Yeon Lok Heun - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Fallen Blossoms
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@gevudan cough.. cough.. maybe it's irrelevant but your comment just somehow remind me of Japan. During Japanese occupation in my country, Japan recruited thousands of young NOBLE girls to be sent to another place, they said it's either to work/pursue education (Yes, they are the daughters of the king's relatives or reputable officials/administrators/chiefs/scholars/residents). Turned out they sent them to be comfort women. Japan gave each of them a new 'prostitute name'. They were sent to prostitute houses and being totally isolated in the house. Each of them had to live in 3x2.5 meter room where they were brutally raped by 10-20 men each every day and night. They were being abused, beaten, kicked, and tortured by Japanese soldiers. They were not given any clothes (their clothes were already torn by the soldiers), so they had to wear rags. Every Saturday, doctor 'checked' their health and injected them with antibiotics, but these doctors also joining in raping them during the resting time during the day. Condoms were used, but when they happened to get pregnant, the babies had to be aborted through drugs or abuse (like kicking their stomach). In the beginning, they were given food, but after time passed, they're starved. In the end many of them were fallen ill and died. Many also became crazy and tried to kill themselves. When they died, their body left to rot, no one took care of them. The dead bodies were just thrown away on the street and rot.
@Moth, it does seem quite tangential to my point. I was specifically referring to the situation in this novel and assessing how likely the situation shown by the manhua was given the limited info we have on the story. Yet strangely you bring up the horrors perpetrated by the IJA on Korea. There are significant differences between the situation presented in the manhua and the situation of the Korean Comfort women.
1. The IJA was a brutal and savage occupying force that saw anyone that was not Japanese as sub-human. This isn't really the situation that occurs in the manhua as this is a domestic entity perpetrating a major crime that is not very easy to hide nor too small to ignore against an individual of some standing in the community. I don't think the scholar's status was considered sub-human by the Viceroy or anyone around him.
2. Korea was an occupied territory. Outside of their home country armies and officials tend to abuse their powers. This is primarily due to a lack of oversight and distance from the seat of power. The farther you are from your home country, the easier it is to get away with crimes, to put it simply. To give an outside example, you hear of the US army torching entire villages and dropping agent Orange in the Vietnam War killing thousands of innocent civilians. Of course, mass protests against the war in the USA eventually led to the end of the Vietnam war, but imagine if this was before television and radio where news was transferred slowly. Information about the war would've been tightly controlled through propaganda and not enough people would know what was really happening to organize a meaningful protest. This isn't the case in the novel, it'd be very easy for the news of the event to spread to other officials and common citizens. I doubt there'd be protests but I'd expect some kind of sanction or punishment on the Viceroy, to save face if nothing else.
3. Nobility and status in one country is meaningless to another country. Simply being Korean Nobility would offer no protection or rights from the Japanese army. I am unsure of whether or not the Scholar in the manhua is a foreigner (doubtful) or a citizen of some standing in the country, but I would bet he is an actual citizen of the country given his obvious wealth and status and the fact that he owned a house in what I assume is the Capital of the country where he has servants to take care of his needs. I still believe my point stands that his status (and wealth, mostly the wealth) should've offered him some protection, no king or government could allow an official to be so blatantly and obviously criminal against the middle or upper class, especially against a scholar (scholars have a rather high social position in societies with Confucian ideals. Though I think you are aware of that.)
Personally I am quite familiar with how terrible the IJA can be and how shameful it is that their politicians ignore the cries of their victims hoping that the problem will go away. For my motherland, it's a particular point of contention between them and Japan, particularly how they refuse to acknowledge or even show sincerity in their regret over the atrocities that they had perpetrated. I don't particularly hold that against the current generation of Japanese, I just feel that Japanese politicians could be more diplomatic (not sure that's the word I'm looking for, but it'll do.) Still, I commend you for trying to spread the knowledge, though it has little to do with the story.
1. The IJA was a brutal and savage occupying force that saw anyone that was not Japanese as sub-human. This isn't really the situation that occurs in the manhua as this is a domestic entity perpetrating a major crime that is not very easy to hide nor too small to ignore against an individual of some standing in the community. I don't think the scholar's status was considered sub-human by the Viceroy or anyone around him.
2. Korea was an occupied territory. Outside of their home country armies and officials tend to abuse their powers. This is primarily due to a lack of oversight and distance from the seat of power. The farther you are from your home country, the easier it is to get away with crimes, to put it simply. To give an outside example, you hear of the US army torching entire villages and dropping agent Orange in the Vietnam War killing thousands of innocent civilians. Of course, mass protests against the war in the USA eventually led to the end of the Vietnam war, but imagine if this was before television and radio where news was transferred slowly. Information about the war would've been tightly controlled through propaganda and not enough people would know what was really happening to organize a meaningful protest. This isn't the case in the novel, it'd be very easy for the news of the event to spread to other officials and common citizens. I doubt there'd be protests but I'd expect some kind of sanction or punishment on the Viceroy, to save face if nothing else.
3. Nobility and status in one country is meaningless to another country. Simply being Korean Nobility would offer no protection or rights from the Japanese army. I am unsure of whether or not the Scholar in the manhua is a foreigner (doubtful) or a citizen of some standing in the country, but I would bet he is an actual citizen of the country given his obvious wealth and status and the fact that he owned a house in what I assume is the Capital of the country where he has servants to take care of his needs. I still believe my point stands that his status (and wealth, mostly the wealth) should've offered him some protection, no king or government could allow an official to be so blatantly and obviously criminal against the middle or upper class, especially against a scholar (scholars have a rather high social position in societies with Confucian ideals. Though I think you are aware of that.)
Personally I am quite familiar with how terrible the IJA can be and how shameful it is that their politicians ignore the cries of their victims hoping that the problem will go away. For my motherland, it's a particular point of contention between them and Japan, particularly how they refuse to acknowledge or even show sincerity in their regret over the atrocities that they had perpetrated. I don't particularly hold that against the current generation of Japanese, I just feel that Japanese politicians could be more diplomatic (not sure that's the word I'm looking for, but it'll do.) Still, I commend you for trying to spread the knowledge, though it has little to do with the story.
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@louie21 maybe just my luck then... But usually the josei manga I've read tend to underplay sexual consent ("as long as the girl enjoys it later on, it's fine", stuff like that 🙄), or forcing themselves on them is used as a "romantic move"; so I'm weary 😅
Fortunately in this manhwa, they haven't seemed to do that yet 😊
Fortunately in this manhwa, they haven't seemed to do that yet 😊
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First chapter and I’m already crying wtf
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alright i dont care if the husband becomes a villain and kills his family and children even tho they would be innocent and makes them suffer cuz he suffered too much
the guy is just a scholar and they were considered respectful and this damn lord or whatsoever goes and kills his family without a proper reason just like a beast
the guy is just a scholar and they were considered respectful and this damn lord or whatsoever goes and kills his family without a proper reason just like a beast
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