hour 8: korea

“History has failed us, but no matter.” – Min Jin Lee, Pachinko.

To understand the sacrifices of my people, look to our history.
We were royalty and yangban who created language from ashes, but our time of glory has
been beheaded by the island folks who look like us. They have failed
to recognize the humanity coursing through us
and our land. What can we do but
retreat into our families and choose survival over resistance, when no
single child has a grain of rice to eat, what else can matter?

3 thoughts on “hour 8: korea

  1. What can we do but
    retreat into our families and choose survival over resistance, when no
    single child has a grain of rice to eat, what else can matter?

    What an incredibly powerful statement. I keep coming back to it.

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