“20대에 항일운동 남편 잃고 가족 지킨 할머니가 영웅”

A 20-year-old woman, raised by a grandmother who lost her husband to a nationalist cause, has published a memoir detailing her family's history. The grandmother, born in 1908, never revealed her husband's true identity to her grandchild due to the stigma he faced as an independence activist and early socialist. Despite this, the granddaughter, now a journalist, has pieced together her grandfather's life through meticulous research and interviews.

The grandmother's husband, who died in 1940, joined socialist circles and was a member of the Korean Student and Science Research Association during the Japanese occupation. This information was hidden by his wife, fearing it would harm her children. The granddaughter's grandfather believed in using socialist methods to achieve Korean independence, viewing this ideology as more important than national independence.