He Made a Difference

By Alyce Park Breshears

To know H.K. Park, you must understand that he lived and fought for the cause that consumed his entire being. When he and his bride were forced to flee Korea in 1921, he was determined to see his beloved homeland freed of its brutal Japanese occupation. Even as he built a good life for his family in American, he worked continually to ensure that Sygman Rhee, another exile, would lead Korea.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fideli Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 20, 2010
• ISBN: 9781604143102

Alyce Park Breshears

Alyce Park Breshears, the daughter of H.K. Park, is a lifelong resident of California, where she and her husband, Robert, are parents to Mychael, Todd, Nycole, and Nathan. Retired, she enjoys reading, writing, and studying the past.

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He Made a Difference

By Alyce Park Breshears

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PROLOGUE:

To know H.K. Park, you must understand he lived, fought, and escaped during the years of being under occupied forces in Korea.

Some men never know what it is to live for a purpose or a final goal of completion. He believed with all his heart that Sygman Rhee was the man to lead Korea out of being occupied by Japan. This drove him to finish the job of making sure Rhee became that person to lead the country into democracy. H.K.'s family came second. The small steps, the nature of the cause were, the forces that kept him going.

We are what we are, and a part of our past is within each of us. History shows us our mistakes that need to be corrected, and also the good that was to be improved to be better.

For H.K., he lived for a time he would know Korea was free.

He made a difference.

This man was my father.

By Alyce Park Breshears

CHAPTER 1

1921 H.K. PARK, AGE 36

The beginning of a new life. That's the way he looked at it. The end of an old life that was getting dangerously close and the edge he had of escaping the enemy of occupied forces was becoming too risky.

If he was to continue to be of service to Rhee he had to get out of the country. In the past, he has been Rhee's bodyguard and valet. Now Rhee was in the U.S.

H.K. had to make a new life, start a family and hope for the best America offered him. He thought this very optimistic because he had to.

This man spoke three languages fluently: Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. He had been in and out of China, Japan and Korea. He was lucky. At 36 he was still alive. And better yet, no price had been