Frank Baldwin, Diane Jones, and Michael Jones, America's Rented Troops: South Koreans in Vietnam. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1975. 45 pp. I have not seen this, but I am told it contains considerable information about Korean atrocities in Vietnam.
Robert M. Blackburn, Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "More Flags": The Hiring of Korean, Filipino and Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994. 176 pp.
Christos G. Frentzos, "From Seoul to Saigon: United States-Korean Relations and the Vietnam War." Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of Houston, 2004. 317 pp. AAT 3153744. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."
Katsuichi Honda, Vietnam War: A Report through Asian Eyes. Tokyo: Mirai-Sha, 1972. 511 pp. Honda was a correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, in South Vietnam from December 1966 to October 1967, and in North Vietnam in 1968. He is quite critical of the United States. Interestingly, he has a much higher opinion of the Korean forces in Vietnam, stating (pp. 239-46) that his observations did not support the widespread reports of Korean brutality in Vietnam.
Hyun Sook Kim, "Korea's 'Vietnam Question': War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation in Asia." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 9:3 (2001), pp. 622-635. The text is available online to subcribers of Project MUSE.
Korea and Vietnam. Seoul: Ministry of Public Information, Republic of Korea, 1967. 135 pp.
Tae Yang Kwak, "The Anvil of War: The Legacies of Korean Participation in the Vietnam War." Ph.D. dissertation, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard, 2006. 306 pp. AAT 3217796.
Eun Ho Lee and Yong Soon Yim, The Politics of Military Civic Action: The Case of South Korean and South Vietnamese Forces in the Vietnam War. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1980. 112 pp.
Jong-Sup Lee and Uk Heo, The U.S. - South Korean Alliance, 1961-1988: Free-Ride or Bargaining? Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2002. 236 pp.
Sang-Dawn Lee, "Big Brother, Little Brother: The American Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years." Ph.D. dissertation, American Studies (?), University of Texas, 2001. 229 pp. AAT 3008378.
Joo-Hong Nam, America's Commitment to South Korea: The First Decade of the Nixon Doctrine. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Major Ronald R. Rasmussen, USA, "ROK Operations in Central Vietnam" Military Review, January 1968 (vol. XLVIII, no. 1), pp. 51-55).
Kil J. Yi,
"Alliance in the Quagmire: The United States, South Korea,
and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968". Ph.D. dissertation, History, Rutgers,
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