If
there is one important thing that I can change, I would like to change our
unpalatable war history into our peace history. Especially, a history of
former comfort women is a bitter memory to Korean. Due to the social trauma
caused by the war, there are many people who still are
have been going through a hard time to overcome it. Also,
many issues related to it have not been solved. For this reason, I desire
to erase the history. It is very hard to see people suffering.
During
the colonial era by Japan, there was an information on a job through word
of mouth. A lot of my grandmother’s generation went the rumored place. They
did not didn’t know what they had to do. They went just because they had to
solve their a financial problem.
However, it was the place that Japan army convened young girls as former
comfort women who were raped by force during a war. It has been remained as
one of the most ferocious days in history.
When
I went to a museum of them, it baffled me. Former comfort women have
desperately waited for more than 60 years for such a proper resolution.
Also, my grandfather went to the protests. I have known the history for a
long time through education and family. However, I did
not didn’t do anything for it because the history and
protests were not unusual for me very
common place. I missed the important history I took for granted. In the
museum, my spur of the moment decision to fight with them came in my mind. As a Korean, I thought that
I am liable for the history too. However, it was not easy at all. When I faced a reality of
our rotten structure of regime, we were the one coming under fire by
government. At first glance, I could endure the unilateral blame. However,
as time goes by, the situation was getting worse because former comfort
women are very old to fight.
I
have fought for them since I went to the museum. Sometimes, I think that if
there is a magic, I would like to make it did not didn’t
happen.
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