Weds, Oct 2, 7:30pm – Author Choi Kyung-Shin will discuss her memoir: A Doll for a Day: Growing up in Post-War Korea. It is the story of a girl, born in the Year of the Ox, growing up in post-war Korea in the 1950s and 1960s and her unusual coming of age drama.
Kyung-Shin vividly recalls the first student anti-government demonstration in Taegu and the military revolution of the 5.16 Coup D’etat. What were this young Korean girl’s dreams? How did she learn to speak up? How did she support herself and stay in school? We meet the people who influenced her early life: teachers and family members. Like an ox, she worked hard to be useful and worthy to all around her and accomplish her lifetime goal of being educated.
Choi Kyung-Shin is an author and Fulbright Scholar who has been a teacher, an educator and writer. She lives in Framingham.