. KCIA stands for ``Korean Central Intelligence Agency,'' and it gained notoriety as a terrifying power organization that silenced even the most crying children.In fact, a far scarier organization existed in South Korea, although it was not widely known overseas.
I got it. The Security Command is an organization that collects and polices military information. Originally, the purpose of both organizations was to gather information about North Korea. Mainly the civilian sector is handled by the KCIA, and the military is handled by the Security Command.
Although the subjects to be handled were divided, the Security Command, backed by the president's confidence, overstepped its authority by reaching out to civilians and arresting and interrogating them without warrants. The old KCIA was also arrested without an arrest warrant.
The torture was the same as before, but I think there was a ``difference'' in the roughness because the status was a civilian and the security command was a military personnel.
A certain day, a certain morning, just before graduation. suddenly! Two frightened men came to visit my boarding house and said, ``Japanese...
Mr. Nakamura, who came from Tokyo, wanted to meet me at the hotel, so let's go together." Judging from the atmosphere of the place, I could do as little as I could to say, "I don't know anyone named Nakamura."
I was put in a car and taken to a certain private house. There was only a single chair in a spacious room that was closed with a thick door. I was left alone in my room for hours and what was going to happen next?
Will it be? ! ? . "Why am I in this room?!" If you stole something, caused harm to someone, or something like that,
If I had, I might have been able to think of various things to justify my actions and distract myself from the loneliness and anxiety of being alone, but I have no idea why I was brought here.
It's hard to believe that spending time alone without something can make humans so anxious and fearful... Perhaps, without the knowledge of even his parents in Tokyo, he was acting like an ant in front of an unfathomable force.
Will it be trampled underfoot and buried in darkness? ! ? It wasn't until I was interrogated that I found out that the reason I went to study abroad in Seoul was because I was suspected of being a spy for North Korea (strange story).
"I don't remember anything about it, so I hope they'll find out eventually. The interrogation lasted for two days from morning until night, and they asked me about my classmates at Seoul University, who I talked to in Japan, and what I talked about."
However, on the night of the third and final day, he was taken to a torture chamber in the basement and was told, ``Take off your clothes! At the moment when he was ordered to
The faint hope that it will be released later has been shattered. Newspaper articles about people dying and having some parts of their bodies crippled by torture flashed through my mind, and I begged the interrogator to listen to me for just five minutes.
Starting with my motivation for studying abroad, I desperately talked about the sorrows I have experienced as a Korean living in Japan, from my upbringing to today. When I was young, my Japanese friends around me threw stones at me for smelling kimchi.
Or, they were ridiculed as "Korea! Korea!" When I came to Korea, I was looked down upon as a ``banchoppari'' (half-Japanese), looked down upon as if I were a foreign object, and was given no money.
Things like being defrauded. I spent all day in a dark, smelly, third-rate movie theater (Dongdaemun) repeatedly following the subtitles of foreign movies and trying to memorize Hangul (Korean characters). Watching the same Korean movie over and over again
The joy of knowing Tory. I was planning on teaching the language by offering makgeolli to an elderly person at a pagoda park, but I ended up getting drunk with him.I remember how difficult it was for people living in Japan to learn the language and become Koreans.
I pleaded desperately with tears, mixing things that were or weren't there. The interrogator who was listening to the story shouted, "Oibo (get dressed)!" 』
How grateful I was for that one word! ! ! Don't sign the memorandum
Exonerated! *“I have taken an oath not to tell anyone what I heard about what happened here, and if I violate it, I will take any punishment.” Month, year, last name, thumbprint.
When you open the door from hell (!?), there is another world! formerly Children running around enthusiastically, Ajumma (obasa) eating on the roadside
N) Ra! A car trying to force its way through a narrow road by honking its horn! What is this noise! ? There is a world filled with the smell of ordinary life!
Seoul is a mysterious city where a 'house of horror' and a 'place of life' coexist with only one wall in between! Liberate the city with fluffy steps
I go home with a feeling and the joy of being able to return to my daily life. I wondered if I could finish my 3 nights and 4 days of work (!?) and go back to my former life. Wholesalers won't sell that. People such as taverns (teahouses/coffee shops)
When I go to a place where people gather, I look around to see if I'm being watched. I had a dream about when I would be pulled again. It took me about a year to get out of this trauma.
This story can be described as the shadow of the ``light'' that achieved economic growth from the poorest country under a powerful military dictatorship, and the ``darkness'' that trampled on human rights. <Aside>
One day in December, when I was approaching my age. When the memory of my fear was finally starting to fade, I received a phone call from Lee, who had interrogated me.
I asked him to come over here. I was worried that I might be taken away again, so I asked my professor and close friends about what to do next and headed to the designated taban.
The tough-looking Mr. Lee, who had come earlier, greeted me with a smile, offered me a cigarette, and ordered me a cup of coffee.
I was confused by the unnatural reception that was completely different from when I was arrested, but I sat there without letting go of my tension. I was asked about a series of things such as the recent situation and the trend of the university, and at the end I wondered if there was a contact from the security headquarters. Of course
When I told him that today was the first time since that day, Mr. Lee was relieved to hear that and asked me for a favor. “Actually, you are supposed to receive some information gathering expenses every month, so if a military person
If you come to ask, "Can you tell me you got it! ” For a moment, I said, ``Well, I'll have money every month...'' Regardless of the facts, I agreed, saying that if I don't get taken away again, I'll get a cheap order! What a fright
There is a humble and weak person there. Done. * Contributed by Gon Yong-dae, representative of the Korea-Japan Temperament Comparison Study Group. Graduated from the Department of History, Seoul University, and graduated from the Graduate School of Newspapers. Worked at Korean Air Training Center. Asiana Airlines
Worked as the person in charge of Japan and China in the sky. Author of "Do you really know 'Korea'?"
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