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The two Koreas were born in crisis.
Our text book starts with this sentence. I think there is no countriy which use plural form of country's name without Korea.
Korea's' . This is a tragedy and fruit of crisis.
So, I wonder where this crisis comes from?
Korean underwent Japanese colonial era and they got so many terrible things. At that time, there was one Korea and Korean tried hard to regain national sovereignty together. However, after colonial era, Korea is divided to two Koreas because of many factors. This tragedy might come from foreign pressure, difference of ideology or etc. Obviously, crisis bore the two Koreas and two koreas bore so many crisis of individual life.
I want to introduce Korean drama which showed the crisis and tragedy of koreans from two koreans.
'여명의 눈동자' Yeomyeongui Nundongja (in english : Eyes of Dawn).
It aired on MBC from October 7, 1991 to February 6, 1992 for 36 episodes, and reached a peak viewership rating of 58.4%, making it the 9th highest-rated Korean drama of all time. It's amazing record in the history of K-drama.
In the uncertain atmosphere of wartorn Korea, three young men find their lives inevitably interwoven at a time when taking sides was the only option. Yeo Wook (Chae Si Ra of Emperor of the Sea) recently joined the volunteer corps, Jang Ha Rim (Park Sang Won of Sandglass) joined the anti-war movement and fell in love with a Japanese woman, and Choi Dae Chi (Choi Jae Sung of Yeon Gaesomun) is a Korean student soldier enlisted in the Japanese Imperial army. Their destinies meet in the most tumultuous period in modern Korean history, from the ideological war of the mid-40s to the bloody battles leading to the Korea War.
This drama also draw life of the Japanese army´s comfort women, actually it was the military sexual slavery. After heroin suffered bad things, she attemped suicide.
Have you ever heard about Unit 731?
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊 Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai?) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japan.
Because of lack of food during the world war, snake was the food for lifehood.
These were indelible histories.
After experiencing Japanese colonial era, Korea met liberation everyone dream of.
However, Korea was dividied to two Koreans.
3 years later, the Korean war happened and then another tragedy restarted.
three friends conterposed because of the difference of ideology, during the war, two friends were killed. Drama said they had no choice but to do. They were just born in crisis.
And then this drama ended here. It is worth to watch it. I know that The Eye of Dawn is available on DVD with English subtitles. Maybe you could ask for the librarian.
As time goes by, South Korea have experienced many kinds of crisises and also overcome these crisises. However, the tragedy is not overcome at all.
Honestly, I don't have any idea of unification of two Koreas, but I hope to solve the individual tragedy of separated families.
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