¡°Korea turned out to be this nice, laid-back place...¡±
It¡¯s 1918; Korea has been a Japanese colony since 1910; a Japanese settler recalls with amused relief the extravagant fears she had expressed on the eve of her family¡¯s migration several years earlier: ¡°We might never see our hometown again if we¡¯re killed by resentful, crazy rioters.¡±
No, she¡¯d been wrong and her husband right: Korea was the land of opportunity. Riots there were, but they were sporadic and distant. Although poor at home, a Japanese family could do pretty well for itself in occupied Korea.
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