I’m rereading this book. And I can see that I’ve missed out on so much of the colonialism that’s not fiction. I was more interested in the characters, their development and the generational trauma that’s being passed down. But now, I cannot not see the colonial effects on Korea, not only in Korea, but also affect Koreans that are in Japan.
How out of the mind would one be to bias and unjustly treat Koreans so inhumanely that even when they pay you money that they are accommodated with a clean stable house.
How obnoxious is it to think of yourself so supreme that you genocide the whole culture and enforce Koreans to have Japanese name? And for children to get abused. For when Sungja got abused by the Japanese when she was coming back from the market. Why were Koreans lives not equal?
Colonization is not just exploiting Korean resources, culture, they plunging their souls into ages of suppression, submission which they can’t come back from.
How odd is it that they don’t really look different from one another? And yet they are capable of creating an invisible bias? There’s no war, there is no atrocity performed by Korea to incite such violent acts.
Because Japan became one of the supreme country that came out victorious at the end of World War I, no one really backed Korea during the Independence March of 1919.
I can see why Yoseb is the way he is, culturally there’s no exposure on how to make women feel comfortable. He’s not bad, he has traumatic incidents which made him feel that women are not safer, and that he should protect. I can see that all the negative things he says comes from a place of concern. However, the way he expresses it can be gentler.
Although I read it already, I can only recall things faintly. I think Isak is going to get himself in trouble and gets jailed and dies.
I remember that Sungja goes to Hansu’s wife’s house for money when she’s in a dire need. I know that Sungja and Kyunghee open the kimchi place to sustain the house with money.
This book is filled with trauma. But I’m ready to finish reading again!
How out of the mind would one be to bias and unjustly treat Koreans so inhumanely that even when they pay you money that they are accommodated with a clean stable house.
How obnoxious is it to think of yourself so supreme that you genocide the whole culture and enforce Koreans to have Japanese name? And for children to get abused. For when Sungja got abused by the Japanese when she was coming back from the market. Why were Koreans lives not equal?
Colonization is not just exploiting Korean resources, culture, they plunging their souls into ages of suppression, submission which they can’t come back from.
How odd is it that they don’t really look different from one another? And yet they are capable of creating an invisible bias? There’s no war, there is no atrocity performed by Korea to incite such violent acts.
Because Japan became one of the supreme country that came out victorious at the end of World War I, no one really backed Korea during the Independence March of 1919.
I can see why Yoseb is the way he is, culturally there’s no exposure on how to make women feel comfortable. He’s not bad, he has traumatic incidents which made him feel that women are not safer, and that he should protect. I can see that all the negative things he says comes from a place of concern. However, the way he expresses it can be gentler.
Although I read it already, I can only recall things faintly. I think Isak is going to get himself in trouble and gets jailed and dies.
I remember that Sungja goes to Hansu’s wife’s house for money when she’s in a dire need. I know that Sungja and Kyunghee open the kimchi place to sustain the house with money.
This book is filled with trauma. But I’m ready to finish reading again!