- My Forsaken Star
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My Forsaken Star Author(s) Annie Park (朴玉順) Original title 내별은어느하늘에: 白人混血兒洋公主의手記 Country South Korea Language Korean Publisher Seoul: Wangja Chulpansa (王子出版社) Publication date 1965 Pages 258 OCLC Number 44172162 My Forsaken Star Hangul 내별은 어느 하늘에: 白人 混血兒 洋公主의 手記 Hanja 내별은 어느 하늘에: 백인 혼혈아 양공주의 수기 Revised Romanization Nae byeol-eun oneu haneul-e: Baek-in Honhyeol-a Yanggongju-eui Sugi McCune–Reischauer Nae pyǒl-ǔn onǔ hanǔl-e: Paek-in Honhyǒl-a Yanggongju-ǔi Sugi Literally, "What sky will my star go to: Diary of a mixed-race prostitute" My Forsaken Star or My Star in What Sky are English names used to refer to the Korean-language autobiography of Annie Park.[1][2] The book's English subtitle was "Question Forever".[2]
Park, the Eurasian daughter of a South Korean prostitute and an American soldier stationed in South Korea, found out about her mother's occupation one night at age six by following her to work; as Park returned home that same night, she was lured into an alley and sexually assaulted by a stranger. Park herself began working as a prostitute at age 16. She and a ghostwriter authored and published her book in South Korea three years later. The book became a best-seller, and was serialised in newspapers at the time; a movie based on the book began filming in late November 1965.[1] The movie version was the debut performance of Yi Yeong-ok; Yi would go on to act in a number of other movies, such as the 1972 Janghwa Hongryeonjeon.[3]
There were also plans to create a South Korean television series based on My Forsaken Star, as well as a U.S. version of the book.[1][2] Kodansha published a Japanese translation by Naoki Matsumoto in 1966 under the title Waga Hoshiha Izukoni: Aoimeno Kankoku Joseino Shugi ("Where Will My Star Go: Diary of a Blue-Eyed Korean Girl").[4]
References
- ^ a b c "South Korea: Confucius' Outcasts", Time Magazine, 1965-12-10, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898399,00.html, retrieved 2009-12-02
- ^ a b c "Girl Tells Mixed-Blood Plight", Chicago Tribune: B4, 1965-12-06, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/582787952.html?dids=582787952:582787952&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+06%2C+1965&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Girl+Tells+Mixed-Blood+Plight, retrieved 2009-12-02
- ^ Bak, Hoe-seok (2007-06-12), "다시보는 선데이서울: 청춘영화의 대명사 이영옥/Seoul Sinmun Sunday Edition retrospective: Yi Yeong-ok, a name synonymous with teen movies", Seoul Sinmun, http://nownews.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20070612601002, retrieved 2009-12-05
- ^ 朴玉順 [Bak Ok-sun]; 松本直樹 [Matsumoto Naoki] (1966), 『わが星はいずこに : 青い目の韓国女性の手記』, 講談社 [Kodansha], NDL 66003811
External links
- Table of contents, from the database of the National Library of Korea
Categories:- 1965 books
- Prostitution in South Korea
- South Korean books
- Autobiographies
- Korea stubs
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