“Slow Bullet” (슬로우 불릿) by Lee Dae-hwan (이대환): Korea in the Vietnam War and the price of chemical warfare..
Slow Bullet by Lee Dae-hwan is a deeply affecting family story of a Korean veteran of the US-Vietnam war, and the price he and his family pays for it. This is a little known part of Korean history (it has also been dealt with in Hwang Sok-Yong’s The Shadow of Arms, although this work looks…