MY KOREAN IDENTITY AND QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING (Korean Youth
Studies, 1), edited by Sora Yang of Sydney, Australia, is a very
important book in the area of Korean studies. This ground-breaking
book contains 13 articles by Korean youth from around the world, in
India, Africa, Australia, and the USA. The winner of the 2008
Global Rev. Ham Suk-Hyun Essay Contest, on the topic of "My Korean
Identity," Sora Yang has contributed important articles on
Australian Korean community, which is a growing Korean community
around the world. Sora Yang also explores her own identity as a
Korean and an Australian. Jung-Im Jeong, a Student Council
secretary at Canadian International School in India and the
president of Bangalore Korean Presbyterian Church Youth Group in
India, who is one of the early Korean settlers in Bangalore, India,
due to her father's executive responsibilities in the IT sector,
writes about the situation in India in terms of culture, economics,
and society. Jung-Im Jeong focuses on how she developed into a
leader desiring to help the people of India and also other people
in need around the world. Haebin Yoon writes from Senegal, Africa,
regarding her "immigration" to Africa with her missionary father,
who was sent by the Korean Presbyterian Church (Ko-Shin) in Korea.
She desires to follow in her father's footsteps as a missionary to
Africa. Paul Sungbae Park, who has received much acclaim as an
emerging young historian in his own right, has written an article
exploring the experience of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the
manner of vicarious participation, so emphasized by Professor
Robert N. Bellah of University of California at Berkeley, Paul
Sungbae Park has placed himself ina vicarious position of a member
of the corps of discovery of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Furthermore, Paul Sungbae Park examines similarities between the
Korean Joong-Mae System and the Shakespearean arranged marriage
system as found in ROMEO AND JULIET. Michael Chon, the first-born
son of a cutting-edge telecommunications company founder in New
Jersey, desires to expand his dad's company into a
multi-billion-dollar empire. He relates his prowess as a star
soccer player to his competitive spirit. As the president of his
whole school, Michael Chon explores his own competitive spirit as
both inherited and acquired. Joon Park, who is highly ranked in his
elite magnate school in New Jersey, recounts his summer trip to
South Korea and reminisces about his grandmother who wants him to
grow using Korean herbal medicine. Joon Park writes with humor and
figurative language that is rarely found in such a young person.
Timothy Chon, Andy Jung, and Jake Byun write autobiographically
about their experiences in Korea. Their testimonies serve as
first-hand primary source accounts not only of the description of
youth life in South Korea, but also of primary document preserving
Korean youth perspectives on events and issues. Gloria Bae, a star
student in her honors class, describes the bond that exists between
a Korean mother and a Korean daughter, focuses on Korean food
creation. The touching story will not only warm your heart, but it
will also give you an insight into Korean cuisine and the Korean
family.
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