![]() ![]() ![]() After graduation, Yang returned to Osaka Korean High School and taught Korean there for two years. Yang attended the pro-Pyongyang Osaka Korean High School, where students learned Korean as their “national language.” She then enrolled in the Faculty of Literature at Korea University (KU) in Tokyo–the pinnacle of the pro-Pyongyang school system in Japan. ![]() Her brothers were never free after that to visit their family in Japan, although one received permission for a brief return in order to receive medical care. Over the course of 19, her father sent her three brothers to Pyongyang as part of the Korean “repatriation” project to the DPRK that Chongryon oversaw in Japan. Her mother, following what she witnessed in Jeju, regarded the Republic of Korea (ROK) with even greater antipathy than her husband did.ĭespite growing up in Osaka in a pro-Pyongyang household, Yang Yonghi suffered an early shock to her faith in the DPRK. Yang Yonghi’s father became an official of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (commonly known in Korean as Chongryon and in Japanese as Chosen Soren). ![]() The April 3 Incident, the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) later that year, and the pervasive discrimination that Koreans suffered in Japan led Yang’s parents to support Pyongyang. In 1948, Kang returned to Osaka after witnessing the horrors of the April 3 Incident, an uprising that took place in Jeju in April 1948, and its brutal suppression by Korean rightist, police and military forces while the island was under US military administration. In 1945, they took her with them to their native Jeju to avoid the American bombs that were destroying Osaka and other Japanese cities. Kang Jong Hui (강종희), her mother, was born in Osaka in 1930 to Korean parents. Yang Kong Son (양공선), her father, who was born on Jeju Island off Korea’s southern coast, left for Japan at the age of 15 in 1942 and settled in Osaka. Well written, however, Yang’s story is particularly noteworthy for introducing to readers the realities of life for pro-Pyongyang Koreans born and raised in Japan.īorn in 1964 in Osaka, Japan’s third largest city and the center of that nation’s Korean community, Yang Yonghi was the youngest of four children and her parents’ only daughter. Her story lacks such sophisticated literary flourishes as magic realism or stream of consciousness, the sort of techniques found in the works of such celebrated novelists as William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Yu Miri. Yang’s novel, her first, is unspectacular as art. Another such story is filmmaker Yang Yonghi’s Choson Daigakko M onogatari ( A Tale of Korea University), a story of alienation and love published earlier this year in Korean as Tokkyo Choson Taehakkyo I yagi. For example, James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the autobiographical story of a writer who questions and turns away from his Irish Catholic upbringing. Cover of “A Tale of Korea University (朝鮮大学校物語 ),” by Yang Yonghii.Īuthors who succeed in recounting their own lives or particular experiences in writing novels present captivating portraits of their time and place. 도꾜 조선대학교 이야기 ( Tokkyo Choson Taehakkyo Iyagi)īy Yang Yonghi. ![]()
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