in Korea during this era, but - fortunately for her - belonged to a moderately wealthy family and thus was able to escape the comfort women purges. But she NEVER forgot the horror of those days for others.
She was also fortunate to be educated, and read and spoke fluent Japanese, as well as Korean. Needs must!
She later married a Korean husband. Per the story, her older brother told her that he could no longer support her in his household (their parents were deceased by then) so she must choose a husband. He presented her with three candidates. She had little time to choose and selected her busband because he was the tallest of the three!
She then worked in Korea to support his graduate studies in the US until they could afford for her and their two older children to follow him there in the late '50s. My DIL was their third and last child, born in the late '60s in the USA.
Her husband ultimately became a civil servant with the USG, working in statistics until his retirement. Once my DIL was in school, her mom worked as a translator, also for the USG.
Both are now deceased. But they were amazing, IMO, for what they lived through. They were also wonderful people. And, as you can imagine, life was no picnic for the family even after they moved to the USA.
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