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제목 [No. 218 Opinion] Remember, again!
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Remember, again!

 

Yoon Cheong-Ok, Dept. of Library and Information Science

 

"Sons are crying." One day this phrase occurred to me, while watching a documentary titled 'Exploring Architecture: Home' from EBS.

 

Poor and uneducated fathers, living their whole lives in Je-ju-island, fed their families by breaking rocks to build houses, walls or Wondam (a traditional rock-wall for catching lost fish around the seaside) with their own hands or old tools. Sons in their forties and fifties cried for their fathers now in their eighties or nineties with smashed fingers and stooped back.

 

Other cries came to my memory. Poor sons and daughters of poor parents did not return home from work. And their families were crying.

 

There were Hwang Yu-mi who died of leukemia at Samsung, Kim Yong-gyun who died in a pile of coals at a power plant in Taean, Mr. Kim who fell into a blazing furnace in Dangjin, another Mr. Kim who lost his life at the Gu-ui Subway Station, Yi Son-ho who was crushed to death under a huge container at Pyeongtaek Port, to name a few, and Jeon Tae-il and Mun Song-myeon.

 

We sometimes shed tears for them and look back at their painful outcries for asking “not to use those melt iron”, but soon return to everyday life as though nothing happened. Only remembering a few names, we never know them all who face such a sudden and violent death because of their poverty and frailty.

 

Don't I owe anything to them? I often ask myself. Whenever a space is given, I try to talk about it again and again so as not to forget. The world without any tears will never exist, but if we keep remembering, a world with a little less accidental deaths and therefore a little less cries would come someday exist, I hope.

 

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