Author : Yi Eunhong
Publisher : Hollym


The story, geared towards young readers age 9-15, has a theme of love of country and love of family in the late 19th century and in the early 20th as young readers follow the life’s journey of Philip Jaisohn who loved Korean nation as a liberal democrat. Beginning with the story that Dr. Philip told her daughter Muriel his life journey, the cartoon book explores all facets of Philip’s life such as a father, a journalist, a founder of the first Korean newspaper in Hangul, the Independent News, a fighter for Korea’s independence, first naturalized American citizen of Korean descent, first Korean American medical doctor, and a reformer for Korea’s democratization, and so on.


This book is written in English and Korean

Bilingual.


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People own the country. How can you have a nation without its people?
I’ve lived with only one mission in life: democracy. I love my motherland and my family. That’s all. I am a simple man.

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