David J. Marcou

Writer's Biography

David J. Marcou is a freelance journalist based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He graduated three U.S. universities, and lived and worked as a journalist in London and Seoul in the 1980s. He’s been published many times and in many places since 1980, including in ‘Business Korea,’ ‘Korean Culture,’ ‘Smithsonian’ Magazine, and the Milwaukee and La Crosse newspapers. His half-Korean son, Matthew, was born in 1987, and attends the UM-Minneapolis.

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Seoul, South Korea: My Two Korean Sojourns - Story by David J. Marcou
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In the summer of 1984, after graduating the Missouri Journalism School, I was invited to work as chief copy editor for Yonhap News Agency’s International Desk in Seoul. I arrived that August and spent nine months there during my first Korean sojourn. I’d been inspired to go to Korea by my Korean friends at Mizzou and by my contact with the great British photojournalist Bert Hardy in 1981, when I photographed him for the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mr. Hardy and writing-partner James Cameron had covered the Korean War brilliantly for Britain’s ‘Picture Post’ Magazine.

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