By Peter Hyun
In 1924 seventeen-year-old Peter Hyun arrived in Hawaii with 3 more youthful siblings, abandoning friends and family in Japanese-occupied Seoul and the Korean neighborhood of exiles in Shanghai. The early chapters of this lively autobiographical account, the sequel to guy Sei!, recount Hyun's existence as a tender Korean coming of age in Hawaii and as a faculty pupil learning philosophy and theatre arts in Indiana. After collage, Hyun moved to long island and in 1930 begun operating as an assistant degree supervisor with Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. He later went directly to direct theatre businesses in big apple, Massachusetts, California, and Montreal. As Hyun used to be one in all just a handful of minorities operating within the avant garde theatre within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, his account contributes to our figuring out of where of Asians in artwork open air the mainstream. He additionally presents a private viewpoint on key sessions in American race kin, fairly in the course of international battle II and the Korean conflict. within the New international celebrates a wealthy existence packed with variety. all through his existence, Hyun believed that the making of a Korean American was once basically a cultural marriage - a wedding frequently requiring a long and tough engagement to prevail. within the New international is the tale of Hyun's engagement, with all its triumphs and misfortunes, advised with candor and wit. Peter Hyun died in 1993 on the age of eighty-seven.
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My Korean-English, Chinese-English, and Japanese-English dictionaries were showing the effects of overwork. But I enjoyed the new associations, the endless jokes outside the classrooms, but most of all, being accepted as one of them. To my dismay, my progress presented a new problem. Just when I thought I was speaking correct English, I would be ridiculed for doing just that outside the classroom. Correct English was for the classroom only; once outside, everyone spoke Hawaiian pidgin. ” they would burst into laughter and put me in my place by saying, “Watsa matta you!
When the football season began, to my great surprise I was placed on the varsity team as a right tackle. With all the pads, the uniform, and the heavy cleated shoes, I weighed 140 pounds, still the lightest man on the team. To survive, I used all my Korean fighting techniques—use of my legs and feet to trip and knock down the opponent. So the coach kept me as a guard and called the play on my side quite frequently. Then came a game against a team from Koloa. At the first lineup, I faced my opponent, a two hundred-pound Hawaiian left tackle.
Across an open space over which an old monkeypod tree spread its branches stood the other house, the home of a Japanese Buddhist priest and his temple. The main road linking the north and south sides of the island ran through this valley, but because of the steep and curving road, traffic moved slowly. On the side of this road were two stores: one an old rickety house turned into a sad little grocery store run by a Japanese family, and the other a new building put up by a Portuguese family named Fernandez.