ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about a man called Pak Hun, who, boarded the train to Pyongyang. Hun had made three trips to Pyongyang since liberation. Ojaknyo had spent the day worrying about Hun and his trip to Pyongyang. She simply missed him. Restless, she went around the back of the house to the well. She could see Hun coming around the bend from there. No one else could have told who it was from that distance, but Ojaknyo recognized him immediately. This is one of the stories written by Hwang Sun-won in this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. The story, which is the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat.
