Divided Families In Korea

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How would you feel if you leave your love ones with a promise to come back and couldn’t meet them for more than 60 years? How would you feel if you know that your family lives an hour away from you but can’t go? Koreans have been facing an urgent and pressing humanitarian problem- the divided families. They were defined as “those family members whose kin are separated, lost, or dispersed under the tragic circumstances of national division and disaster.”(2) They could not contact each other because the most militarized area divided them, ironically named “ the Demilitarized Zone.”(1) The divided families in Korea are those who are still separated from their loved ones after the Korean War.
After the submission of Japan on 1945, Koreans obtained …show more content…

There are various reasons why families in Korea were divided, but the majority of dispersed Korean families were divided under the war disaster, both politically and economically. Historically, the precursory conditions under which Korean families were separated antedate the above as seen during the severe Japanese colonial period, 1910-1945.(4)The vast majority of the refugees came down to the South with hopes and promises to return to their families as soon as the war was over. They were those who were separated from their migrating family members, those who lost on the refugee trails, those who came alone, or those who left their families behind.They had hopes and promises to return home and go back to their normal lives as soon as the war was over. None of them thought they were not going to be able to meet their family ever again during this time. After the war ended on 27 July 1953, no peace treaty has signed, and the two Koreas were technically still at war, and still is.[42][43]The Korean War left the two Koreas separated by the Korean Demilitarized Zone also known as the DMZ and broke the hopes and promises of 10 million Korean family …show more content…

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