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Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella" of Japanese colonial rule. Existing descriptions of the colonial period tend to focus on imperial repression and national resistance, Japanese subjugation and Korean suffering, Korean backwardness and Japanese progress. "Most people," Kang says, "have read or heard only the horror stories which, although true, tell only a small segment of colonial life."The varied accounts in Under the Black Umbrella reveal a truth that is both more ambiguous and more human—the small-scale, mundane realities of life in colonial Korea. Accessible and attractive narratives, linked by brief historical overviews, provide a large and fully textured view of Korea under Japanese rule. Looking past racial hatred and repression, Kang reveals small acts of resistance carried out by Koreans, as well as gestures of fairness by Japanese colonizers. Impressive for the history it recovers and preserves, Under the Black Umbrella is a candid, human account of a complicated time in a contested place.
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First published January 1, 2001
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May 7, 2012
This is exactly what you want this type of book to be. Surprising, eye-opening, reliable, well-edited and jaw-dropping. If you are the least bit curious as to why your Korean grandmother hates all things Japanese, pick this book up. If you are in the pursuit of scholarly research and you need some oral history recollections, these are gold. The author has done extremely well in translating, arranging, presenting and setting historical context for each chapter.
Some stories are just a paragraph long while others go one for pages. Despite the sample being taken from elderly Koreans living in the American west coast, the people interviewed are amazing diverse and well-represented. The stories are captivating, earnest and beautifully told. I can't imagine how the stories must have sounded in the original language because the English translation is simply breathtaking.
The reader may find it unusual to hear that many Koreans became civilized or even friends with Japanese living in their towns during this period. The honesty of the interviewees runs counter to the widespread belief that all Japanese were zealous conquerors bent on world domination. Don't misunderstand, some of the stories indeed paint a terrible picture in terms of cultural repression, but as mentioned before, the book is well-balanced.
My only disappointment was the short length of the book. That's it. It's readable by anyone with a passing interest in Japanese colonial history. It's what you want - a collection of stories that completes any academic background you might have read.
Simply a gem.
Some stories are just a paragraph long while others go one for pages. Despite the sample being taken from elderly Koreans living in the American west coast, the people interviewed are amazing diverse and well-represented. The stories are captivating, earnest and beautifully told. I can't imagine how the stories must have sounded in the original language because the English translation is simply breathtaking.
The reader may find it unusual to hear that many Koreans became civilized or even friends with Japanese living in their towns during this period. The honesty of the interviewees runs counter to the widespread belief that all Japanese were zealous conquerors bent on world domination. Don't misunderstand, some of the stories indeed paint a terrible picture in terms of cultural repression, but as mentioned before, the book is well-balanced.
My only disappointment was the short length of the book. That's it. It's readable by anyone with a passing interest in Japanese colonial history. It's what you want - a collection of stories that completes any academic background you might have read.
Simply a gem.
January 7, 2017
A series of reminiscences in the 1980s and 90s by elderly Koreans (mostly in the S.F. Bay area) who lived under the Japanese occupation from 1910-1945, the end of World War II. For those unfamiliar with modern Korean history, it tells of the harshness of Japanese rule and how their policies were aimed at obliterating Korean identity by absorbing Koreans into Japanese culture - forbidding their language, taking over the public schools, enforcing public attendance at Shinto religious shrines, and finally pushing Koreans to take Japanese names by withholding employment, ration cards, and other forms of coercion. It shows clearly the variety of experience - from torture and various forms of oppression to near-normal life in remote areas and small villages. It also shows how humanity is never extinguished, and that compassion survives in the oppressors as well as the oppressed. The most affecting part for me was reading of the kindness and friendships that passed between Koreans and Japanese despite the brutality of the Japanese occupation.
October 3, 2013
I really enjoyed the Under the Black Umbrella. Being a compilation of interviews made it very effective. Personal stories are always more interesting and emotional than just a book describing the facts as a secondary source. I also liked it because the book wasn’t set up to prove a point but just to show what life was like. Everyone’s experiences were different: some good and some bad. Everyone was in different points in their life: some were poor some were rich, some were farmers some were in government. Some people were involved while others were left alone. It just makes the whole book seem more honest and true.
November 17, 2015
It's quite true when people say those studying history are studying humankind's ability to inflict pain. To read this book was a test of emotional endurance but I welcomed the rest. It is better to be fully knowledge than to remain ignorant and not respect the pain these people had to go through.
Most of the interviewees were spared from torture and discrimination but a few individuals truly had the most horrific stories to tell. It just goes to show how broad history is in the perspectives of the same people who were oppressed.
Most of the interviewees were spared from torture and discrimination but a few individuals truly had the most horrific stories to tell. It just goes to show how broad history is in the perspectives of the same people who were oppressed.
August 17, 2021
This book is a collection of stories, sometimes short, of people who lived in Korea during the Japanese rule, from 1910 to 1945.
The author was motivated to collect these stories because of discussions with her father-in-law, who lived in that time, and whose recollections “shook loose [her] narrow view of colonial life and made [her] aware that often, under that shade case by the Japanese presence, some people, some of the time, led close to normal lives.”
With the help of her husband, she talked with approximately 50 individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990s. With the acknowledgement that this collection may not capture all the essence of all Korean experiences, it nonetheless provides individuals’ insights and lived experiences, across a diversity of economic classes, locations on the Korean peninsula, and professions, and is a useful resource to see how some people lived and survived.
The author partitions the book by the three major stages of Japanese occupation:
• Dark age of subjugation, when the military ruled by treat and violence (1910-1919)
• Time of cultural accommodation (1920-1931), after the Korean Independence Movement in March 1919, the Japanese allowed some freedoms in schools, newspapers, and businesses
• Years of assimilation (1931-1945) with a renewed tightening of controls and forced participation in the Japanese war effort.
Even before the occupation, change was coming to Korea via the Donghak peasant revolt and Gabu Reforms of 1894-95. The Japanese occupation sent many men to Manchuria to form armed resistance to the Japanese. Several intellectuals, motivated by US President Woodrow Wilson’s principle of self-determination, wrote a declaration of independence, related on March 1, 1919. The repression by the Japanese on the Koreas at that time was brutal, with 46,948 arrests, 7,509 killed, and 15,961 injured. Many interviewees commented on the initial excitement of the declaration, shouting Mansei (ten thousand years of Korean independence).
But the Japanese changed how they managed Korea, given more options. We hear from several individuals of schools attended (although attending Japanese school required males to chop off hair) and businesses started.
As the war started in China in 1937, the lives of Koreans became harder. Many of those interviewed talked of being hungry, living on very little, rarely having rice. We also hear of stories of people surviving in prisons.
We hear of the changes imposed on the Koreans in the late 30s, required to recite the Pledge of Imperial Subjects (1937), speak only Japanese (1938), worship at Shinto shrines (1939), change their names to Japanese (1940).
Throughout the book there are stories of discrimination and cruelty Japanese inflicted on Koreans. Yet there are many more where Koreans and Japanese lived as neighbors, even friends.
For the Koreans, who lived in a world without information, the end of the war came quickly, on the August 15, 1945 radio broadcast by the emperor. Reactions were mixed, and most areas had to police themselves. In some cases, this worked, in other cases there were reprises against the Japanese and the pro-Japanese Koreans. The south was more tolerant of the Japanese, prioritizing order.
Last, Shinto shrines were burned, making bonfires. “What an appropriate way to help extinguish the gloom cast for over thirty-five years by the black umbrella of Japanese rule.”
For readers interested in hearing the voices of Koreans who lived during Colonial Korea by the Japanese from 1910 to 1945, this is an excellent reference and an engaging read.
The author was motivated to collect these stories because of discussions with her father-in-law, who lived in that time, and whose recollections “shook loose [her] narrow view of colonial life and made [her] aware that often, under that shade case by the Japanese presence, some people, some of the time, led close to normal lives.”
With the help of her husband, she talked with approximately 50 individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990s. With the acknowledgement that this collection may not capture all the essence of all Korean experiences, it nonetheless provides individuals’ insights and lived experiences, across a diversity of economic classes, locations on the Korean peninsula, and professions, and is a useful resource to see how some people lived and survived.
The author partitions the book by the three major stages of Japanese occupation:
• Dark age of subjugation, when the military ruled by treat and violence (1910-1919)
• Time of cultural accommodation (1920-1931), after the Korean Independence Movement in March 1919, the Japanese allowed some freedoms in schools, newspapers, and businesses
• Years of assimilation (1931-1945) with a renewed tightening of controls and forced participation in the Japanese war effort.
Even before the occupation, change was coming to Korea via the Donghak peasant revolt and Gabu Reforms of 1894-95. The Japanese occupation sent many men to Manchuria to form armed resistance to the Japanese. Several intellectuals, motivated by US President Woodrow Wilson’s principle of self-determination, wrote a declaration of independence, related on March 1, 1919. The repression by the Japanese on the Koreas at that time was brutal, with 46,948 arrests, 7,509 killed, and 15,961 injured. Many interviewees commented on the initial excitement of the declaration, shouting Mansei (ten thousand years of Korean independence).
But the Japanese changed how they managed Korea, given more options. We hear from several individuals of schools attended (although attending Japanese school required males to chop off hair) and businesses started.
As the war started in China in 1937, the lives of Koreans became harder. Many of those interviewed talked of being hungry, living on very little, rarely having rice. We also hear of stories of people surviving in prisons.
We hear of the changes imposed on the Koreans in the late 30s, required to recite the Pledge of Imperial Subjects (1937), speak only Japanese (1938), worship at Shinto shrines (1939), change their names to Japanese (1940).
Throughout the book there are stories of discrimination and cruelty Japanese inflicted on Koreans. Yet there are many more where Koreans and Japanese lived as neighbors, even friends.
For the Koreans, who lived in a world without information, the end of the war came quickly, on the August 15, 1945 radio broadcast by the emperor. Reactions were mixed, and most areas had to police themselves. In some cases, this worked, in other cases there were reprises against the Japanese and the pro-Japanese Koreans. The south was more tolerant of the Japanese, prioritizing order.
Last, Shinto shrines were burned, making bonfires. “What an appropriate way to help extinguish the gloom cast for over thirty-five years by the black umbrella of Japanese rule.”
For readers interested in hearing the voices of Koreans who lived during Colonial Korea by the Japanese from 1910 to 1945, this is an excellent reference and an engaging read.
June 19, 2023
This is a topic that interests me deeply, so I finished it in a day (which is a first for me, I think...). The other reviewers have already done it enough justice, and, indeed, it is a great read. Even so, I dropped one star because it could've used a little bit more detail on certain questions, and more 'prodding' would have been appreciated...
- How conscious were Koreans about questions of nationalism? Given the climate of educational censorship, how much did the average person know about genuine Korean history? Given that nationalism often found indirect expression through the (carefully censored and limited) public press which was briefly tolerated between 1919 and sometime in the 1930's, before the repressive war environment kicked in, what was the level of local literacy around each interviewee, and how often did people around them personally debate or discuss these things with each other?
- The use of only two recollections, one very brief and rather cryptic, for the comfort women issue was quite inadequate and disappointing, given how notable and sometimes contested it has become.
- In the introduction, its stated that the book was pared down from an initial 1000+ pages of interview material to its current ~150 or so; the materal was generally clear, but I still think a more fleshed-out image would have arisen had the authors not withered away quite so much material, and I have a thought in the back of my head that something important or interesting may have been left out... but I suppose that's a matter of opinion, and the call I would have made is not the one she made.
Beyond this, I greatly commend Hildi Kang and her husband for working on this back in the day, as oral history is a deeply important format of research for understanding history, and one that I have been craving for a while, after having studying the colonial period so much this past year, although almost always from a rather bird's eye view, and sometimes abstract, rather than actual lived experiences, which gives you a fuller picture of the times. (Mrs. Kang was also behind a YouTube lecture I watched a few months back, "Keeping Track of Family: Korean Lineage Records Then and Now"—interesting stuff!). I also commend the Korean-American elders they interviewed for their resilience and amazing life-stories (some of them are quite dark). I myself did a semi-casual oral history interview with an uncle and aunt a few years ago, and am always glad to carry out more, and also encourage others to do them as well... before it's too late to do otherwise.
- How conscious were Koreans about questions of nationalism? Given the climate of educational censorship, how much did the average person know about genuine Korean history? Given that nationalism often found indirect expression through the (carefully censored and limited) public press which was briefly tolerated between 1919 and sometime in the 1930's, before the repressive war environment kicked in, what was the level of local literacy around each interviewee, and how often did people around them personally debate or discuss these things with each other?
- The use of only two recollections, one very brief and rather cryptic, for the comfort women issue was quite inadequate and disappointing, given how notable and sometimes contested it has become.
- In the introduction, its stated that the book was pared down from an initial 1000+ pages of interview material to its current ~150 or so; the materal was generally clear, but I still think a more fleshed-out image would have arisen had the authors not withered away quite so much material, and I have a thought in the back of my head that something important or interesting may have been left out... but I suppose that's a matter of opinion, and the call I would have made is not the one she made.
Beyond this, I greatly commend Hildi Kang and her husband for working on this back in the day, as oral history is a deeply important format of research for understanding history, and one that I have been craving for a while, after having studying the colonial period so much this past year, although almost always from a rather bird's eye view, and sometimes abstract, rather than actual lived experiences, which gives you a fuller picture of the times. (Mrs. Kang was also behind a YouTube lecture I watched a few months back, "Keeping Track of Family: Korean Lineage Records Then and Now"—interesting stuff!). I also commend the Korean-American elders they interviewed for their resilience and amazing life-stories (some of them are quite dark). I myself did a semi-casual oral history interview with an uncle and aunt a few years ago, and am always glad to carry out more, and also encourage others to do them as well... before it's too late to do otherwise.
November 5, 2024
Super informative, ugh I love this book so much.
Gives a wonderful glimpse of many different experiences during the occupation. I purchased the ebook and I will definitely be getting a physical copy.
Gives a wonderful glimpse of many different experiences during the occupation. I purchased the ebook and I will definitely be getting a physical copy.
March 27, 2008
Powerful personal accounts of the Japanese occupation of Korea during the second World War. Don't have much to say besides that.
December 8, 2024
As a consequence of the Japanese victories over China in 1894 and Russia in 1905, Japan gained full control over Korea and began treating it as part of the Japanese Empire. In behavior typical of colonial powers, the Japanese took control of most vital functions and economic operations while having a small number of Koreans in positions of authority. Policing of the country was carried out by local Korean police under the strong supervision of the Japanese. The colonial behaviors of the Japanese overlords were firmly in position by 1910, the time when the first events chronicled in this book took place.
This book is a collection of oral histories related by Koreans that lived under the Japanese during the years from 1910 until the Japanese were defeated and removed in 1945. Many of the stories reflect the history of Korean culture. There are many indications that the nation of Korea is even older than that of China and India. While for centuries Korea was a tributary of China, it was never actually part of China.
The oral histories cover many aspects of the events in Korea during the colonial period. There were sporadic outbreaks of minor opposition to Japanese rule, but the colonization was not particularly brutal. At least until the war between Japan and the United States started. The people of the stories range from basic peasants to people that were educated in other countries and those that managed to be well off economically or part of the ruling class.
Given the brutal behavior of the Japanese when they invaded other Asian countries, it is clear that the weight of their rule of Korea was surprisingly light.
This book is a collection of oral histories related by Koreans that lived under the Japanese during the years from 1910 until the Japanese were defeated and removed in 1945. Many of the stories reflect the history of Korean culture. There are many indications that the nation of Korea is even older than that of China and India. While for centuries Korea was a tributary of China, it was never actually part of China.
The oral histories cover many aspects of the events in Korea during the colonial period. There were sporadic outbreaks of minor opposition to Japanese rule, but the colonization was not particularly brutal. At least until the war between Japan and the United States started. The people of the stories range from basic peasants to people that were educated in other countries and those that managed to be well off economically or part of the ruling class.
Given the brutal behavior of the Japanese when they invaded other Asian countries, it is clear that the weight of their rule of Korea was surprisingly light.
January 7, 2020
This short book is a collection of testimonies of Koreans under the Japanese colonial rule. It is cut into 14 chapters, each of which covers some part of daily life, such as education or business, or historical events such as the independence movement or the war effort. Each chapter contains various testimonies, the long ones spanning several pages, the short ones being just one paragraph. The testimonies are collected from Koreans living in the US.
I think that the authors achieved what they set out to do, to create such a collection of testimonies, which did not exist before (I think). Still, sometimes one would like to know more about the historical background (e.g. historical events, new laws and regulations etc). Also, when reading the book I would have liked to read some synthesis, some kind of "conclusion" of these various individual stories. What was the occupation like for most Koreans, not just the handful cited in the book? Probably I need to read other books for that.
I think that the authors achieved what they set out to do, to create such a collection of testimonies, which did not exist before (I think). Still, sometimes one would like to know more about the historical background (e.g. historical events, new laws and regulations etc). Also, when reading the book I would have liked to read some synthesis, some kind of "conclusion" of these various individual stories. What was the occupation like for most Koreans, not just the handful cited in the book? Probably I need to read other books for that.
January 2, 2025
Fascinating collection of accounts from Koreans who suffered under Japanese colonial rule.
Hildi Kang does a fantastic job of encouraging participants to unravel their minds and give the reader a vast array of unimaginable, event-filled experiences.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Korean modern history and especially to students of East Asia who want a more personal understanding of this colonial period.
Hildi Kang does a fantastic job of encouraging participants to unravel their minds and give the reader a vast array of unimaginable, event-filled experiences.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Korean modern history and especially to students of East Asia who want a more personal understanding of this colonial period.
October 3, 2021
A fascinating curated collection of interviews of Koreans remembering stories from the lives under Japanese colonial rule. First-hand accounts and individual stories play a significant role in how we understand complicated and difficult periods of history, and this volume certainly adds complexity to conventional narratives of colonial Korea.
January 15, 2025
This book was very eye opening, and it brought history to life! Reading people’s varied experiences helped me understand my country’s history with more dimension, rather than a monolithic experience of oppression under colonialism. It made me ask my parents about my grandparents’ normal experiences, and that’s already made me feel more connected to my family and heritage.
April 12, 2021
Apart from the quality of the content (which is also very well put together), the format is a really interesting way to tell history — through individual stories. It’s the most humanizing way I’ve ever read or heard about history. Really compelling; I wish more books were written in this way
June 23, 2023
Very eye-opening and informative of the lives of the people during the colonial period.
While I am aware why only South Koreans living in the U.S. were interviewed for this, I wish I could read of the perspective of the people who stayed in the Korean Peninsula.
While I am aware why only South Koreans living in the U.S. were interviewed for this, I wish I could read of the perspective of the people who stayed in the Korean Peninsula.
April 22, 2020
no quantitative data to support the claim. Too much repetition of hardship Koreans endured.
December 9, 2021
Interesting book sharing the stories from Korean elders living in California from their memories of living in Korea under Japanese colonization.
December 28, 2023
I feel like anytime I learn anything about Korea I realize I know basically nothing about Korea. Fantastic, easy to understand, and with a ton of great stories.
December 31, 2024
A great read for anyone looking to learn about this period. Some chapters focus on one individual’s story while others are comprised of several accounts, making it a light read.
October 29, 2025
Series of interview vignettes on Korean life under Japanese rule, told years after independence. Good first hand mix of views of the impact of the Japanese occupation on lives of various people.
November 13, 2022
it’s a beautiful yet sometimes soul-crushing read, and a great way to view first-hand what life was like under japanese occupation. I learned more about my own family through the experiences of others.
July 7, 2022
In Maus II, Spiegelman carries an interesting discussion with a family friend about Holocaust narratives: the ones who died never get to tell their story so maybe it's best not to have more of them.
In Under the Black Umbrella, these are stories by the survivors. Survivors who are now residing, retired, in California. Consequently most of the stories here are disproportionally from Christians, the privileged (wealthy landowners who fled the communist purge from Pyeongan) and the resourceful (a Korean farmboy who stole money from his parents and worked under the Yakuza to fund an education in Japan).
There's one particular story that exemplifies this in which a Korean farm head talks about watching a Japanese inspector force a poorer Korean farmer to eat beetle larvae that he couldn't afford to clean off from his roof. "The bitterest memory of colonial rule" as Chung Tae-uk calls it, but he observed without interfering and wasn't the target of humiliation. Even the tales of activism are mostly oriented around covert education rather than politics (such as Ahn Chang-ho, Kim Kyu-sik) or violence (such as Yun Bong-gil, Kang Woo-kyu).
Nonetheless, these primary accounts hold a lot of value because this realm hasn't really been explored in Anglophone literature, nonfiction or fiction. They hold plenty of powerful insight and emotional endurance. Despite them all being survivors, there was a healthy diversity of background: students, businessmen, housewives, conscripts.
I strongly approve of how the author presented this book: putting the stories chronologically, with historical context via footnotes and otherwise, complete with an introduction explaining their process of their research. There has been great care and attention put into the translation often at the expense of the prose, but all serves to provide a historical experience into colonial Korea.
In Under the Black Umbrella, these are stories by the survivors. Survivors who are now residing, retired, in California. Consequently most of the stories here are disproportionally from Christians, the privileged (wealthy landowners who fled the communist purge from Pyeongan) and the resourceful (a Korean farmboy who stole money from his parents and worked under the Yakuza to fund an education in Japan).
There's one particular story that exemplifies this in which a Korean farm head talks about watching a Japanese inspector force a poorer Korean farmer to eat beetle larvae that he couldn't afford to clean off from his roof. "The bitterest memory of colonial rule" as Chung Tae-uk calls it, but he observed without interfering and wasn't the target of humiliation. Even the tales of activism are mostly oriented around covert education rather than politics (such as Ahn Chang-ho, Kim Kyu-sik) or violence (such as Yun Bong-gil, Kang Woo-kyu).
Nonetheless, these primary accounts hold a lot of value because this realm hasn't really been explored in Anglophone literature, nonfiction or fiction. They hold plenty of powerful insight and emotional endurance. Despite them all being survivors, there was a healthy diversity of background: students, businessmen, housewives, conscripts.
I strongly approve of how the author presented this book: putting the stories chronologically, with historical context via footnotes and otherwise, complete with an introduction explaining their process of their research. There has been great care and attention put into the translation often at the expense of the prose, but all serves to provide a historical experience into colonial Korea.
December 11, 2015
The stories highlighted in this oral history portray a diverse portrait of life in Korea under Japanese colonization. We can see tales ranging from collaboration, to silent acceptance, to rebellion. While I did feel there was a very slight nationalist undercurrent (due in part to a highly over-simplified and outdated bibliography on the author's part), I felt that many different circumstances were depicted fairly, demonstrating the complexity of history and memory. Of course, interviews were all conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area, which can potentially narrow the scope of this oral history. In addition, the author noted that many stories were omitted for repetitive elements or for mundanity. I can understand that this attitude can help sell books, but I do hope these records survive, as a proponent of understanding "everydayness." Overall, I thought it was a fine book that can give some insight into life in colonial Korea, especially for newcomers to the subject.
November 20, 2012
I didn't love the format of the book (each chapter contains a long experience followed by a series of vignettes-- though considering how the material was collected, it's understandable why it was done this way), but the stories contained are more than worthwhile, showing the complexity and variety of experiences, both good and bad, that Koreans had during the Japanese occupation. It is a testament that history should never be drawn in broad strokes.
March 8, 2010
"This book gave me another perspective on what life was like under Japanese occupation. Some of what...more This book gave me another perspective on what life was like under Japanese occupation. Some of what I read, I expected, but others were surprising. I wish it could have more detailed descriptions on the comfort women experience.
January 23, 2018
Koreans have developed compared to the dark ages as this book describe. The Koreans used to be dominated by the Japanese and suffered sexual and violent abuses. This book contains the story of those who were lucky enough to get help from neighbors and sometimes, the Japanese. I liked this story because it reveals in a way that in the dark, there's always light....
June 8, 2009
One of the only books giving insight into Korea under Japanese control right before WWII. Documentary style, interviews with individuals, rather than a novel. Very interesting, though, really makes you wonder what you would do to help your family survive and where you would draw the line morally.
May 17, 2020
"It is inevitable that over time, powerful personal events gradually become impersonal facts and detach from the lives that generated them. However, these events did once live and breathe as real people."
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July 28, 2011Awesome collection of first hand accounts of survivors of the japanese occupation. I whipped through it and went back again for a second helping.
December 27, 2014
As the EIC of a Korea-based magazine that has often wrestled with the question of how to turn the translated comments of Korean elders into interesting reading, 수고하셨습니다...
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