My work basically consists of compiling useless information for the sake of binational amity. Then I have to compose in English the plans for the baseball game between the two countries to celebrate the American Independence Day. First, I have to notify the Korean public security bureau that the US military will be participating in the Arbor Day events. These are simple, not very important matters that can be handled by my English skills. I see new documents I’ll have to translate into English and into Korean. She moves like a mermaid taking her precarious first steps. I can’t discount the possibility that I work at the military base solely for the free coffee. I first put water in the coffeepot-the cup of coffee I have first thing when I get in is my breakfast. My black Underwood typewriter waits primly on my desk. This place is unimaginably peaceful, so different from the outside world. Warmth rolls over me as soon as I open the office door. Snow remaining on the rounded tin roof sparkles white under the clear morning sun. I shove past the shoeshine boys who tease me, thinking I’m a working girl who services foreigners, and hurry into the base. The abject hunger in their bright eyes makes my gut clench. I avoid the eyes of the begging orphans wearing discarded military uniforms they’ve shortened themselves. Women are doing laundry for the base in oil drums cut in half, swallowing hot steam as though they are working in hell. White steam plumes up beyond the squelching muddy road. The road to the US military base isn’t one for a peaceful, leisurely stroll. I get off the streetcar and walk briskly. I don’t belong in this city, where the cease-fire was declared not so long ago, but at the same time I might be the most appropriate person for this place. I look like a doll discarded by a bored foreign girl. My prematurely gray hair is dyed with beer and under a purple dotted scarf, I’m wearing a black wool coat and scuffed dark blue velvet shoes, and my lace gloves are as unapproachable as a widow’s black veil at a funeral. I’ve been testing that theory for the last few years, although my doubts are mounting.Īs always, the passengers in the streetcar glance at me, unsettled. Those who endure have a chance at beauty. “Enduring” would be a more apt description. I can’t possibly look pretty, caked as I am in makeup and shivering in the cold. I walk down the early-morning streets as the vicious February wind whips my calves. I put on my stockings, my dress, and my fingerless black lace gloves. I used a liberal amount of Coty powder on my face to scare the darkness away. I looked worn out but tenacious, like a stocking hanging from my vanity. I knew I was under an old cotton blanket, but I tussled with it as if it were a man or a coffin lid or heavy mounds of dirt, trusting that night would eventually end and death couldn’t be this awful. I fought them like a girl safeguarding her purity, but it was no use. Once again, I spent all last night grappling with horrible memories-memories of death. Hardly anyone in Seoul is happy during the morning commute, but I’m certain I’m one of the most miserable. The Starlet and the Spy is a work of historical fiction, based on true events, about the remarkable yet unlikely meeting of two women: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour. Ji-min Lee is a screenwriter in Korea and the author of several novels. The following is excerpted from Ji-min Lee's novel, The Starlet and the Spy translated by Chi-Young Kim.
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