Kimberly T’s Reviews > The Island of Sea Women > Status Update

“We were all victims. We need to forgive each other.”

“Remember? Yes. Forgive? No. Young-sook can’t do that. Being allowed to speak the truth? Too long in coming.”

“Fall down eight times, stand up nine..we keep living, you would not be here if you weren’t brave. Now you need to be braver still.”

No way out but through

“Don’t waste the bullets, the commander shouted. You’ll need them later.

So that soldier picked up my boy by an ankle.”

I…. Am speechless..

Fascism AGAIN

“I’ll need at least one other haenyeo in the household to help pay for the boys’ school fees.

Jun-bu just smiled and shook his head. To me, all this showed that as much as I loved and respected him, he was still only a man and didn’t have the larger worries I had. When he was at home or school, I was in the world. I had to be practical and think ahead.”

“Listen to this… the US 24th Corps has taken an entirely different view. They’re reporting that a child was slightly injured when he inadvertently ran into a policeman’s horse… the police department sent someone out to say the shootings in the square were justified as a matter of self defense, because people arms with clubs had attacked the station.”

ACAB :)

“They was us to accept their form of democracy, with an American backed dictator who can be controlled, while the people of Korea - especially here in Jeju - want to hold our own elections, with our own slate of candidates, so we can vote our own way. Isn’t that what democracy is supposed to be about?”

Jun-bu, it’s just about resources and sticking it to communism, dude.

“Once I saw bruises above her wrist. A man does not change with marriage, and I had my suspicions about Sang-min, but I was hesitant to ask about him directly.”

“Another set of men living on the other side of the world had also divided our country…We thought we were free, but so far the only difference in our lives here on Jeju was that the Japanese flag was lowered, and the American flag was raised. One colonizer had been replaced by another.”

“Sang-mun regarded Mi-ja out of the corner of his eye. She was frozen in place. She was, o realized, afraid of him.”
…. Mi-ja is going to die a death of her spirit if this keeps up.

“Men! What is it about their natures that they feel compelled to gain ground and debate points over which they have no power or control?”

LMAO the husbands are.. opposites.