Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons, (Paperback)

from justine28

"Brother One Cell" is a story of a 20-something American guy travelling to South Korea in early 1990s in order to teach English. He then ends up caught trafficking drugs into Seoul from the Philippines and is sent to prison for 3,5 years. It is basically a story of the hardship of confinement, es...

from matthew254

Brother One Cell is more foreigner-in-Korea depravity, albeit in a lower form. Instead of outright murder, it's just smuggling two kilos of hashish into the country from the Philippines. No biggie. Of course, it doesn't help Thomas' story that he is, by all available accounts, a certifiable douch...

from fnrlr1

Cullen Thomas was an aimless young man seeking adventure when he came to South Korea to teach English. In the 1990s, Seoul seemed to be a wide open city where anything--legal or illegal--was possible if you had enough gumption. Thomas's little foray into drug smuggling, however, got him not money...