Joodi+Son+KRW+Interview

=**Korean War Interview **=

=**Interview**=

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**Interview Questions**
1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, for example, your name, age, family, where you're from, economic background, etc? 자기 소개좀 부탁하겠읍니다. 예를 들어 성함, 연세 , 가족 , 고향 , 가정환경 , 등등.

2. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself during the war, your age, family, when you're from, etc? 전쟁당시 나이, 가족관계 , 고향 , <span style="font-family: 바탕;">가정환경 , <span style="font-family: 바탕;">등을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">말씀해주세요.

3. What did you think of the war then? What do you think of it now? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">그당시 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">대해서 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻게 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">생각 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">하셨읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">현재에는 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻게 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">생각 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">하십니까 ?

4. How was life like back then during the war in general? How was life like for you and your family? What were the things you saw and heard around you? <span style="font-family: 바탕; mso-bidi-font-family: 바탕; mso-fareast-language: KO;">전쟁당시 일반적으로 생활상은 어떠셨읍니까 <span style="font-family: 바탕; mso-bidi-font-family: 바탕; mso-fareast-language: KO;">? 당신의 생활과 당신의 가족의 생활은 어떠셨읍니까? 보고들은 것은 무엇입니까?

5. How was your social life then? Did you do anything for fun? Did you meet friends? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">생활을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떠셨읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">재미로 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">무엇을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">하셨읍니까 ?

6. During the war did you have to evacuate your home? If so, to where and how was the journey there? Who did you go with? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁당시 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">피난을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">꼭 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">가셔야야셨 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">습니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어디, <span style="font-family: 바탕;">누구와 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">함께 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">가셨읍니까 ?

7. What was the difference between you home and the place you were evacuated to? When were you able to go back home? Did you keep in touch with your family? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">집과 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">피난처의 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">다른점이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">무엇입니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">식구와 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">연락은 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">되었읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">집에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">언제 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">돌아가셨읍니까 ?

8. Was there an event that you still have a clear memory of? What made a lasting impression? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">그당시에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">가장생각나는 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">일은 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">무엇입니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">왜 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">그렇습니까 ?

9. Did you go to school at that time? If so can you describe what it was like? What do you think education would have been like if the war hadn't been going on? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">그당시에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">학교를 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">가셨읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">학교생활에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">대해 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">말씀해주세요. <span style="font-family: 바탕;">만약 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">그당시에 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">일어나지 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">않았으면 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">학교생활은 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어때쓸까요 ?

10. What emotions were you feeling while the war was going on? How do you think the war changed your day-to-day life during the war? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁당시 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">기분이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻셨읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">일상생활을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻게 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">바꾸었읍니까 ?

11. What emotions were you feeling when you learned that the War had ended? Do you remember what you were doing the time the news was released? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">끝났을때 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">기분이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떠셨읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">끝났다는 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">소식을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어디서 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">들으셨고 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">무엇을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">하고 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">계셨읍니까 ?

12. How did the war affect you? Has the war changed the way you think about things? The way you live? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁이 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">당신한때 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">미친 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">영향과 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">삶을 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻게 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">변화시켰읍니까 ? <span style="font-family: 바탕;">전쟁후 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">어떻게 <span style="font-family: 바탕;">사셨읍니까 ?

**Summary of interview**
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**Analysis of interview**
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1) How does your interviewee's testimony fit in with what you have learned about the experience of civilians? <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My interviewee’s testimony fits in with what I have learned about the experiences of civilians perfectly. The way she explained to me in detail what happened to her when she was a refugee, the way she lived, everything she told me fit in with everything we had learned early. The only difference was that she lived a bit more comfortable life than many because her family was part of the ‘yangban’ so to say. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2) Using your background knowledge try to contextualize their testimony. How do you think major events of the war affected their life at the time? <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With the major events that took place, or even in general the whole war, she was affected greatly. She wasn’t able to go to school, she had a shortage of food, she couldn’t see her family, she saw many things she shouldn’t have at that young age, etc. Without the war her life would have been a very comfortable one because she was one of the ‘yangban’ of that time but instead because she was a ‘yangban’ the people around her such as her neighbors and others were persecuted. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">3) Hypothesize or explain how you interviewee was able to stay out of danger. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My interviewee was able to stay out of trouble with the help of her neighbors and Korean soldiers. She told me that fellow neighbors would help each other by sending each other codes and signals when North Korean soldiers would come to someone’s house so that the person or the whole family can crawl over the fence into someone else’s house and hide. Also, she told me that the way she got back to Seoul from where she was hiding was by hiding in a little barrel that was used for gas.

**Essay**
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Although my interviewee was only 9 years old at the time of the war, she remembered clearly what went on during that time. This to me proves that the war had a very big impact on her if she is able to still remember what went on more than 50 years ago when she was only a little girl. She says she wouldn’t be able to forget the little tiny details of the war even if she wanted to. This was very heartbreaking to me because a little girl shouldn’t have gone through so much torture that early in her life. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> She told me her life story from the start of the war to all the way to the end of it. She states that it was night when she heard bombs and gunshots being shot. Especially because she was living in Seoul at that time, where the war started pretty much, she was in the middle of the war. She explained to me in detail what the people in the war had to eat, the things they had to see, the death, the orphans, and the hate. I have never heard someone so against North Korea like her. She said and I quote, “North Korea shouldn’t even be a country, there should not be a country such as North Korea.” <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Because of this interview I was able to listen firsthand to a survivor’s story of the war and her point of view. Just listening to a teacher talk about the war and listening to someone who was there firsthand was very different. Before I did this interview I just thought how different can it be, but now that I’ve completed this interview I see a great difference. Just listening to a teacher talk is just learning the facts of the war and the events that happened, but listening to my interviewee I can hear the emotion that comes out of her when she talks about what happened in the war. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The events that happened when she was a refugee is so similar to the stories I read in __ Still With Rice __ it’s scary. It seems like she is just reading to me a book about the Korean War that was maybe made up. Not only did she tell me personal memories and such about the war but she also told me the cold hard facts of the war. She said that there were so many orphans, homeless, thieves, corpses, destruction, etc. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Just listening to her stories brought tears to my eyes especially when the stories brought tears to hers. She stated that young people now a day don’t understand the harshness of the war back then; they learn it but they don’t understand it. She was very happy that I was there to listen to her stories without contradicting her like saying ‘why didn’t you just do this and that.’ <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> This interview has helped me better understand this war than ever before. Although many people might not be able to understand what she is saying, you will be able to hear and feel the sorrow and the anger she feels as she speaks. I am absolutely sure that this video will help anybody who watches this understand this war better like it helped me.