Letters From South Korea

Just picked up the book Letters From South Korea by T.K.* published in 1976, and my achievement thus far was reading the back of the book jacket.

Based on that little write-up, and even though I do not agree with the overall castigation of the Park Chung Hee regime, I found the following descriptions rather stirring.

"Here is recorded the anguish and joy, the desperation and the courage, the suffering, the martyrdom of T.K.'s people in their heroic and deeply moving struggle against the churning wheels of Park's police state machinery.

"One cannot fully appreciate the heavy chains on South Korea until one hears the cries from prisoners and their families which emanate from these pages. Equally important, though, is to appreciate the creativity, the constant daring, and occasional wit with which T.K. and his friends circumvent and subvert the otherwise suffocating blanket of authoritarianism. This book is the witness."

Sounds promising enough for me to read beyond the book jacket!

* A pseudonym