In the Media

Passage to Pusan has received extensive media coverage with stories being published on multiple platforms around Australia and South Korea.

Here’s a sample of some of the many stories, book extracts, reviews, broadcasts and podcasts:

Book, Documentary and Exhibition News:

• Passage to Pusan hero Vince Healy is etched onto the Sandgate Cenotaph, 68 years after he died in the Korean War
• A Mother’s Courage is published in the Queensland RSL Magazine
• To mark 70th Anniversary of the Korean War, ABC Radio interviews Louise Evans about the conflict & Passage To Pusan
• Author Louise Evans speaks at 65th anniversary of peace on Korean peninsula in Seoul
• ABC Radio 702 Drive Interview with Chris Bath
• Video interview with ABC’s Tracey Holmes
• ABC Radio Nightlife interview with Philip Clark
• Passage to Pusan inspires an Exhibition
• Exhibition Opening Night
• Arirang TV News
• SBS TV
• Korea’s national agency Yonhap
• Passage to Pusan goes on sale at Abbey’s Bookstore Sydney

Book Extracts:

• Edited extract about The Battle of Long Tan: Published in the Courier Mail
• Edited extract about the unique relationship between bereaved Australian mother Thelma Healy and Korean War widow Mrs Kim Cheung Keun. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age: Two mothers united across 15,000km from Korea to Australia
• Edited extract about the relationship between Carmel Healy and the Ether Man serial rapist.  Published in The Courier Mail: Rapist Philip Lamont unleashes a reign of terror on Brisbane women and in The Herald Sun.

Anzac Day stories:

• The Sydney Morning Herald: Brisbane mothers decade long quest to find son’s war grave
• The Daily Telegraph: Passage to Pusan – the impact of war on family left behind
• SBS: Heartbroken war – Mum’s journey to peace