Publisher: EunHaengNaMu
Pub. Date: May. 2006
Paperback: 455 pages
Dimensions (in inches): 8.86 x 5.98 x 1.18
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About This Book
The foreign correspondent---covering the news in far off lands, often in
difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions. It's a tough and often
thankless job, where writers are far from home, at times culturally
isolated, pressed by editors and deadlines, occasionally mocked by
resentful local reporters, harassed by authorities and forced to keep up
with the complex happening and events around them. Yet it is through
their perseverance, determination and sacrifice that we can follow
events on the other side of the globe, be it human interest stories in
African villages or the scenes of carnage and war in Baghdad.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Seoul Foreign
Correspondents Club, the rather unassuming lounge in the upper floors of
the Seoul Press Center where foreign correspondents often meet to unwind
after a tough week of following Dynamic Korea, veteran foreign
correspondent Donald Kirk, who has been in and out of Korea since 1972,
and International Herald Tribune correspondent Choe Sang Hun have
compiled "Korea Witness: 135 Years of War, Crisis and News in the Land
of the Morning Calm." The work follows the long, illustrious and at
times difficult path walked by generations of foreign correspondents who
have come to Korea since 1871, when photographer Felice Beato became the
first one when he landed with invading U.S. troops on Ganghwa Island.
At 455 pages, it's a hefty work, but one that Korean history buffs
and/or students of journalism will eat up in no time flat. It's broken
into eight sections, covering the history of foreign journalism in Korea
from the first modern Western contacts with Korea at the close of the
19th century straight up to the present day. To say that the stories
contained within are fascinating would be a major understatement. Follow
Western correspondents as they covered the clashing armies of the
Russo-Japanese, including Jack London's not-so-pleasant tour as a war
correspondent. Read Choe Sang Hun recall how he---then a correspondent
with AP---broke in 1999 the story of the killing of refugees by U.S.
troops at Nogun-ri during the Korean War. Students of modern Korean
history will no doubt want to read German journalist and cameraman
Juergen Hinzpeter's account of covering the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Or
for that matter, Michael Breen's account of his trip to North Korea for
late North Korean leader Kim Il-sung's third and last foreign press
interview. Lesser-discussed issues---Japanese coverage of Korea during
the colonial period, for instance---are also examined, making a read of
the compilation an extremely rich and rewarding experience.
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