Therese Park is a Korean author, now living in the US. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the US to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic[1] (now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full-time.
A Gift of the Emperor (1997), her first novel, concerns a Korean schoolgirl, Soon-Ah, who is forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II.[2][3][4]
Park's second novel When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War was published in 2004 (ISBN0-595-30876-7). This story is based on what Park witnessed during the Korean war (1950–1953) as a child.
Her columns and articles have been published since 1984 in such publications as The Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Best times, and Our Family (Canada), The Graybeard, the National Korean War Veterans Magazine in Washington D.C., The Beat Magazine and Korea Bridge South Korea.
She graduated Seoul National University-School of music in 1963 with a Bachelor of Music degree and Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with a Master of Cello Performance degree. (She studied with legendary Andre′ Navarra)
In 2006, she wrote "Midwest Voices" columns for The Kansas City Star-Opinion Page, and since January 2009, she has been writing columns for the Star-Johnson County Neighborhood News.
^Journal of Asian American Studies, volumes 5-6, page 29-30
External linksEdit
Therese Park's official website
August 27, 2023
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