Chronicles Korea's history from ancient times to the rule of Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il, discussing medieval Korea, Korean tradition, modernization, Japanese dominion, the Korean War, and the relationship between North and South Korea.
"It's 1950 and the Communist country of North Korea has invaded its neighboring country of South Korea. The United Nations has stepped in to help South Korea by providing weapons and soldiers. Nearly all of these soldiers come from the United States. Will you: Serve as a pilot in Korea with the U.S. Marine Corps? Lie about your age to enlist as a 16 year old member of the U.S. military reserves? Join in the fight for your country as a young South Korean man? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death"--Provided by the publisher.
Hyun Jin is disowned by her parents after they find out she is carrying an American GI's baby, and her best friend takes her in and helps her care for herself and her unborn child.
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Regret, a young woman in early twentieth-century Korea, agrees to become a mail-order bride to a prosperous man in Hawaii for the chance at an education, but arrives to find her situation less than what she was promised, and soon joins with others like her to make her own way in her adopted city of Honolulu.
