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Therese Park is a Korean author, now living in the USA. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the USA to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic (now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full time.

A Gift of the Emperor (1997), her first novel, concerns a Korean schoolgirl, Soon-Ah, who is forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II.

Therese Park's second novel When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War was published in 2004. This story is based on what Park witnessed during the Korean war (1950—1953) as a child.

Her essays and articles have been published in such publications as The Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Best times, and Our Family (Canada), The Beat Magazine and Korea Bridge (South Korea) and others.

She holds a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University School of Music and Master of Cello Performance from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, France.

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