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Yong Kee of Korea
children's book
96 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1960
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Paul Anderson
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January 9, 2012
One of my favourite books from childhood. It's a very simple awesome story. Here's the synopsis
Dr. Anderson, as Chief of Textbooks in Korea after the Japanese surrender, grew to know and like Koreans, and it is out of this background that this story of 9-year old Yong Kee, has grown. A village boy, his father thought him too young to do man's work and he felt that neither girl's work nor small boy's work was for him. When finally included in an expedition to the hot regions where the tough grass grew, he was initiated into a man's world of fruitful labor. Though hands and legs ached with the all day grass cutting young Kee did a man's job. Within the framework of an easy reading vocabulary, the author conveys a sense of a peasant's life in rural Korea.
:)
A gem!
Dr. Anderson, as Chief of Textbooks in Korea after the Japanese surrender, grew to know and like Koreans, and it is out of this background that this story of 9-year old Yong Kee, has grown. A village boy, his father thought him too young to do man's work and he felt that neither girl's work nor small boy's work was for him. When finally included in an expedition to the hot regions where the tough grass grew, he was initiated into a man's world of fruitful labor. Though hands and legs ached with the all day grass cutting young Kee did a man's job. Within the framework of an easy reading vocabulary, the author conveys a sense of a peasant's life in rural Korea.
:)
A gem!
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