Mr. Mangjul

"Mangjul Ilrang has one of the rarest surnames in South Korea, one that might even be considered hazardous in this country, where anti-Japanese sentiment still runs deep," begins Choe Sang-hun's very interesting article on "one man’s struggle to salvage an identity amid the turmoil that engulfed the two nations for much of the last century" — In One Surname, the Turmoil of Two Nations.

[link via ROK Drop]