Therese Park
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Therese Park is a Korea
n author, now living in the USA. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the USA to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic
(now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full time.
A Gift of the Emperor (1997), her first novel, concerns a Korean schoolgirl, Soon-Ah, who is forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II.
Park's second novel When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War was published in 2004 (ISBN 0595308767). This story is based on what Park witnessed during the Korean war
(1950–1953) as a child.
Her essays and articles have been published in such publications as The Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Best times, and Our Family (Canada), The Beat Magazine and Korea Bridge (South Korea) and others.
She holds a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University School of Music
and Master of Cello Performance from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris
, France.
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n author, now living in the USA. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the USA to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic
Kansas City Symphony
The Kansas City Symphony is a United States symphony orchestra based in Kansas City, Missouri. The current music director is conductor Michael Stern. The current home of the Symphony is the Lyric Theatre, located in Downtown Kansas City on 11th Street between Wyandotte and Central Streets...
(now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full time.
A Gift of the Emperor (1997), her first novel, concerns a Korean schoolgirl, Soon-Ah, who is forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II.
Park's second novel When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War was published in 2004 (ISBN 0595308767). This story is based on what Park witnessed during the Korean war
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
(1950–1953) as a child.
Her essays and articles have been published in such publications as The Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Best times, and Our Family (Canada), The Beat Magazine and Korea Bridge (South Korea) and others.
She holds a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University School of Music
Seoul National University
Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...
and Master of Cello Performance from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris
École Normale de Musique de Paris
The École Normale de Musique de Paris is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, France. The school was founded by Auguste Mangeot and pianist Alfred Cortot in 1919...
, France.
Works
- A Gift of the Emperor (1997) ISBN 0595350054
- When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War (2004) ISBN 0595308767