Another book(Yeah! I did one more >.<)
What’s sing-a? I’ve beens curious for long time but I read it just now. It’s a biography of the author who spent her youth during the period under Japanese control and Korean war. It’s full of rich description sentences which remind me A black boy of Richard Wright. Because it’s biography who lived in a chaos world and written with very emotional descriptions.
I surprised at 2 things on this book.
Firstly, the author is a woman and secondary, while Japanese had cultural policy, the Korean could have kind of normal(?) human life.
So wired…why did I think she was a man? I really didn’t know that he is actually she because I never read her book before.
Secondary, For me, the word under Japanese control remind the massacre, violence which is like apocalyptic world but according to her description, the beginning of this situation, people could keep their life. In the country side, the traditional way, food and land haven’t been destroyed yet and people still could even have some fun.
The cultural policy is very scary thing. It can change people without realizing, slowly but perfectly. The children who were born at that time thought japanese language is cooler than korean and naive ordinary people didn’t really think what’s different between Korean and Japanese government. Just they liked who gave them the comfort. Well, isn’t it obvious? How these naive people could have known what is ideology and government. Most of them were just a farmer. If they could have warm house, land for farming, their family and some fun for life, they were just happy. Frankly, isn’t it closer to real human nature? We cannot criticize them. And we don’t talk about the children who are easily proud with some praise. It’s totally normal that they believe what they learn, isn’t it? They didn’t have any other source to learn the reality. I feel sorry for the society who criticized them, tortured them and locked them up. Contradictorily, she is saying that the peak time was during and after Korean war.What’s matter with ideology. Most of poor people just wanted to have a normal like, that’s it.
Near end of the war, the japanese switched their policy to draining korean culture. Finally, all the massacre came on the surface. Like the comfort women, unit 731 are the most famous international issues and they took all the metal, food and men from normal people for their army. These side effects are too big until now and they keep denying what they did, for instance changing school history text book, insisting to taking the Korean island, etc, so we hate them so much but if the war has finished during cultural policy or before, we would have cursed them like now?
At the beginning, it seems that they tried to convert Korean to Japanese instead of demolishing them. If it succeeded what could be happened? And me? Would I believe that I’m Japanese? Or would Korean territory become endless independent war area? Would the Japanese treated us with discrimination? Could I have all the liberty like now?
Fortunately, I don’t need to worry about all these, thank you for Japan losing the war -_-; I just need to think about my life. I don’t have to worry about being destructed my life by outside reason which I cannot control.
What a thankful life!