I started teaching when I was a junior in college. I taught English at a night high school in Daegu not far from home. It was shortly after my three-year active service in the Korean War. Everybody was poor and found living difficult in the war-torn, devastated country.
The titles of the songs on the program for “Hong Lanpa s Music Festival: 100 Years of Korean Gagok” on Dec. 27 have a beguiling plainness, recalling natural scenes and sentiments about them that nearly everyone living in Korea is familiar with: “Barley Field,” “Magnolia Flower,” “Rock Pass,” “A Moonlit Night,” “Inside a Flower-shaped Cloud,” “Snow,” “Southern Village” and “Spring of my Hometown.”
DVIDS - News - Faith and service: U S Army chaplain upholds century-long family legacy in U S , Korea dvidshub.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dvidshub.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.