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title: '"That''s one Korean problem I can solve!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-thats-one-korean-problem-i-can-solve-1953/
description: A cigar-smoking man in a battered hat and waistcoat, his coat labelled 'J.Q. Public' over his arm, rolls down his sleeve on the steps of a door marked
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[!["That's one Korean problem I can solve!", 1953 US cartoon: A cigar-smoking man in a battered hat and waistcoat, his coat](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-thats-one-korean-problem-i-can-solve-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-thats-one-korean-problem-i-can-solve-1953.jpg)

# "That's one Korean problem I can solve!"

A cigar-smoking man in a battered hat and waistcoat, his coat labelled 'J.Q. Public' over his arm, rolls down his sleeve on the steps of a door marked 'Blood Donor Center' with a red cross, beside a bulletin reading 'Critical shortage of whole blood for wounded U.N. fighting men!' He says: 'That's one Korean problem I can solve!' The technique tell is plain-folks: an everyman figure (J.Q. Public) models the desired action of giving blood.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BLOOD DONOR CENTER
BULLETIN
CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF WHOLE BLOOD FOR WOUNDED U.N. FIGHTING MEN!
THAT'S ONE KOREAN PROBLEM I CAN SOLVE!
J.Q. PUBLIC
JIM BERRYMAN
```

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