By diverting his attention away from military battle, Junghyo re-establishes the human cost of war: in this context, the real price is demonstrated by Mansik’s accelerated adolescence and the compromised sexuality of the so-called “UN ladies”.īuy this book at the Guardian bookshop Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero (1929) The devastating impact of MacArthur’s assault is seen through the eyes of local teenager Mansik, whose mother joins the prostitutes after being raped. The soldiers establish an encampment named Texas Town, receiving local women who, as a consequence, are publicly shunned as “Yankee wives”. It is September 1950, and General MacArthur - known throughout war-struck Korea as “General Megado” - has just landed his troops at
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