<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Mike:<div><br></div><div>There’s a lot you can use in this course. Have you looked at Ha Jin’s War Trash? It’s a novel, not a short story, but is a powerful fictional account of what it was like to be a Chinese POW during the Korean War. For the Vietnam War, another novel you might find useful is Hwang Suk-Young’s The Shadow of Arms. You could also have them read Ahn Junghyo’s White Badge on Koreans in the Vietnam War. And, for short stories, look at Bruce Fulton’s translations in The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea. There are also the short stories of Hwang Sun won, Mountains (in Fulton’s anthology Land of Exile) and Cranes, in Modern Korean Fiction: an Anthology. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Don</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Robinson, Michael E. <<a href="mailto:robime@indiana.edu">robime@indiana.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’m teaching a course in the spring term on “The Cross Cultural Experiences of War” which deals with US wars in Asia….WW II, Korean War, and Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’m using fiction in part to get students to think about how these wars have affected our attitudes and relations with East Asia. I am using Heinz Insu Fenkl’s wonderful “Memories of My Ghost Bother” to cover Korean War aftermaths…..but I was wondering if there is some new translation collections from Korean of short stories centered around the War that I might use as well.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Happy Holidays,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Mike Robinson</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>