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

By: Clarrise

Clarrise — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:24:43 +0000

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

By: John

John — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:59:48 +0000

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

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:50:48 +0000

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

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:42:44 +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 14:33:35 +0000

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/07/16/2009071600291.html

GI, the above website has LAT article on new LA Middle School named after COL Kim.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:19:52 +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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By: Cpt KIM

Cpt KIM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:41:10 +0000

“….Kim despite his strong Korean nationalist background had no problems serving with Japanese-Americans in the 442nd RCT because he considered them and himself all Americans fighting for a common cause….”

Prior to his reporting to 100th Battalion at Camp Shelby, MS, the newly commissioned 2LT Kim took a leave enroute from Fort Benning OCS. He visited some of his Japanese-American high school friends’ families in Arkansas internment camp. During his stay at the internment camp, he became some kind of folk hero/role model for younger Japanese-American boys. Here was an Asian American Commissioned Officer who was getting salutes from White Enlisted MP guards. When he finally reported to the 100th Battalion CO, he already made up his mind to serve in all Japanese American unit. I assessed that the visit to Japanese-American internment camp made have influenced him to stay with all Japanese-American unit.