Part 1
처음 ~ 간도로 떠나기까지
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Record of an Escape
A friend has written to Park, scolding him for walking out on his mother and wife. Park answers with a long letter that tells everything: why his family crossed into Gando hoping for a new life, and what they actually found there. The letter is both a confession and an explanation of a decision he believes he had to make.
Poverty of Korean migrants in Gando under colonial ruleRealizing that hardship comes from an unjust system, not personal failureDuty to family versus a larger causeEscape as resistance
Public domain: the author died in 1932 and the work was published in 1925, so its copyright has ended in Korea, the US and the EU. Everything written here is our own; no translation is copied.
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- 나(박군) Me (Park) A young man who crossed into Gando with his mother and wife, now writing to answer a friend's reproach.
- 김군 Kim Park's old friend, who wrote to scold him for leaving his family.
- 어머니 Park's Mother Park's aging mother, who follows her son to Gando hoping for a life without hunger.
- 아내 Park's Wife Park's young wife, who leaves her home for Gando and quietly bears hardship.
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Part 2
간도에 닿은 뒤 ~ 두부 장사와 나무하기
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Part 3
깨달음 ~ 끝
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