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#1 In 1977, a young woman from Hyesan traveled to Pyongyang to visit her brother. She was invited to join the officers in playing games to pass the time, and she sang a song for the passengers. She was taken with the officer’s military bearing and self-assurance.
#2 My mother was in love with my father, and they began writing to each other every week. One night, six months later, my father arrived at her house to ask her to marry him. She accepted with tears of happiness, and both his and hers were in good songbun.
#3 Songbun is a caste system in North Korea that determines a person’s life and the lives of their children. It was created by the new communist state, and it was very easy to sink, but very difficult to rise in the system.
#4 My mother’s blissful year was turned into a nightmare when her grandmother refused to give permission for the marriage. My mother was forced to break off relations with my father, who said little in return.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	22 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669357681
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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In 1977, a young woman from Hyesan traveled to Pyongyang to visit her brother. She was invited to join the officers in playing games to pass the time, and she sang a song for the passengers. She was taken with the officer’s military bearing and self-assurance.

#2

My mother was in love with my father, and they began writing to each other every week. One night, six months later, my father arrived at her house to ask her to marry him. She accepted with tears of happiness, and both his and hers were in good songbun.

#3

Songbun is a caste system in North Korea that determines a person’s life and the lives of their children. It was created by the new communist state, and it was very easy to sink, but very difficult to rise in the system.

#4

My mother’s blissful year was turned into a nightmare when her grandmother refused to give permission for the marriage. My mother was forced to break off relations with my father, who said little in return.

#5

My mother married the official from Pyongyang in 1979. She was born and raised in Hyesan, a small town in the northeast of the country. She could not live with him, and left him just after I was born. In the Korean way of measuring age, a child is one year old at the beginning of its first year and not at the end.

#6

I was four years old when my identity was changed the second time, just after my parents married. My new name was Park Min-young. The wedding was a quiet affair in Hyesan. My mother wore a smart dress suit. My father wore his uniform. His parents made little effort to hide their disapproving faces from my mother’s family.

#7

I grew up in Hyesan, a city near the Chinese border, and remember the dress I was wearing when I was nearly hit by a train. I was laughing. There were now many people on the bank. My mother was among them.

#8

I had eight siblings, four sisters and four brothers. My mother was one of the eight siblings. She was very superstitious, and would repeat the saying, Never go down there, whenever I was in danger.

#9

My mother was a born entrepreneur. She was strict with me, and I was brought up well. She taught me to say goodbye to her and my father in the mornings with a full, ninety-degree bow. I learned to sit on the floor with my legs folded and tucked underneath, Japanese-style, and my posture bolt upright.

#10

I was four years old when my mother and father moved to Anju, a coal-mining city in North Korea. We did not like our new house, which was on my father’s military base. The entire family life, eating, socializing, and sleeping, took place beneath the portraits.

#11

North Korean families were not allowed to have any portraits other than the holy trinity of Kim Jong-suk, Kim Il-sung, and Kim Jong-il, the three generals of Mount Paektu. Every month, officials would come to inspect the portraits. If they found any dust or dirt, the family would be punished.

#12

My parents were careful about what was on display in our house so as not to draw the state’s attention or cause envy. If my mother couldn’t solve a problem with reason and good will, she would solve it with money.

#13

I had a close friend named my tiny pet dog, which was a cute little breed that people in other countries put frocks on. I would not have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.

#14

I was too young to understand the complexities of North Korea, but I still loved going to school. I was taught that Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-suk were the greatest heroes in history, and that they had saved my country from imperial powers.

#15

I grew up in a North Korean family, and my parents never allowed me to forget my duty to the Great Leader and the nation. I was taught to praise the Great Leader and the nation for anything good that happened, even if it meant ignoring the bad things happening around me.

#16

In North Korea, opium was a common painkiller and pharmaceutical medicine. It was sold abroad to raise foreign currency. My uncle was selling it illegally in Hyesan and over the river in China, where there was a strong demand.

#17

I had three idyllic childhood summers at Anju, and I will never forget them. But the town was also the site of a painful personal tragedy, when my little dog was killed by a truck at the military base.

#18

When I was seven, I saw a man being hanged from a bridge. The most random detail that stuck in my mind was the man next to me who had lit a cigarette and held it down by his side so that the smoke gathered foggily in his fingers.

#19

When my mother returned home, the hangman’s noose had left a lasting impression on her. She had never thought about how easy it was to kill a person as compared to an animal. The woman’s spirit would haunt the living.

#20

I sensed that my grandparents liked Min-ho more than me. They had gifts for him, but not for me. I realized that my mother must have known that this was how it would be. It was why she went out of her way to be generous and bighearted toward me.

#21

I was very excited about the move to Hamhung, on the east coast. Hamhung was a major industrial hub, and I couldn’t stop pointing at the numbers of vehicles everywhere. The air was badly polluted.

#22

I had to join a new school in Hamhung, which was filled with children from different areas. The atmosphere was serious, and the teacher would not tolerate any levity.

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