Stills of Descendants of the Sun
With the popularity of the Korean drama Descendants of the Sun, South Korea’s "Ouba" has a great and glorious new label-a soldier of the United Nations peacekeeping force.
In the fictional uruk region where OURCQ is full of domestic crises and diseases are spreading, Song Joong Ki plays Captain Si Jin Yoo, who calmly deals with all kinds of natural and man-made disasters and takes time to talk about love.
Some busybodies found that OURCQ (Urque River) does have its place. It is a small tributary of the Marne River in the eastern suburbs of Paris, with a total length of less than 90 kilometers, a narrow river and slow water flow. The prelude to the famous Battle of the Marne River in World War I started from here.
Obviously, two writers, Jin Enshu and Won-seok Kim, didn’t intend to rely on the play in World War I, otherwise it would be called crossing.
Spelling, the letter "Q" often appears in the translation of Latin letters of names and places in the Middle East, and both Latin letters and Greek letters were born in the Middle East. In the language of ancient semu, C, K and Q were actually pronounced in three different sounds, but this phenomenon did not exist in the languages of ancient Greeks and Romans who later borrowed these letters. Therefore, "Q" has become a symbol of human geography in the Middle East, such as "Iraq" in English and "Qom" in Iran.
Just as the American drama Homeland set up a scene of a Lebanese refugee camp in Germany, all the scenery of OURCQ in Descendants of the Sun was shot in Greece, but judging from the faint Mediterranean scenery and hilly landscape, Captain Si Jin Yoo should probably be stationed in Lebanon. This is consistent with the peacekeeping operations in which South Korea participates in reality.
Song song CP dating shipwreck bay shot Greece.
On July 8 and August 5, 1991, the governments of North Korea and South Korea submitted applications for membership respectively. After that, the DPRK and the ROK joined the review committee through the Security Council, and unanimously adopted this resolution at the UN General Assembly. On the opening day of the 46th UN General Assembly, the DPRK and the ROK formally joined the United Nations.
According to the data on the United Nations website, since South Korea sent its engineering troops to Somalia in 1993, it has so far sent 13,000 people to various United Nations peacekeeping operations. By the end of 2015, 627 people had participated in seven peacekeeping operations in South Sudan and Lebanon. （http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors.shtml）
At present, among the 627 Koreans participating in UN peacekeeping missions, there are 3 peacekeeping policemen, 16 military experts and 608 peacekeeping officers and soldiers. So what are the main arms of these Korean peacekeepers?
On September 28th last year, South Korean President park geun-hye attended and delivered a speech at the United Nations peacekeeping summit in new york, USA. Park geun-hye announced that South Korea will actively participate in the efforts of the international community to strengthen UN peacekeeping operations, and send more engineering troops to conflict areas to support local reconstruction and humanitarian activities.
The scene of the uruk earthquake in the play
In Descendants of the Sun, in episode 6, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 occurred in uruk, and Captain Si Jin Yoo participated in the disaster relief operation. This episode is in line with the main nature of South Korea’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations, and it is also well-founded in history.
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale struck Haiti. Many UN peacekeepers in Haiti were killed, including eight peacekeepers from China. At that time, China provided emergency aid and sent China International Rescue Team to Haiti for rescue.
South Korea has also provided emergency rescue supplies and dispatched emergency rescue teams to Haiti where a strong earthquake occurred to support Haiti’s reconstruction work.
It should be pointed out that the United Nations peacekeeping force is a form of United Nations peacekeeping operations, and the other two forms are military observer missions and multinational forces. The role of the United Nations peacekeeping forces is to prevent local conflicts from expanding, or to prevent conflicts from recurring, and to help civilians who have suffered in the war. After creating conditions for the final political settlement of conflicts, they should leave the conflict-stricken areas.
Therefore, Song Joong Ki’s role, although belonging to the Special Operations Guard, is aimed at alert and defense, and he must never take the initiative to attack without authorization.
In the TV series, Captain Si Jin Yoo is more like taking part in a military operation in which South Korea cooperates with its ally, the United States. This is indeed in line with the status quo of sending troops overseas several times since the founding of the Republic of Korea.
According to the statistics of South Korea’s website, by the end of 2014, South Korea had dispatched 1,389 soldiers in 15 countries and regions, including 316 in Lebanon, 297 in the Philippines, 299 in Somalia, 290 in South Sudan and 148 in the United Arab Emirates. （ http://www.peacekeeping.go.kr/763）
Since the Cold War, the track of South Korea sending troops overseas can be said to be in step with the deployment of the US military. During the Vietnam War, more than 320,000 South Korean soldiers cooperated with the US military and the South Vietnamese army to fight against the North Vietnamese army. Since then, there have been Gulf War, Iraq War and so on. According to public information, since 2001, a total of 24,000 South Korean officers and men have been deployed to the Middle East to participate in anti-terrorism operations.
Therefore, in this sense, it is extremely possible that Captain Si Jin Yoo will be stationed in Iraq. In 2004, South Korea sent 3,300 soldiers to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq to participate in the reconstruction operation. At that time, the Korean army ranked third after the US and British troops.
For the creators of film and television dramas in China, Descendants of the Sun is undoubtedly enlightening.
Because it involves national defense, the military theme can’t be filmed if you want. For the sake of good-neighborliness and national stability, China’s military-themed film and television dramas often choose red-blue confrontation in military exercises, fighting pirates and rescuing hostages. Therefore, the creators of many military TV dramas in China often fall into the embarrassment of proposition composition, that is, who is the imaginary enemy? At the same time, the scale of love between male and female soldiers will take some thought.
Of course, from Soldier Assault to Karan Blade, the story of China’s soldier brother has also become very fashionable. However, taking Descendants of the Sun as a mirror, China’s military TV series should be better. After all, China has sent the largest number of peacekeepers among the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the largest number of peacekeeping troop-contributing countries.
Liu Dawei saluted the earthquake victims.
