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Title: Ugly American Story
Review: I purchased this book hoping to get a good description of life as an English Teacher in Korea. What I got was a short novel describing 3 teachers going to Japan to get drunk.There were a few points where the narrator drops the analogies (most of which are stolen from bad westerns or dime store detective novels) and the constant references to Beetle's music, and starts to go into the history between Korea and Japan. Those few passages are well written and very informative.However, as a whole, this book is a good example of the kind of behavior from tourists (and expats) that perpetuates those Ugly American stories.
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