[KS] The young Kim Song-hwan's war sketches from 1950; Andrew Salmon's new book

[Afostercarter at aol.com]

Dear friends and colleagues,
 
On this sombre anniversary, the below from Andrew  Salmon
in Seoul may be of interest.
 
His JoongAng Ilbo article can be read at 
_http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2906541_ 
(http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2906541) 
 
But I can't in fact find Kim Song-hwan's sketches  there,
so the full gallery on Andrew's website is all the more  valuable:
 
_http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/watercolourist-at-war/_ 
(http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/watercolourist-at-war/) 

The website also gives full details of Andrew's new book,
published by Aurum Press in April.
 
Best wishes
Aidan
 
 
Aidan Foster-Carter 
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology  & Modern Korea, Leeds 
University  
Flat 1, 40 Magdalen Road, Exeter, EX2 4TE,  UK 
T:  (+44, no 0)    07970  741307 (mobile);   01392 257753   (home) 
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Did a piece today for Joongang on the work of Kim Sung-hwan (pen name:  
"Gobau") who is Korea's most famed living cartoonist, who got his start as  a 
war artist in the Korean War. The Joongang could only include 6 of his  
pieces on the page, but Gobau has given me permission to post 25 of his 1950  
watercolour sketches. 
 
Being a civilian in the Seoul area, he got a close up look at both the  
Norks, and the Yanks. Gobau's work is the finest visual representation of that  
tumultuous summer that I know of. Click here for the image gallery (with 
quotes  by Gobau and commentary by yours truly):
_http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/watercolourist-at-war/_ 
(http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/watercolourist-at-war/) 

Andrew Salmon 
Seoul 
Tel: ++82-11-792-6315 
_http://tothelastround.wordpress.com_ 
(http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/)  

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