binding good. light cover rub marks and scratches. minor edge wear. dustjacket rub marks, scratches,  dents, and minor edge wear.

2005 Geulnurim Publishing Co. hardcover. 165 pages. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4".

My Battle for Seoul, Summer, 1950 impressed people with its honest narration about the scary and sad experience of the Korean War. It was astonishing work for the writer, Ms. Ockhee Cheong as well as in the history of essay literature. As of reading it, it's inevitable to think upon the deep scar from the war and the wandering destiny of human kind. The war started 60 years ago, and everyone is mostly forgetting the harsh anxiety, suffering, poverty, and starvation. Within this situation, the existence of a distinguishing voice with awakening memory is such a fortune. If one nation cannot obtain a lesson from its past, it does not own a future. A person who dreams about a beautiful future should put his or her feet on the road from the past to the present and that's the only way to make his or her dream whole and steady. The book keeps the war experience and record as realistic as possible, and carries a special talent of forming that experience as literature. It makes a big different to choose a right bowl and a cover for the same subject matter. Ms. Ockhee Cheong's writing is shining for this kind. The love for human beings over desperate reality, and the passion for warm recovery leads the work to an excellent example of human triumph as well as human life declaration.  - Kim Jong-Hoi