--- title: Welfare Activities of the Korean Tiger Division url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korean-tiger-division-welfare-1965-to-1969/ description: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1107) is headed 'Social work of the Korean Tiger Division' and shows Korean army medics treating a child. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Welfare Activities of the Korean Tiger Division [![Welfare Activities of the Korean Tiger Division, 1965 US poster: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1107) is headed 'Social work](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/korean-tiger-division-welfare-1965-to-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/korean-tiger-division-welfare-1965-to-1969.jpg) # Welfare Activities of the Korean Tiger Division A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1107) is headed 'Social work of the Korean Tiger Division' and shows Korean army medics treating a child, taekwondo displayed before a crowd, a banquet for village elders under an 'Elder People Respect' banner, and Korean soldiers building a school or clinic. The text says Korean medical teams treat civilians and wounded Viet Cong and closes: 'Vietnam and Korea clasp hands, resolved to destroy the Viet Cong.' Welfare scenes and a military aim share one sheet, in a Vietnamese text with Korean lines beneath. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CÔNG TÁC XÃ HỘI CỦA SƯ ĐOÀN MÃNH HỔ ĐẠI HÀN [Korean text, not transcribed] Các Toán Y Tế của Quân Đội Đại Hàn hàng ngày khám bệnh và phát thuốc cho dân chúng đau ốm và bệnh tật và cho cả các thương bệnh binh Việt Cộng. [Korean text, not transcribed] Hàng ngàn thanh niên, học sinh, công chức và quân nhân đã và đang thực tập môn võ Thái cực đạo do các huấn luyện viên Quân Đội Đại Hàn huấn luyện. [Korean text, not transcribed] [banner in photograph, partly legible:] ...LIÊN HOAN GIỮA CÁC PHỤ-LÃO VIỆT-NAM VÀ ... / ELDER PEOPLE RESPEC[T]... Tình thân hữu giữa Quân Đội Đại Hàn và dân chúng địa phương, nhất là các vị bô lão, ngày càng bền chặt. [Korean text, not transcribed] Trường học, bệnh xá, cầu cống đang được Quân Đội Đại Hàn xây cất trong chương trình Xây Dựng Nông thôn và Bình Định xứ sở của Chính Phủ Việt Nam Cộng Hoà. [Korean text, not transcribed] VIỆT NAM VÀ ĐẠI HÀN XIẾT CHẶT TAY NHAU CƯƠNG QUYẾT TIÊU DIỆT VIỆT CỘNG. [Korean text, not transcribed] SP-1107 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` SOCIAL WORK OF THE KOREAN TIGER DIVISION [Korean text, not transcribed] The Medical Teams of the Korean Army examine and give out medicine every day to sick and ailing people and even to wounded and sick Viet Cong soldiers. [Korean text, not transcribed] Thousands of young people, students, civil servants and soldiers have been and are practising the martial art of Taekwondo, trained by instructors of the Korean Army. [Korean text, not transcribed] [banner in photograph, partly legible:] ...GATHERING BETWEEN THE ELDERS OF VIET-NAM AND ... / ELDER PEOPLE RESPEC[T]... The friendship between the Korean Army and the local people, especially the elders, grows ever closer. [Korean text, not transcribed] Schools, clinics and bridges are being built by the Korean Army under the Rural Construction and Pacification-of-the-Country programme of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam. [Korean text, not transcribed] VIETNAM AND KOREA CLASP HANDS TIGHTLY, RESOLVED TO DESTROY THE VIET CONG. [Korean text, not transcribed] SP-1107 ``` Korean text is marked and not transcribed throughout. [← The Marines of Korea Bring Protection and Help to the People of Vietnam, poster (306-VP-01-1600)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korean-marines-protection-and-help-1965/) [Quân đội Đại-Hàn ngoài công tác chống cộng còn giúp đỡ và bảo vệ dân chúng (Korean Troops Not Only Fight VC-They Help and Protect the People) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korean-troops-not-only-fight-vc-help-and-protect-people-poster-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.