ABSTRACT As the largest contingent of Americans in postwar South Korea, the G.I. best represented the United States’ Cold War objectives. Their deployment was an emblem of hard power containment, but the G.I. also embodied soft power integration, and through both, G.I.s helped to promote Pax Americana. This article focuses on the militarized masculinity of these ambassadors of America and their people-to-people diplomacy in South Korea between 1954 and 1966. These American G.I.s constructed their militarized masculinity vis-à-vis the Korean male Other, their “lesser” counterparts – the hapless houseboy, the inferior partner soldier, and the menacing slicky boy. At the same time, this liberal imperialism did not go uncontested. Violent imaginaries of the American G.I. from the borderlands were used by Koreans to demand a new bilateral framework – the Status of Forces Agreement in 1966 – to replace the outmoded wartime extraterritorial jurisdiction wielded by the American military after cessation of hostilities on the Korean peninsula in 1953. The militarized masculinity practiced in everyday encounters, thus, became the basis of a critique of American liberal imperialism in one of the United States closest Cold War “brother” nations.

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有争议的冷战兄弟会：1954-1966 年停战后韩国的 KATUSA、圆滑的男孩、美国 GI 和部队地位协议

摘要 作为战后韩国最大的美国人队伍，美国陆军最能代表美国的冷战目标。他们的部署是硬实力遏制的象征，但 GI 也体现了软实力整合，通过两者，GI 有助于促进美国和平。这篇文章的重点是这些美国大使的军事化男子气概以及他们在 1954 年至 1966 年间在韩国的民间外交。这些美国大兵针对韩国男性其他人（他们的“次等”对手）构建了他们的军事化男子气概——倒霉的宅男、劣等的搭档士兵、来势汹汹的油滑男孩。与此同时，这种自由帝国主义也并非没有争议。美国 GI 的暴力想象