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| Ty Pak | |
| Hangul | 박태영 |
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| Revised Romanization | Bak Taeyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak T'aeyǒng |
Ty Pak (born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature. [1] [2]
Born in Korea shortly before World War II,Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule,Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945,its division during subsequent U.S. and Soviet occupation,and the trauma of the Korean War in his early childhood and adolescent years,receiving his law degree from Seoul National University in 1961. In 1957 he started working as a reporter for The Stars and Stripes, and in 1958 for the Korean English dailies The Korean Republic and The Korea Times,until 1965 when he emigrated to the United States.
After earning his Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University,Ohio,in 1969 he taught in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi from 1970 to 1987. His first collection of short stories,Guilt Payment (1983),has been used as a textbook at many US colleges.[ citation needed ] His other books include Moonbay (1999),in the UCLA English syllabus,Cry Korea Cry (1999),A Korean Decameron (1961,reissued 2019),Dear Daughter:On the Eve of Her Wedding (2018),The Polyglot:Union of Korea and Japan (2018),serialized in English and Korean by the Korean New York Ilbo Daily from Jun 1,2019 through Jun 5,2021,The SEE Creed:Sex Equality and Emancipation (2021),which champions the matronymic surnaming of children to alternate with the patronymic,The Global Federalist Manifesto (2021),a pamphlet urging all sovereign states to surrender their sovereignty,a toxic relic,to the United States of the World,and Lucy Wong,the Guardian Angel for the USW:United States of the World (2022),a novella where Lucy Wong turns out to be Xi Jinping's daughter.
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