Ahn Junghyo (1941–2023) published two novels based on his war experiences. The first is White Badge, a novel about the Vietnam War, which was published first in Korean in 1983 under the title Of War and the Metropolis and then in English, in 1989. While White Badge relates the author’s participation in the Vietnam War as a South Korean soldier, while he was in his mid-twenties, Silver Stallion contains the author’s experience of the Korean War, which broke out during Ahn’s second year of elementary school. Ahn first started writing Silver Stallion – the first draft was written in English – during his stay at his college friend’s grandfather’s house in the summer of 1964. The grandfather, Master Hwang, on whom the author modelled one of his main characters, was the chief of Kumsan village in the mountainous Kangwon Province. In Silver Stallion, it is Kumsan village that is used as the background of the story. Although he finished writing the English manuscript in November 1964, Ahn had difficulty in finding a suitable publisher. In the end, Ahn published the Korean translation of Silver Stallion under the title Galssam (The Autumn War) in 1986; the English version, with the title Silver Stallion, came out in 1990 (Ahn 2012: 11–16).