Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War

by Grace M. Cho

Book Overview

An engrossing encounter with lingering ghosts of the Korean War

Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816652759
• ISBN13: 9780816652754
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"