The Ma Rok Biographies by Giwon SeoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
3 short stories, all featuring a person named Ma (3 different stories, 3 different people, seemingly unrelated to each other).
The first story was about a person who was among the last to escape the North Koreans in Seoul, by swimming across the Han river in broad daylight, and his subsequent career in the army.
The second story was about the descendant of a "conscientious official", and the issues between maintaining his family "honor" (against his father's wishes), or groveling to officials for a job.
The third story was my favorite. This concerned a man operating for the Japanese, during a time when everyone was "officially" operating for the Japanese in Korea, and how he ultimately helps an official handle his "subversive" son.
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