ABSTRACT
In March 1944 he was drafted to work in Japan in the survey corps of the navy's engineering section. He suffered attacks at intervals of about one minute, and when he did, his limbs and entire body writhed, and he gnashed his teeth which he closed to endure the pain. The lower half of his body remained undeveloped, and it was difficult for him even to move by sliding. Three years after his birth, a third boy was born, but this child, with a small lower body and a head more than twice as big as that of a normal baby, died in his third month. His family and teachers believed he had polio, but his father Ryu Choon Seung had a premonition that Dong Soo was disabled due to the atomic bomb. Mr. Ryu was not able to ascertain this because there was then no atomic bomb disease specialist in Korea.
