Dear all,
The Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at FAU
Erlangen-Nrnberg, headed by Prof. Maria Rentetzi, invites you to participate
in its next guest lecture:
Prof. John P. DiMoia - "From Occupation to Containerization"
Thursday, June 23, 2022, 18:00 CET
To join via Zoom please register here: https://tinyurl.com/yc7v8d4f.
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the primary mechanism for conveying
personal goods for American military personnel was the Transporter, a leftover
from World War II, and the CONEX (Container Express) box, a predecessor to the
more recent ISO (International Organization for Standardization) shipping
container. This form of conveyance transformed port cities such as Incheon and
Busan from their recent history as part of the Japanese empire (1910-45), and
previously, Joseon Korea. The subsequent "success story" of the ISO container,
often told as a story of European shipping, or alternatively, American
trucking, remains heavily embedded within a wartime context, in this case, the
period preceding and leading up to American involvement in Vietnam (1965). A
Los Angeles architectural firm, DMJM (Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall)
helped to design plans for Vietnamese ports in the early 1960s, helping to
ease the transition from French colonialism. With the commitment to Vietnam,
break-bulk shipping, with goods handled by teams of stevedores, needed to be
replaced by containerization, especially at sites such as Cam Ranh Bay, one of
the major intake points for goods. As a corollary to this rapid development of
logistics, the Asian subcontractors (Japan, Korea, Philippines) involved in
this process borrowed and used this technology while participating in Vietnam
but also while transforming their own domestic ports. This paper tracks the
Korean firm Hanjin and its use of the technology in Vietnam (Qui Nhon, Cam
Ranh), along the migration of the technology to Busan by the early 1970s.
John P. DiMoia is Professor of Korean History at Seoul National University
(SNU). He is the author of Reconstructing Bodies (2013, Stanford/WEAI), and
one of the co-editors of Engineering Asia (2018, Bloomsbury/WEAI). From June
2022, he will be editor of the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. His current
project in progress is titled "Peace and Construction: Korean
Developmentalism, Built Environment, and Southeast Asia, 1954-present," and
seeks to link Korean overseas work culture, construction projects, and labor
policies to Southeast Asia beginning in the mid- to late 1950s, following the
Korean War.
Best wishes,
Bjrn Bosserhoff
Dr. Bjrn Bosserhoff
Project Manager ERC project "Living with Radiation" (HRP-IAEA)
Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies
FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg
bjoern.bosserhoff@fau.de
https://www.stgs.fau.de/
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