead them because they are Korean's enemy 2:He lived and raised bar of the U.S Infanfry motto "Follow Me" (leadership by example)-he lived it during WWII and Korean war.

3 Unlike the other two of my other heroes even after his Military career he was still be able to involved in serving the nation and more importantly heavily involed in healing racially charged wounds. His compassion to forgive the enemy and devotion to human race is what we need to learn to make our world better.

P.S Can some one contact Korean American Movie makers or better yet contact Nicholas Cage our Cae sui-bang he have means to make this larger than life Colonel Kim's story to be made out to be big screen Movie after all he was once "war memorial" spokes person was'nt he?

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