[Kkokomu Steamed Review] "Injecting seawater into blood vessels"... Yun Dong-ju, crushed by Japanese atrocities

The story of 'that day' in history that we should not forget, 'Jang Trio' Jang Hyeon-seong, Jang Seong-gyu, and Jang Do-yeon tell the story of SBS 'The Tale of Biting the Tail' (hereinafter 'Kkokomu').

For those who missed the main broadcast, or for those who have watched the broadcast but want to review its contents, SBS Entertainment News summarizes it in one room.

, which aired on June 30th

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member Miyeon, actor Yoon Park, and lyricist Kim Ina appeared.

In the spring of this year, Gyeongseong Yeonhui College.

It is now the predecessor of Yonsei University.

Byung-wook Jeong, a 19-year-old freshman who has been admitted to this school.

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I came to Seoul from Hadong, Gyeongnam to study abroad.

One day, while Byeong-wook was walking on the campus, ‘He’ was walking in front of me.

As soon as he saw him, Byeong-wook's heart pounded and sweat dripped down his forehead.

The 'He' that Byeong-wook secretly admired.

Who was it?

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"A sharp, straight nose. Curvy eyes. Lips tightly closed in Korean and Japanese. He was very neat and innocent. He was, in a word, handsome."

This is an article written by Byeong-wook about 'He'.

A senior at school who is 5 years older than Byeong-wook.

Byeong-wook had never met this senior, but he said he had admired him even before entering school.

At that time, he had nothing to see but books.

Byeong-wook, who was a literature student, read a poem published in a newspaper one day before entering school and fell in love with it at once.

From that day on, he found all the poems that that person wrote, scrapped them, and became a 'devotee' by the end of the day.

And he went to the same school as 'He', and he finally accepted his real life.

Byeong-wook became 'Sacred Deok'.

Then one spring morning, someone knocked on Byeong-wook's door to his dormitory.

Byeong-wook opened the door and froze.

The old man was standing in front of the door.

The senior came to see Byeong-wook's article in the newspaper and said, "I really enjoyed reading the article. If you're not busy, would you like to go for a walk?"

The relationship with the senior that Byeong-wook admired began like this.

The senior Byeong-wook admired.

who?

You'll know it by looking at your face.

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Yes, poet Yun Dong-ju.

Byeong-wook and Dong-ju became close like brothers not long after they met.

The following year, she got the same boarding house and lived with her.

She spent time together and watched her poetry writing, showing her finished poems before they were released to the world, and that's how it became a shared relationship.

Around this time while boarding with Byeong-wook, Dong-ju wrote 17 poems.

The representative poems of Yun Dong-ju that we remember came out at this time.

‘Seosi’ was also written at this time.

During the Japanese colonial period, 1941, when 'Seosi' was released, was a time when Japan's atrocities reached their peak.

It was at the height of the Japanese imperialist war of aggression, so war materials were swept away from Joseon.

Koreans were plundered for food and even cattle for farming.

As a result, we were to the point where we couldn't even cook.

In this dark age of the nation during the Japanese colonial period, Dong-ju was writing poetry.

Then one day, Dong-ju handed Byeong-wook something.

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It is a manuscript of the poem collection of 'Sky and Wind, Stars and Poems'.

Dong-ju selected 19 poems out of the poems he had written, transcribed them on manuscript paper, and made a collection of poems by hand.

Yoon Dong-ju's handwritten manuscript is a total of three copies.

Dong-ju had one copy of them, the other to his teacher, and the last to Byeong-wook.

Shortly after receiving this manuscript, a huge incident occurred.

On December 8, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a US base in Hawaii.

Japan started the Pacific War.

Japan needed more soldiers for war, so it took our youth to the battlefield in earnest.

But you're worried about having Koreans hold guns.

You can shoot that gun at Japan.

So, Japan started the policy of 'Emperor Shinminhwa'.

I'm going to remodel Koreans to the bone and make them loyal people of the emperor, so I won't let them think otherwise.

As soon as the young students went to school, they shouted "We are subjects of the Great Japanese Empire", looked to the east where the Japanese emperor was, and bowed 90 degrees before taking lessons.

I couldn't read or write Korean.

After class, all the students had to go to the shrine to pay their respects.

At that time, it is said that there was a shrine enshrining the Japanese emperor and gods in Namsan, Seoul, with an area of ​​128,000 pyeong.

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In particular, Japan implemented the 'Chang clan name change' to completely erase our national identity.

You have to change your name to Japanese.

If I refused to change my name, I would not be able to go to school, and it would be impossible to have a minimal daily life.

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At that time, Dongju also could not avoid the change of the Chang clan.

After graduating, I decided to go to Japan to study, but if I don't change my name, I won't accept it.

Yoon Dong-ju, who changed his family name in 1942, changed his name to 'Hiranuma Escape'.

Dong-joo was ashamed of his choice, writing a poem called 'Confessions' five days before changing his Chang name.

“Then why did you make such an embarrassing confession at such a young age?”

With that shame, Dong-ju left to study in Japan.

But the following year, shocking news came.

Dong-ju was arrested by the Japanese police for violating the Public Security Law.

At that time, Japan punished independence activists even if they had such an idea, even if it was not an armed anti-Japanese struggle.

So Dong-ju was sentenced to two years in prison and was sent to Fukuoka Prison.

At the same time, Byeong-wook, who was in Gyeongseong, received a Japanese conscription warrant.

forced conscription.

There's no guarantee he'll come back alive.

A few days before he was taken to the battlefield, Byeong-wook went down to his hometown.

He had something to protect.

Byeong-wook entrusted something to his mother, saying, "You must never stand out from the Japanese guards. Please take good care of it until me and Dong-ju-hyung return."

This is a handwritten manuscript that Dongju gave me.

It was a time when Korean language and Korean writing were banned.

Written in Korean, this collection of poems was nothing more than a documentary on fire.

If found, it will be incinerated immediately.

Byeong-wook left his poetry book with his mother and headed to the battlefield.

year has passed since the suspicious injection.

In 1945, a telegram came to Dong-ju's hometown.

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"February 16. Dong-ju died. Find the body."

Dong-ju's father and Dang-suk headed straight to Fukuoka Prison.

But the cause of death is strange.

'Cerebral hemorrhage'.

It is a disease similar to cerebral hemorrhage, in which bleeding occurs within the brain, resulting in death due to sudden high blood pressure and rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.

A 20-year-old high-spirited young man dies of a cerebral hemorrhage?

it was okay

But an employee came up to me and said something strange.

"I was about to move the body to Kyushu Imperial University because the bereaved family didn't come."

He said he was trying to hand over the corpse for dissection, but there's a creepy secret here too.

Dong-ju's family witnessed a strange sight at Fukuoka Prison.

There are young men in blue prison uniforms lined up in the hallway, all of them Koreans.

They were waiting to enter the 'reagent room'.

At that moment, one of the young men in line hurriedly ran up to me and spoke to me.

At first I didn't know who it was, but when I looked closer, it was Song Mong-gyu, Dong-ju's cousin.

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Mong-gyu was born in the same year as Dong-ju and went to Yeonhui College together.

He left to study in Japan together, but he was also imprisoned in a prison.

But that's not a stupid thing to say.

His glasses are half broken, and his body is bare bones.

mongyu said

“I don’t know what kind of injection it is, but they told me to get it, so I got it and it’s like this. Dong-ju also got the same injection and it happened.”

What the hell is that injection?

None of the people who were imprisoned and given the shot knew who the shot was.

One strange thing is that he did a mental arithmetic test before getting the injection.

Mental arithmetic tests are often used to detect side effects when new drugs are clinically tested.

, can you guess what this unknown injection is?

Yes, 'biological testing'.

It is known that Japan conducted biological experiments at the Manchurian 'Unit 731' during World War II.

They called the subject of the biological test 'Maruta'.

'Maruta' means 'bark log' in Japanese.

The biological experiments they conducted on 'logs' are beyond imagination.

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"Is it possible to mass murder with a small amount of gas? I put pigeons, people, dogs, and several objects. The laboratory was made of glass, so I could see the situation in which (Maruta) fell."

- Former driver of Unit 731

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"I've seen Maruta experiment with frostbite. Soak her hands in water and let them freeze. It was like they had no feet or their limbs were amputated."

-All 731 Unit Special Team

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"A living person was dissected."

- Former member of Unit 731

The subjects of this cruel experiment were prisoners of war and independence activists.

All evidence and testimonies about this remain.

As a result of analyzing the data related to the Japanese Kwantung Army's Unit 731 released by the Archives of Jilin Province, China, it was revealed that the Japanese military drove independence fighters, etc.

But even now, Japan is saying no.

"There was Unit 731, but no biological testing was done," he insisted.

But there is one case that the Japanese government officially recognized.

If you look closely at this case, there is a clue as to what injection Dong-ju was given.

In May 1945, American POWs captured by the Japanese were transferred to a university hospital as subjects for biological experiments.

That place is Kyushu Imperial University.

It's close to the prison where Dong-ju was located, and it's the place where Dong-ju's body was supposed to be sent.

Is this a coincidence?

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What kind of experiments were conducted at this school at the time?

It can be found in the records of a trial involving the US military's biological experiments in 1948.

If you look at the records, it is said that 'a man named Senbara, who was a professor of medicine at Kyushu Imperial University, injected seawater into the veins of American prisoners of war.'

As the war continued, Japan, which had a shortage of blood for transfusions, conducted these experiments to find a replacement.

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What happens when seawater is injected into a blood vessel?

According to experts, since seawater contains various contaminants, it is very dangerous to inject it into a living body.

In particular, the expert said, "Even if we completely disinfect, some bacteria can cause systemic infections if they enter our body, so when an infection occurs in the blood vessels in the brain, blood components seep into the brain tissue. That's similar to the symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage."

There is a reasonable doubt that Dongju may have undergone the same experiment.

But Fukuoka Prison and Kyushu Imperial University are just saying that there are no records.

The only meaningful record remaining is “the number of deaths per year at Fukuoka Prison.”

The death toll was 64 in 1943, 131 in 1944 and 259 in 1945.

The number of deaths has more than doubled every year.

It is speculated that these may have been Marutas who were mobilized for biological experiments, but the truth has yet to be revealed.

On March 6, 1945, Dong-ju's funeral was held in his hometown village across the Tuman River.

Dong-ju, who passed away a very short life of 27 years and 1 month.

At the funeral that day, a poem called 'Self-Portrait' written by Dong-ju was read aloud.

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I go around the corner of the mountain and go to a well isolated by a rice field,

and look into it quietly.

In the well, the moon is bright, the clouds are flowing, the

sky is spreading, the blue wind is blowing, and there is autumn.

And there is a man.

Somehow, the man hates him and returns.

The thought of going back makes the man pitiful.

Looking down the road, the man is still there.

He hates the man again and returns.

When I think of going back, I miss that man.

In the well, the moon is bright, the clouds are flowing, the

sky is spreading, the blue wind is blowing

, there is autumn, and there is a man like a memory.

-Yoon Dong-ju 'Self-Portrait'-

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If you look at the poems written by Yun Dong-ju, there is an emotion of shame.

Why was Dong-ju so shy?

There was nothing he could do but write poetry, so he must have thought he was sinning.

What was Dong-ju's appearance at the last moment of his life?

It is recorded in the judgment.

In the sentence, Dong-ju's charges are written in detail.

First, the crime of liberating the Korean people and establishing an independent state.

Second, the crime of increasing the possibility of the independence movement by improving the ethnicity of Koreans.

Third, the crime of deciding on the independence of Korea in hopes of Japan's defeat.

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Did Dong-ju admit these sins in court?

In the last chapter of the judgment, it is written, 'The fact of the judgment is acknowledged by the defendant's public statements.'

Dong-ju admitted to all charges.

I mean, you proudly talked about the independence of your country in a Japanese court.

Even though he could escape by saying, “I never did that,” because there is no outward evidence, Dong-ju made this choice.

To not be ashamed of yourself.

So, 6 months after Dong-ju's departure, he had the independence he had dreamed of.

Byeong-wook, who was taken to the battlefield, returned home safely.

What Byeong-wook did as soon as he returned home was to check Dong-ju's handwritten manuscript that he had hidden.

Byeong-wook's mother tore off the floor of her house and pulled a silk cloth from the poison buried under it.

Inside was a handwritten manuscript of Dong-ju, which he cherished.

The original manuscript Dong-ju created was three copies in total.

The one in Dong-ju's possession was stolen by the Japanese police, and what he gave to his master is unknown.

What Byeong-wook hid is the only manuscript left in the world.

If it wasn't for Byeong-wook and his mother, Dong-ju's poetry would not have come out of the world.

In 1948, ahead of the 3rd anniversary of Dong-ju, his first book of poetry was finally published.

His bereaved family, friends, and acquaintances came forward to publish his poetry book.

The first edition contained 31 poems of Dong-ju, and 19 of them were in Byeong-wook's handwritten manuscript.

This is the first edition.

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The title of the book of poetry is 'Sky and Wind, Stars and Poems'.

If you turn the first page, you will find the well-known 'Seosi'.

'Introduction' is the same concept as the 'preface' of a book.

Dong-ju wrote the preface in poetry.

Until the day I die, I look up to the sky and

have no shame .

Even the wind on the leaves was

painful.

With a heart that sings the stars,

I must love all the dying things , and I

must walk

the path given to me.

Even tonight, the stars are blowing in the wind.

-Yun Dong-ju's 'Seosi'- The

sky that Dong-ju loved, the wind that shook him, the stars that comforted him, and the path he thought about until the end as a poet.

All of that is contained in 'Seosi'.

That is why the title of the collection of poems is 'Sky and Wind, Stars and Poems'.

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But Dong-joo originally thought of something else as the title of the book of poetry.

There are traces of writing and erasing on this cover.

The title Dong-ju was thinking of was 'Hospital'.

When I gave this manuscript to Byeong-wook, Dong-ju said this.

He said, "At first, I thought I might call it 'Hospital'. The world is full of patients now. Maybe this marriage book might be helpful to sick people."

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After that, Byeong-wook became a university professor and followed the path of a Korean writer for the rest of his life.

And he did not let go of his relationship with Dong-ju.

These two eventually become a family.

Professor Jeong Byung-wook's younger sister married the poet Yun Dong-ju's younger brother.

The seniors and juniors who admired each other became in-laws.

That's not all.

Do you know what Professor Jeong Byeong-wook's last name is?

'Baekyoung'.

The word 'white' means 'shadow spirit' or 'white shadow'.

There is a thing called 'white shadow' in Yun Dong-ju's poem, so he used it as a title.

It was engraved with the name of the love of poet Yun Dong-ju.

However, Professor Jeong Byung-wook said that he rarely brought up the story of poet Yun Dong-ju during his lifetime.

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“My father didn’t talk much about Poet Yun Dong-ju. It seems that he thought that it was not appropriate to keep explaining and talking about Yoon Dong-ju when he introduced himself to Yoon Dong-ju, so that future generations should freely read and understand him. Places like seminars Even when the person who announced about Yun Dong-ju in the drama said, 'Tell me if you know it well,' he stayed still with a look that was immersed in memories."

-Professor Jeong Byung-wook's second son, Jeong Hak-seong-

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Professor Baek Young Byung-wook Jeong passed away in 1982 at the age of 60.

He wrote this before he closed his eyes.

“Today, if there is any aspect of me that understands literature, loves the nation, and knows the true meaning of life, I firmly believe that it is only the fruit of the seeds he planted. I feel like it."

Jung Byeong-wook, who had a heart for Yun Dong-ju all his life.

His hometown house in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do is still preserved under the name of 'The House of Jeong Byeong-wook Preserving the Bereaves of Yun Dong-ju'.

There is a picture of Yoon Dong-ju and Jeong Byeong-wook together.

It's the only picture left.

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