Possibly. However, It has been stated numerous times by various people involved in production that M*A*S*H was actually an allegory for Viet Nam. They may have left out references to Sung intentionally.

Nope wrong, Jet. They deliberately discredited Rhee the best they could. Mash was indeed about Korea. Favoring terrible North Korea at that!

Then I guess Larry Gelbart, Burt Metcalfe and Alan Alda were lying in the documentary? Forgive me if I take the statements of the people who actually made the series over yours. I just googled "Was M*A*S*H an Allegory for Viet Nam?" and got over a dozen links to articles saying that it was. You are mistaken, sir. M*A*S*H was an an allegory for Viet Nam.

First of all!!!! You cannot take the word of a left-winger. Especially a public figure of a left-winger. Left-winger is indeed synonym for dishonesty (and sometimes one-sided truths). Next, if Mash's creators wished not to be about Korea they should never have once mentioned Syngmann Rhee at all (especially not in a bad light)but they did. And badly and frequently!!

Their always bad conversations about Rhee killed any notions that Mash was an allegory for Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh was also a mass-murderer in that war as he killed many in a 1956 NV land reform but that is another story).

I've cited sources for my argument. All you've done is express YOUR opinion.

Opinion!?! Do you realize what you are saying. This warped show had (according to you!!!!!) Syngmann Rhee as a reallife symbolic allegory for Diem (of South Vietnam)? Ridiculous. Rhee's name being mentioned meant one person only--Rhee! Mash was about Korea!!!!

What makes you believe a slaughterer of human baby fetuses like women-libber Alan Alda is trustworthy? (Notice how under him not one Mash ep was ever about abortion. Plenty of controversial topics but not that!)

About left-wing dishonesty. Three facts for you.

1) African-americans rarely made up much more than 11% of America's population throughout the country's life as a republic (almost all the rest caucasian). Thus, one reason why more, say, 20th century American ads were not more about them.

2) Gynecology is mostly a late 19th century development (thus women's pregnancy was not that well understood)thus why women's lib was not around much in the 18th century.

3) Communist dictatorships in mid-to-late 20th century Asia all behaved atrociously beyond any believable measure (with North Korea, most specifically in this case, starting the Korean War hands down, a little known fact of course very conveniently never mentioned once on Mash).

Now all three absolutely true facts rarely make into a left-wingers understanding. And in the case of Alda, Gelbart, and Metcalfe none of these excusing facts of US behavior was an excuse in any way (even if small in facts one and two) for the behavior of many other western hemisphere nations as well (with some variation, like African-Canadians making up only about 1% of Canada's population with mostly all the rest caucasian) . These men very, very probably well-understood these important facts but it did not stop 'em from being mad as "H" about things and pushing their crazy left-wing agenda on Mash.

PS I used to correspond by email almost weekly with the late Larry Gelbart (when the only one one of the three vital facts I knew was African-American percentage of America). You can find his old postings at alt.tv.mash at deja.com. He is under than name Elsig (short for Larry Simon Gelbart).

I had a conversation two years ago with my modern sister about pregnancy not being that well understood until nearly 1900 and she said she could understand why it was deterrent to women doing a lot of things earlier.

Jet, I saw what you sarcastically posted on another board I was on so I am through responding to you. If any one else reads what I have written here it is the truth.

I wasn't being sarcastic.

Everyone I know that the lying left-wingers who made Mash outright publicly said it symbolically and thus slightly secretly represented Vietnam and at first it seems like wrongie Jet had every right on Earth to state that. But early on I had mentioned Rhee being mentioned on Mash. He or she, this Jet, should maybe have realized it was too weird and nutty a symbolism that Rhee really meant, say, Diem of South Vietnam. So unfortunately Jet acted wrong.

Weird and nasty how there was never a mention of Sung!

People thought the Mash actors and writers were nice folks. The public could never dream that the actors and writers were selective in what they cared about and just downright close minded in denying info if the info (like deadly North Korea started the Korean War) conflicted with their interests!