By: Bobin Park
In 1910, the Japanese annexed the Korean Empire, reverting it to Joseon, also called Chosŏn (Blakemore 2020). Today, the Imperial Japanese occupation is still a haunting memory of the past for Korean senior citizens. Especially to the women.
Read MoreAs my dad and I are driving on the highway, the radio station we’re listening to begins to play the Korean news channel. Yesterday, it talked about a celebrity being criticized for posting the Japanese confederate flag on their social media, and today the anchor could speak about the ongoing boycott on Japanese products in Korea, but none of this would faze me or my dad. For nearly a century, the two countries had never been at peace, at least politically and economically.
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