George Ogle, Dorothy Ogle Our Lives in Korea and Korea in Our Lives

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Because he prayed in public for eight men who were tortured, forcedto make false confessions and were sentenced to death by SouthKorea's military dictatorship, in 1974 George Ogle was deported fromthe country where he had worked as a missionary for 20 years. Twomonths later when Dorothy and the four Ogle children left Korea,friends and colleagues commissioned them to "Go tell our story."After the South Korean people ended the military dictatorship in1987, the story changed from the struggle for democracy and humanrights to a story of the Korean movement for peace and reunifi cationof their divided nation. Compelling and comprehensive, Our Livesin Korea and Korea in Our Lives is not onlythe Ogles' personal memoirs of living inSouth Korea from 1954-1974 and latervisiting both the North and South, it is aneffort to tell the story of the Korean peopleas the authors experienced it directly, and asit has come to them by closely following theevolving history through almost 60 years. The book highlights the hope and promise of President Kim DaeJung's"Sunshine Policy" of constructive engagement with North Korea andis written to give readers around the world a vision for ending theKorean War to bring peace, prosperity and reconciliation to all of theKorean people.