korea

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.

North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950 and by August 1 the entire South had fallen except for the city of Pusan. As the enemy prepared to finish what they had started, the famous Wolfhounds of the 27th Regimental Combat Team, shored up the American defenses, held their ground, and turned the tide of the war.