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Korea Witness: 135 Years of War, Crisis and News in the Land of the Morning Calm
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Author: Donald Kirk
Publisher: EunHaeng NaMu
Pub. Date: Jan 2006
Pages: 456
Cover: Soft Cover
Dimensions (in inches): 5.90 x 8.85 x 1.06
ISBN: 9788956601557
Language: English
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ON THE FRONT LINE OF KOREAN HISTORY This book follows the long journey of correspondents who have passed through Korea. Since the first of them, photographer Felice Beato, arrived in 1871 with American troops invading Kangwha Island, foreign journalists have puzzled over this land, as complicated and fascinating now as 135 years ago. Famed author Jack London grappled with a blind horse. War reporters lived and died in sweltering heat and icy cold recording the horrors of the Korean War. Correspondents covered revolt and bloodshed in Gwangju, endured hours in the KCIA s dreaded interrogation center, and witnessed an assassination. These and many more episodes, chronicled here, reflect the violence and vitality of the land of the morning calm.

PREFACE 

I. HERMIT KINGDOM 
BETHELL'S TALE 
NINETEENTH-CENTURY STYLE 
THE FIRST KOREAN WAR 
BEDSIDE AT A REVOLT 
HOW JAPAN COVERED KOREA 
JAPANESE CORRESPONDENTS IN KOREA 

II. FORGOTTEN WAR 
GLORY AND TRAGEDY Some Won Prizes, Others Died 
LIFE AND DEATH OF A CORRESPONDENT 
TRAVELLER'S TALES: COVERING THE WAR IN KOREA 
FROM INVASION TO ARMISTICE 
FROM DAY ONE 
WAR OF SCOOPS 
A WOMAN AT WAR 
CRY PEACE 
THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY OF NO GUN RI 
MYSTERY CORRESPENDENT 
SAVING WAR ORPHAN 

III. DICATORSHIP UNDER FIRE 
HOTEL KCIA 
FLASHBACKS 
FIRST RED CROSS TALKS 
AN INSPIRING STORY 
NIGHTMARE COME TRUE 
SHOTS ARE HEARD 
THE BANG-BANG BRIGADE 
A DARK CHAPTER 

IV. TIME OF REBELLION 
FROM PARK TO REVOLT 
IMAGES OF HORROR 
EYEWITNESS 
KOREA'S TIANANMEN 
WITH TERRY AT THE CRUNCH 
SEVEN YEARS LATER 

V. TIME OF TRANSITION 
THE MANIPULATOR 
LOOKING AHEAD 
AFFAIR OF THE HEART 
AT WORK AND PLAY 
DEMOCRACY PROTESTS 
FROM DJ TO THE DMZ 
MY FIRST FOREIGN CORRESPENDENT 
INTO THE 80's 
FIREEN, FLORISTS AND FREE SPEECH 
MEMORIES, FIRST AND LAST 

VI. GLORY, SHOCKS AND SCANDALS 
LET THE GAMES BEGIN 
OLYMPICS TO WORLD CUP 
YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY 
INTO THE IMF ERA 
UNDER IMF CONTROL 
KOREAN VS. JAPANESE CONFLICT AND COOPERATION 
THE FALL OF SCIENTIST HWANG WOO SUK 
COVERING FOR TELEVISION 
ON THE BIRGHT SIDE 
FILM IN FOREIGN EYES 
BICULTURAL JOURNALISM 

VII. TO THE NORTH 
LOOKING BACK: INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS 
TO THE BOSOM OF THE GREAT LEADER 
FOURTH TUNNEL 
DATELINE PYONGYANG 
COVERING NORTH KOREA 
A MATTER OF ACCESS 
NEW BEGINNING THAT WASN'T 
THANK YOU, NORTH KOREA 
U.S. MEDIA AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA 

VIII. DEFENDING CORRESPONDENTS 
HOW THE SFCC BEGAN 
HOW THE SFCC BEGAN 
HOW FREE THE PRESS? 
NAMES AND FACES 
HITE BEER AND THE DEFENESTRATOR 
BATTLING THE SYSTEM 

INDEX
 
 

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