What real-life Korean Japanese women did to survive [KBS Special] | KBS 160815

If you've read "Pachinko," Min Jin Lee's epic novel, or watched the TV adaptation on Apple TV+,
you might be familiar with a character named Sunja, a woman born in Japanese-occupied Korea
who leaves her homeland for the imperial country in the early 20th century.
There are many Sunjas in real life-Korean Japanese immigrants who migrated to Japan during colonial rule. They have indomitably fought against racism and stigma towards Koreans in Japan.
We'd like to present the stories of first-generation Korean Japanese women, much like Sunja's journey in “Pachinko.” We hope this documentary will open up important conversations around race, oppression, and reconciliation-not just as it relates to Koreans in Japan, but in communities all over the world.
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[@ricezzz2665]

it's truly so heartbreaking to think about what minorities have had to go through until just a few years ago... once i saw an old japanese movie by a famous director (i cant remember who it was but probably nagisa oshima) about a zainichi korean being sentenced to the death penalty over a crime he didn't commit after a lifetime of poverty and discrimination. it's sad to think that even to this day, zainichi koreans are considered foreigners in their birth land, and foreigners in korea as well.

[@dylanthekoreanteacher]

Thanks for another great video! 좋은 영상 감사합니다

[@irmar]

So after the war, why didn't the Korean government help these families return to Korea if they wanted to? Did they want to or were they used to Japan by now? I hoped that someone would talk about this in the video, but no.

[@hjkloj]

Their homes were in Japan. And because the Korean war broke out only a couple of years after WW2, they weren't going to come back to the war zone. And then, after the war from 1953 to the early 80s, North Korea was more developed and wealtheir than South Korea. (Honeymoon phase for socialist countries) And Korean Japanese could choose their citizenships between the North and South Korea. North Korea started building Joseon Schools and gave Korean Japanese financial aids to lure them to become North Korea citizens. So many of them chose to become North Korean citizens and remained in Japan. And many also went to North Korea to be never returned again... Many Korean Japanese in Japan still attain North Korean citizenships. The Japanese government doesn't automatically grant them citizenship even if you are born in the country if their parents are not Japanese. They have to choose citizenships when they are adults.

[@irmar]

@@hjkloj This is useful information. It would be nice if the video addressed this side of the question as well.

[@Sanismom]

Oh wow they should run for their life and not be in the streets of the city for the next few days to get their own way with the police force in their own hands to protect them from this horrible situation in this world they should go to jail for this❤

[@kitlitmitt]

😢❤

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