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...winds, many rocks (of the volcanic variety) and many widows (of fisherman husbands who perished in the choppy waters offshore). But folklore can only do so much, and now, 21st century Korea has a real-life legend that Jeju can be rightly proud of: its most famous native son, Yang Yong-eun, a.k.a. the Tiger Tamer...
...Yang, 37, better known as Y.E. Yang, stunned the sports world Sunday, Aug. 16, and did more for Asian golf over 18 holes than had ever been achieved before by beating odds-on favorite Tiger Woods in the final round of the USPGA championship. Yang's triumph means that the Asian world finally has a major winner, and he couldn't have done it under less enviable circumstances. The 110th-ranked player in the world was paired with Woods, who, lest we forget, had won all his 14 major championships - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and USPGA - when holding...
...Chinese-American cartoonist Gene Luen Yang depicted what it was like to grow up as part of an ethnic minority in the U.S. with such arresting candor that his American Born Chinese became the first graphic publication named as a finalist for the National Book Award. Loosely based on the author's own experiences, the book's three short stories touched on a gamut of themes, from language and acceptance to stereotyping and assimilation, and the frank, accessible manner in which they did so inspired translations of American Born Chinese in more than 10 languages...
...should come as no surprise that Yang's latest work, co-authored by Korean-American comic artist Derek Kirk Kim, revisits those dark places where feelings of self-doubt and shame linger. But rather than centering on ethnic identity this time, The Eternal Smile's trilogy straddles the line between reality and fantasy. In its opening story, "Duncan's Kingdom" (previously published in comic-book form in 1999), a knight embarks on a dangerous mission in order to win the hand of his beloved princess, but along the way gets distracted - in a send-up of the grail quest...
...Helen X. Yang ’12 is a Crimson news writer in Adams House...