My harabeoji (grandpa in Korean) has lived a life full of hardship and although now he is retired and living well that doesn't mean it was always like that. In the late 1940’s right before the Korean civil war my grandpa was only seven years old living in Gangwondo Chulwon, which is currently part of North Korea. My great grandpa worked as a farmer and heard rumors of the coming war. He packed up his bags and took his family to the outskirts of Seoul in the south leaving behi

In 1954, the quiet villages surrounding Nanchang, the capital of the Jiangxi Province, had once moved at a pace different from what is familiar today. One that wasn’t measured in hours and minutes, but in harvests, seasons, and a steady rhythm. It was in this life that hard work lined everybody’s hands that Yingchun Hu began her story more than 70 years ago. Born into a modest household in rural Jiangxi, Yingchun’s early life was shaped by hardship. With a large family of 2 s

In 1941, in Jeollanam-do, Korea, my grandmother was born as the youngest and only daughter among seven children. She was raised in the...

My great-grandmother was born into a wealthy family in 1932 in Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea. At that time, Korea was under Japanese colonial...