... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... ... or a broom. A few minutes later, two boys came into the terminal. One had a basketball in his hands. The other one stood a few feet behind him. He lo... ...ng Hashimnika, Sonsaeng nim," (Peace you do, teacher), said the one with the basketball. "Uri-tul nun taxi ul sayang hata?" (We taxi to use?) He knew ... ...) a fellow hunter at the theatre had drawn for him on the back cover of his "Expatriate In Korea" resource book one time when he was at the theater. O...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...