Shattered by the Wars / Inspiring Voices (ePub)

A native of Seoul, Korea, Hi-Dong Chai was educated in the United States. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. As an engineer he worked nineteen years with IBM and fifteen years as a professor of electrical engineering at San Jose State University. He was recognized as a leading authority of magnetic actuator design. He published extensively in the field of magnetic aspects of electromechanical devices including a book, Electromechanical Motion Devices, Prentice Hall. He is a holder/co-holder of forty inventions that were either published in the IBM Invention Disclo-sure Bulletin or filed for U.S. patents.



With all his professional accomplishments, he did not forget his life’s journey through Korea as the last son of a Christian minister. He did not forget his father in prison under Japan’s rule. He did not forget his fifteen-year-old brother volunteering to join the Japanese military in the hope of having his father released from the prison, and coming home after WWII and dying from his injury. He did not forget his father taken away by the communists during the Korean War, never to return. He did not forget his mother whose life had been shattered by the wars, but who led her last son with love and wisdom.



After retiring in 2002, he decided to spend his remaining years sharing his life stories with the world. My Truest Hope was published in the 2012 August issue of Guideposts magazine. My Truest Hope won the award for Writerstalk Challenge for Memoir by South Bay Branch of California Writers Club in February, 2013. Also Blossoms and Bayonets co-authored with Jana McBurney-Lin was e-published in October, 2012. Cindy and a Korean Boy, a short endearing love story that tells of Cindy’s caring for the lonely Korean boy and the fragility of life, was e-published in January 2013. In coming years he will work on Journey Through America, an autobiography describing his life in America since 1953.



More of his work can be

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