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Set predominantly in North Korea, the novel The Day of the Tiger deals with the issues of democracy vs. totalitarianism, human rights and the capacity of a single individual to influence events on a national and world scale.Han, a South Korean taekwondo instructor travels to North Korea in search of his girlfriend, an outspoken human rights activist, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents. With the help of a European intelligence officer, he traces her whereabouts to a prison camp. When his attempts to rescue her are thwarted, Han finds himself caught in a struggle for his own survival, an experience which, along with the turmoil of life in a labor camp, takes him to unsuspected realms of human existence, revealed to him by a mysterious Shaman, and to the highest echelons of Pyongyang’s elite where he sets in motion events that would impact profoundly the Korean Peninsula.