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“The one stage in the process you couldn’t quite get your head around was the singing of the National anthem, which took place at a brief, informal memorial service for the bereaved families, after their dead had formally placed into coffins. It was also strange to see the Taegukgi, the national flag, being spread over each coffin and tied tightly in place. Why would you sing the national anthem for people who’d been killed by soldiers? Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn’t the nation itself that had murdered them.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts