--- title: Republic of Korea Medical Team Work in Phu Yen url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korean-medical-team-phu-yen-1966/ description: A landscape photo sheet under a green headline reports that a 17-member Republic of Korea medical team arrived at Tuy Hòa on 4 August 1966 to serve in Phú section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Republic of Korea Medical Team Work in Phu Yen [![Republic of Korea Medical Team Work in Phu Yen, 1966 US poster: A landscape photo sheet under a green headline reports that](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/korean-medical-team-phu-yen-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/korean-medical-team-phu-yen-1966.jpg) # Republic of Korea Medical Team Work in Phu Yen A landscape photo sheet under a green headline reports that a 17-member Republic of Korea medical team arrived at Tuy Hòa on 4 August 1966 to serve in Phú Yên for a year. Photographs show the team before a transport aircraft, its leader Dr. Kim Jung Soo and Korean and Vietnamese staff operating together. A closing banner links allied aid to defeating the Viet Cong. The tell is a named allied team presented as a gift to the province. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CÔNG TÁC CỦA ĐOÀN Y-TẾ ĐẠI HÀN TẠI PHÚ YÊN ĐOÀN Y-TẾ ĐẠI HÀN GỒM 17 CHUYÊN VIÊN ĐÃ ĐẾN GIÚP ĐỠ DÂN CHÚNG TỈNH PHÚ YÊN. ĐOÀN CÓ 3 BÁC-SĨ, 6 Y-TÁ, CHUYÊN VIÊN KỸ THUẬT VÀ NHÂN VIÊN PHỤ TRÁCH HÀNH CHÁNH ĐÃ ĐẾN TUY HÒA NGÀY 4-8-1966. HỌ SẼ PHỤC VỤ TẠI PHÚ YÊN TRONG THỜI HẠN MỘT NĂM. ĐOÀN HOẠT ĐỘNG NHIỀU NHẤT TẠI BỆNH VIỆN TUY HÒA LÀ NƠI QUEN THUỘC CỦA ĐOÀN. NHỮNG ĐOÀN Y-TẾ KHÁC CỦA ĐẠI HÀN CŨNG ĐANG HOẠT ĐỘNG TẠI NHIỀU TỈNH KHÁC TẠI VIỆT-NAM CỘNG-HÒA. Bác-sĩ KIM JUNG SOO Trưởng Đoàn Y-Tế. Đoàn y-tế Đại Hàn đến phi trường Đông-Tác, Phú Yên ngày 4-8-1966. Các Sĩ Quan trong Trung Đoàn 2 Thủy Quân Lục Chiến Đại Hàn đã đón đoàn tại phi trường. Y-Tá Việt và Đại Hàn hợp tác chặt chẽ phục vụ dân chúng Phú Yên. CHÍNH PHỦ VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA VÀ CÁC NƯỚC BẠN ĐỒNG MINH NỖ LỰC TRONG CÔNG TÁC GIÚP ĐỠ NHÂN DÂN CŨNG NHƯ ĐÁNH BẠI VIỆT CỘNG VÀ BỌN XÂM LĂNG BẮC VIỆT. SP-1396 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` WORK OF THE KOREAN MEDICAL TEAM IN PHÚ YÊN THE KOREAN MEDICAL TEAM OF 17 SPECIALISTS HAS COME TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF PHÚ YÊN PROVINCE. THE TEAM HAS 3 DOCTORS, 6 NURSES, TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, AND ARRIVED AT TUY HÒA ON 4-8-1966. THEY WILL SERVE IN PHÚ YÊN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR. THE TEAM WORKS MOST AT TUY HÒA HOSPITAL, WHICH IS THE TEAM'S FAMILIAR PLACE. OTHER KOREAN MEDICAL TEAMS ARE ALSO WORKING IN MANY OTHER PROVINCES IN THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM. Dr. KIM JUNG SOO, Head of the Medical Team. The Korean medical team arrives at Đông Tác airfield, Phú Yên, on 4-8-1966. Officers of the 2nd Regiment of the Korean Marine Corps welcomed the team at the airfield. Vietnamese and Korean nurses cooperate closely in serving the people of Phú Yên. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AND THE FRIENDLY ALLIED COUNTRIES ARE MAKING EFFORTS IN THE WORK OF HELPING THE PEOPLE AS WELL AS DEFEATING THE VIET CONG AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE INVADERS. SP-1396 ``` Read from the image; some diacritics in the smaller caption type are faint and could not be fully verified. 'Y-Tá' is rendered 'nurses' and 'chuyên viên' as 'specialists'. The phrase 'bọn xâm lăng Bắc Việt' is rendered literally as 'the North Vietnamese invaders' (the word 'bọn' carries a contemptuous tone). [← Ceremony Presenting a House and Market Stall to Two Slain Hamlet Chiefs' Families, Gò Vấp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gia-dinh-house-and-stall-ceremony-go-vap-1966/) [103 VC Soldiers Return to Work for Their Home Land →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/103-viet-cong-soldiers-return-home-1967/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon) - [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon) - ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons. - ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon) - ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)