Especially recommended for the traveler and student, the Concise English-Korean Dictionary offers the most commonly spoken English words and phrases and their Korean equivalents. About the authorBorn and raised in Korea, where she has lived a total of almost twenty years, Joan V. Underwood attended school in England. She married Horace Underwood, younger brother of a well-knwon misionary family, and went to Korea as a missionary from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York. She studied Korean from private tutors and at missionary language schools in Korea and Japan, and later taught at Chosun Christian University