

2025.03.07
I had heard a lot about the museum, but during ์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ it was my first time walking inside. I knew I needed to go back, and I finally went because a friend asked me to go with them. I think the best way for locals to visit the museum is to go with a friend!
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ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ํ๋ฌผ๋์ด ์ข์ํ๋ ๋ฏธ์ง์
๋๋ค! ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ด์์ง๋ง, ์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ์์ ๊ฑธ์ด๋ดค์ต๋๋ค. ๊ผญ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ํจ๊ป ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์!
In the US, i first learned about Korean comfort women to Japanese soldiers when I was in college. We screened a film called <Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women> directed by Dai Sil Kim Gibson and got to meet and talk with ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋. The film and ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋์ story was formative in shaping how I thought about the lasting impacts of the Korean War and division, especially about the impact on Korean women and girls' human rights.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ ๋ ๋ํ ์์ , ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ก ๋๋ ค๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์์๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ ๊น๋ค์ค ๊ฐ๋
์ <Silence Broken: ํ๊ตญ์ ์์๋ถ>๋ผ๋ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ํ์ ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ ์๊ณผ ๋ถ๋จ์ด ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ฑ๋ค๊ณผ ์๋
๋ค์ ์ธ๊ถ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ํด ์ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
Every halmoni has a different story full of unspeakable violence and disregard for their youth, their humanity, and their lives. It adds an additional layer of violence that they were unable to speak out about the violence for decades due to social stigma in Korean society. The experiences that were forced onto them at such young ages was not a choice~ it was a result of the precarious political, military and economic conditions in Korea at that time.
๊ฐ ํ ๋จธ๋๋ง๋ค ๋งํ ์ ์๋ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ์, ์ธ๊ฐ์ฑ, ์๋ช
์ ๋ํ ๋ฌด์๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐฌ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์์ญ ๋
๊ฐ ์ฌํ์ ๋์ธ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋งํ ์ ์์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๊ฒช์๋ ๊ฒฝํ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ ํํ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋น์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์น์ , ๊ตฐ์ฌ์ , ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ํฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
I was adopted to the US as a baby. Although I can never know what it was like to endure the sexual exploitation that the grandmothers experienced, I do know what it's like to have my choices about my life taken away, and to be used by Korea due to precarious political and economic conditions in Korea at the time. I also know that the shame Korean society puts on my Korean mother and over 200,000 Korean mothers who’s children were sent for adoption is unfair and must end.
์ ๋ ์๊ธฐ์์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์
์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๋ก ํ ๋จธ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฒช์ผ์ ์ฑ์ ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๊ฒฝํํ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ ์ถ์ ๋ํ ์ ํ์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋ก ๋นผ์๊ธด ๊ฒฝํ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์ฒํ๋ ์ ์น์ , ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ํฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์
์์ธ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด์ง ์ฌ์ค๋ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ ์น์๋ชจ์ 20๋ง๋ช
์ด์์ ์น์๋ชจ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ถ์ฌํ ์์น์ฌ์ ๋ถ๊ณตํํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋์ด ๋์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
I am so grateful to the halmonis who were so brave to share their stories through this museum, and I hope in the future we have a chance to connect further.
ํ ๋จธ๋๋ค๊ป์ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ํตํด ์ฉ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด์ฃผ์ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
2025.03.07
I had heard a lot about the museum, but during ์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ it was my first time walking inside. I knew I needed to go back, and I finally went because a friend asked me to go with them. I think the best way for locals to visit the museum is to go with a friend!
์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ํ๋ฌผ๋์ด ์ข์ํ๋ ๋ฏธ์ง์ ๋๋ค! ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ด์์ง๋ง, ์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ์์ ๊ฑธ์ด๋ดค์ต๋๋ค. ๊ผญ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ํจ๊ป ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์!
In the US, i first learned about Korean comfort women to Japanese soldiers when I was in college. We screened a film called <Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women> directed by Dai Sil Kim Gibson and got to meet and talk with ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋. The film and ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋์ story was formative in shaping how I thought about the lasting impacts of the Korean War and division, especially about the impact on Korean women and girls' human rights.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ ๋ ๋ํ ์์ , ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ก ๋๋ ค๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์์๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ ๊น๋ค์ค ๊ฐ๋ ์ <Silence Broken: ํ๊ตญ์ ์์๋ถ>๋ผ๋ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ํ์ ์ด๋ง๋ฌ ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ ์๊ณผ ๋ถ๋จ์ด ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ฑ๋ค๊ณผ ์๋ ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ถ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ํด ์ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
Every halmoni has a different story full of unspeakable violence and disregard for their youth, their humanity, and their lives. It adds an additional layer of violence that they were unable to speak out about the violence for decades due to social stigma in Korean society. The experiences that were forced onto them at such young ages was not a choice~ it was a result of the precarious political, military and economic conditions in Korea at that time.
๊ฐ ํ ๋จธ๋๋ง๋ค ๋งํ ์ ์๋ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ์, ์ธ๊ฐ์ฑ, ์๋ช ์ ๋ํ ๋ฌด์๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐฌ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์์ญ ๋ ๊ฐ ์ฌํ์ ๋์ธ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋งํ ์ ์์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๊ฒช์๋ ๊ฒฝํ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ ํํ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋น์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์น์ , ๊ตฐ์ฌ์ , ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ํฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
I was adopted to the US as a baby. Although I can never know what it was like to endure the sexual exploitation that the grandmothers experienced, I do know what it's like to have my choices about my life taken away, and to be used by Korea due to precarious political and economic conditions in Korea at the time. I also know that the shame Korean society puts on my Korean mother and over 200,000 Korean mothers who’s children were sent for adoption is unfair and must end.
์ ๋ ์๊ธฐ์์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๋ก ํ ๋จธ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฒช์ผ์ ์ฑ์ ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๊ฒฝํํ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ ์ถ์ ๋ํ ์ ํ์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋ก ๋นผ์๊ธด ๊ฒฝํ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์ฒํ๋ ์ ์น์ , ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ํฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด์ง ์ฌ์ค๋ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ ์น์๋ชจ์ 20๋ง๋ช ์ด์์ ์น์๋ชจ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ถ์ฌํ ์์น์ฌ์ ๋ถ๊ณตํํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋์ด ๋์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
I am so grateful to the halmonis who were so brave to share their stories through this museum, and I hope in the future we have a chance to connect further.
ํ ๋จธ๋๋ค๊ป์ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ํตํด ์ฉ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด์ฃผ์ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.