is planned in a few weeks the important release of "Bridge of No Gun Ri," the graphic novel of the Korean Park Ung-kon.
A volume of over six hundred pages that covers a black page and forgotten the Korean War: the massacre at No Gun Ri.
July 26, 1950, between six and seven in the morning, having lost the city of Yongdong, the twenty-fifth of American infantry unit, in pitiful condition, he decides to retire at 160km southeast of Seoul, near the village of No Gun Ri. The mission: protect the area, at least three days, around a railway bridge. Under the bridge in question, several hundreds of civilians had taken refuge before resuming the desperate flight.
It then triggers a hell of fire for more than sixty hours a storm of bullets kills more than 400 people.
The case, passed over in silence by the governments (American and Korean), reopens in September 1999 with an investigation of 'Associated Press that collects various testimonies and some Stock military "found."
The author, Kon-Ung Park, born in Seoul in 1972 and the rookie star of the new generation of Korean authors, their work overlooks the recent history of Korea and scars that marked his country. The style, simple and CommEvent, feel the suffering of the people lost in the atrocity. The design and narrative reflect the view of the poor, leaving room for detail and showing the reader the hopelessness of the situation. The tragedy of No Gun Ri was and remains a historical tragedy that reveals the atrocities committed by the U.S. Army. It is a work of truth and memory. "The Bridge of No Gun Ri" is a graphic novel that is the war in all its absurdity and madness.
some more info here and here (English) .
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