The series deals with Korean modern history, focusing on sexual violence during the war. It is a historical novel as well as two girls’ initiation story. Its temporal background is from the 1920s up to now, showing Sunam and Chaeryeong’s spectacular life with a deep exploration of Korean modern history. Especially, it deals with tragedies during the Japanese Colonial Period and the Second World War.

The story is built around the issue of the Japanese military use of Korean comfort women. Sunam’s experience as a comfort woman and her ordeal from the remnant soldiers after the end of the Second World War bring back the unfortunate scenes of a powerless Korean women’s life in modern Korea.

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1부 떠나는 사람들(1920년~1939년)
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