Grandparents Going Through Tough Times?

PrEpKiD
Tue, 23 May 2006 12:53:40 +0000

Have your grandparents ever went through a war and such? It’s so interesting to hear about such events when it seems so far off.

I’ll start. Very recently I have learned that until my grandma was fifteen, Korea was under Japanese control. She had to learn in Japanese and have a Japanese name (hers was oyama) and such. Any Korean who spoke in Korean (she said she did a lot) would get in trouble by getting beaten up or wearing a black ring so that others can tell she’s a Korean. Many of her friends were killed, kidnapped, and all that other crap.

Since she entered elementary school when 10 and graduated when 16, she only got one year of Korean education.

I’ve read about such things, but I never thought to ask my grandma about these things because for some reason I thought she was born after all that.

So, when she was 15 Korea was freed. She got married at the age of 17, and when she was pregnant with her first baby she went through the Korean War. 0_0

Have your grandparents tell you about such hard times? It’s like reading an excerpt from the history book except that ‘book’ is your mom’s mom.