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Mokpo, South Korea -- 1979. A pair of schoolgirls take in the view from the treacherous staircase that leads to the pavilions on Mount Yudal. The upper spur of the mountain is on the left; Mokpo is on the right. |
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A view of Mokpo from the upper heights of Mount Yudal. PAUL HARKIN lives here and works in the City Health Center. |
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A view of Mount Yudal from the neighborhood in which the Mokpo City Health Center is located. |
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The Mokpo City Health Center. |
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Traditional rooftops in a typical neighborhood of Mokpo. |
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An example of one of the newer-style houses in Mokpo. |
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The author sitting among the rooftops of an old residential part of Mokpo. |
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Chindo Island. This island, the home of HAN MI JIN, is a mostly agricultural area of terraced fields and rolling mountains. |
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Chindo Island. This is a stretch of coastline between Mokpo and Chindo. |
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Korean Leprosy Institute. The KLI is located near Seoul in St. Lazarus Village, a resettlement village for leprosy patients and their families. JOEL REYNOSO and later PAUL HARKIN live here. |
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Mokpo. The author with coworkers at the Mokpo City Health Center's Tuberculosis Control Office. |
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A hanbok, the extraordinarily elegant traditional costume of Korea. |
| The Assassination of President Pak Chong Hui -- October 26, 1979 | |
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Within a day after the assassination of President Pak, a shrine has been erected in his honor in front of the Capitol Building in downtown Seoul. (cf. Chapter 3) |
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A crowd of people listens nervously to the radio on the street near the baseball stadium in Seoul. |
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The Kwanghwa Mun intersection in downtown Seoul as seen from the men's bathroom in the Peace Corps office. |
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Mokpo. In the aftermath of the assassination, the Martial Law Command has inexplicably mounted a pair of machine guns on the roof of Mokpo's train station. (cf. Chapter 3) |
