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My Battle for Seoul, Summer, 1950
(From the back of the dust jacket of the 1st English edition)
My Battle for Seoul, Summer, 1950 impressed people with its honest narration about the scary and sad experience of the Korean War. It was astonishing work for the writer, Ms. Ockhee Cheong as well as in the history of essay literature. As of reading it, it's inevitable to think upon the deep scar from the war and the wandering destiny of human kind.
The war started 60 years ago, and everyone is mostly forgetting the harsh anxiety, suffering, poverty, and starvation. Within this situation, the existence of a distinguishing voice with awakening memory is such a fortune. If one nation cannot obtain a lesson from its past, it does not own a future. A person who dreams about a beautiful future should put his or her feet on the road from the past to the present and that's the only way to make his or her dream whole and steady. The book keeps the war experience and record as realistic as possible, and carries a special talent f forming that experience as literature. It makes a big different to choose a right bowl and a cover for the same subject matter. Ms. Ockhee Cheong's writing is shining for this kind. The love for human beings over desperate reality, and the passion for warm recovery leads the work to an excellent example of human triumph as well as human life declaration.
- Kim Jong-Hoi(Professor at Kyung Hee University, President of Association of Korean Literature Critics)
My Battle for Seoul, Summer, 1950 impressed people with its honest narration about the scary and sad experience of the Korean War. It was astonishing work for the writer, Ms. Ockhee Cheong as well as in the history of essay literature. As of reading it, it's inevitable to think upon the deep scar from the war and the wandering destiny of human kind.
The war started 60 years ago, and everyone is mostly forgetting the harsh anxiety, suffering, poverty, and starvation. Within this situation, the existence of a distinguishing voice with awakening memory is such a fortune. If one nation cannot obtain a lesson from its past, it does not own a future. A person who dreams about a beautiful future should put his or her feet on the road from the past to the present and that's the only way to make his or her dream whole and steady. The book keeps the war experience and record as realistic as possible, and carries a special talent f forming that experience as literature. It makes a big different to choose a right bowl and a cover for the same subject matter. Ms. Ockhee Cheong's writing is shining for this kind. The love for human beings over desperate reality, and the passion for warm recovery leads the work to an excellent example of human triumph as well as human life declaration.
- Kim Jong-Hoi(Professor at Kyung Hee University, President of Association of Korean Literature Critics)
165 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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June 20, 2015
This is a short book to be certain. However, the length of this book proves that Ms. Ockhee Cheong is truly a wonder as she is able to convey so much emotion, history and experiences into this simple, yet complex, book. She takes her experience during the Korean war and brings us a story that makes you feel as if you were there. I cannot recommend this book enough since it is one story which we rarely hear about....the stories of those who were a part of the "forgotten war".
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