Victims of the Japanese
A group of females forced to make socks day in and day out for the Japanese Imperial Police
Who are the sock girls?
This group of communists moved into Pyongyang once the Japanese were defeated
What are the Russians?
She was the leader of the Russians
Who is Comrade Kim?
Kisa told Sookan and Inchun’s mother to give a bag of these to the guide who was to lead them over to the South
What is a bag of gems?
This was the god of the Japanese
What is the Shinto god?
Groups of females that would often jump of of a truck and kill themselves before they got to the latrines than to be used by the Japanese soldiers
Who are spirit girls?
The Americans created this barrier between South and North Korea
What is the 38 Parallel?
At this school many Russian and Korean kids were sent for nightly meetings
What is the Little Proletariat School?
They took the Sookan and Inchun’s mother at the guard house
Russian Soldiers
At night Sookan’s family would hang clothe from these types of doors
What are rice paper doors?
Where many men and teenage boys were taken when the Japanese invaded Pyongyang
What are Japanese labor camps?
These Korean Outfits were silk and had many colorful patterns
What are hanboks?
At the Little Proletariat School the adults would pressure kids to tell about this and would often give them treats for obeying
What is telling about their home life and what their parents do and said?
The guide told Sookan this after he saw she was having trouble caring Inchun
What is that sleeping children are very heavy and to let him walk?
The Russians worshiped this god
Who is Mother Russia?
This form of torture was used on many by the Japanese
Bags of this were hidden in the basement of Captain Narita’s old house
What are bags of white rice?
The Russians would make the Koreans do this every day and separate the children from the adults and not bring them back until late at night where they would reunite
What is manual labor?
Sookan and Inchun came upon a women selling corn and offered to help her with her baby and she have them this in return
What is corn on the cob?
Sookans father enrolled her and Inchun in this school once they got to South Korea
What is the Yuonghi School?
The Japanese would do this if children didn’t know the Japanese national anthem (Kimigayo)
What is ramming a ruler into their side and bruising them severely?!
Some Koreans were doing this to the Shinto god and temples because they were so overjoyed that the Japanese were defeated
What is smashing the Shinto shrines and defiling the temples?
These people were very powerful and got much information out of the children about their families and would punish families if they heard something they didn’t like
Who are the Town Reds?
This Russian soldier was the only nice soldier to Sookan and Inchun
Who is Dobraski?
This happened to Aunt Tiger and Kisa once they were discovered
What is death?