<div dir="ltr">Thank you all, very helpful!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Marion Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marion.eggert@rub.de" target="_blank">marion.eggert@rub.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Aidan,<br>
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The novel you have in mind must be The Square (Kwangjang) by Ch'oe
Inhun. The protagonist, originally an inhabitant of the South who
went north before the war and ended up as North Korean POW, is on a
ship to India at the beginning of the novel, but he never arrives
there, chosing death in the ocean instead. <br>
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Regards,<br>
Marion<br>
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<div>Am 24.07.2014 08:32, schrieb
<a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>:<br>
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<div><font size="4">Dear all,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Paul Yoon is not the first writer to make
fiction of this particular</font></div>
<div><font size="4">tragic twist in the Korean War tale: those
POWs who chose to</font></div>
<div><font size="4">emigrate rather than live in either half of
their divided country.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">20 years ago or more, a Korean novel
explored the same terrain,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">somewhat allegorically. There,
the protagonist ended up in India.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">This book was translated into English. I
bought and read it, but I </font></div>
<div><font size="4">can't now find it; nor alas do I recall
either the author or the title.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">I'm sure Brother Anthony and many others can
supply those.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Just call me</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Amnesiac in Angleterre</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black"><font size="3">Aidan Foster-Carter<u></u><u></u></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black"><font size="3">Honorary Senior Research Fellow in
Sociology & Modern <u></u>Korea<u></u>, <u></u><u></u>Leeds University<u></u>,
<u></u>UK<u></u><u></u></font></span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div>In a message dated 24/07/2014 03:14:10 GMT Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:ansonjae@sogang.ac.kr" target="_blank">ansonjae@sogang.ac.kr</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial">The fate
of (North Korean or Chinese) prisoners of war (many in the
camp in Geoje-do) was one of the main issues that kept the
armistice negociations stalled for 2 years, with the
particular question of what to do about those who did not
wish to be repatriated _or_ integrated into South Korea .
Finally the UN set up the Neutral Nations Supervisory
Commission in Korea, their freedom of choice was repected
and they were given the option of going to live in a third
nation. The term "neutral nations" was defined as those
nations whose combat forces did not participate in the
hostilities in Korea. The United Nations Command chose
Switzerland and Sweden, while the Korean People's Army and
Chinese People's Volunteers chose Czechoslovakia and Poland.<br>
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Korean prisoners of war wishing to live in a third country
were shipped by the United Nations to India, Brazil, and
Argentina in the year leading up to the 1954 Geneva
Conference on Korea and Indochina.<br>
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A news movie of North Korean moving to Brazil can be seen at
<a href="http://www.britishpathe.com/video/korean-ex-pows-move-to-brazil" target="_blank">http://www.britishpathe.com/video/korean-ex-pows-move-to-brazil</a>
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Brother Anthony<br>
President, RASKB etc<br>
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<div>In a message dated 24/07/2014 01:34:58 GMT Daylight
Time, <a href="mailto:john.eperjesi@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.eperjesi@gmail.com</a> writes:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif">In Korean American
writer Paul Yoon's new Korean War novel "Snow
Hunters," a North Korean soldier spends two years
in POW camp "near the southern coast" of South
Korea, "near an airbase."</span>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif">After the war, rather than be
repatriated, he is given the chance to move to
Brazil, which he does.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif">Can anyone help with materials
than can develop the historical context for the
POW camp and/or North Korean migration to Brazil
after the war?</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif">Much thanks in advance,</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:13px;FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif">John</div>
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Prof. Dr. Marion Eggert
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Sprache und Kultur Koreas
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D-44780 Bochum</pre>
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