An affair with Korea
Subtitle: memories of South Korea in the 1960s
By: Vincent S.R. Brandt
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780295993416
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Fishers; Villages; Anthropologists; Maritime anthropology; Americans; Fishing villages; Rural conditions; Biography; Case studies
Description: "In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brandt lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared. Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont"--
Notes: Center for Korean Studies publication

Includes bibliographical references.