What Melancholy Used to Be: A Foreigner's Story of South Korea
Thomas Courtney
It's 1997 and South Korean “LIKE” English Academy is looking for college grads to fill their growing ranks. Enter Thomas, who has never left the US and is stuck in a dead-end job in San Diego. Wearing surf trunks and a Hawaiian shirt, he arrives in Seoul in the dead of a Korean winter to discover he knows nothing of Korea and little about himself.
Far more than a travel memoir, Thomas’ journey of friendship, love, and nostalgia will leave readers in stitches, and in tears. It’s a deeply moving tale of why we travel, but also why we come home.
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