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The Missing Dragon (Student Ambassador #1) by Axur Eneas, Ryan Estrada
4.0
How I read this: Free ebook copy received through Edelweiss
Student Ambassador – The Missing Dragon was a lovely graphic novel. The story has such a wonderful message –that if we all tried to be ambassadors to everyone we meet – tried to represent our country, our workplace, even our family to them, and tried our hardest at it, the world would be a better place.
There is a lot of stuff about South Korea here and there’s even some stuff on how you learn to read Korean, which may get the reader interested in learning it! In fact, the story is very, very loosely based on the two separated Koreas – and how it would be nice if they joined again.
The student ambassador meets a very selfish boy-king of an imaginary country, which incidentally also happens to be broken into two countries of the same ethnic origins, just like North and South Korea, and is quite close to them. But the comic isn’t political – it’s more about being selfish and learning to be better about it. It doesn’t poke you in the fact with moral righteousness, though – it’s just naturally presented through how the two kids interact, one of them being nice and getting his way through kindness or just cunning, and the other always taking what isn’t his and being incredibly entitled, because he is a king, after all.
The comic is also fun to read because it’s got a good, dynamic pace and the illustrations are really cool too. So I enjoyed reading this.
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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Student Ambassador – The Missing Dragon was a lovely graphic novel. The story has such a wonderful message –that if we all tried to be ambassadors to everyone we meet – tried to represent our country, our workplace, even our family to them, and tried our hardest at it, the world would be a better place.
There is a lot of stuff about South Korea here and there’s even some stuff on how you learn to read Korean, which may get the reader interested in learning it! In fact, the story is very, very loosely based on the two separated Koreas – and how it would be nice if they joined again.
The student ambassador meets a very selfish boy-king of an imaginary country, which incidentally also happens to be broken into two countries of the same ethnic origins, just like North and South Korea, and is quite close to them. But the comic isn’t political – it’s more about being selfish and learning to be better about it. It doesn’t poke you in the fact with moral righteousness, though – it’s just naturally presented through how the two kids interact, one of them being nice and getting his way through kindness or just cunning, and the other always taking what isn’t his and being incredibly entitled, because he is a king, after all.
The comic is also fun to read because it’s got a good, dynamic pace and the illustrations are really cool too. So I enjoyed reading this.
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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