He even tracks down Yangjin and reunites her with her with her daughter and grandsons. He warns her that Osaka will be bombed soon, and he arranges for Sunja and her whole family to flee to a farm in the countryside, where they will be safe and well-fed. Near the end of the war, Hansu reappears, explaining to Sunja that he owns Changho’s restaurant, and he arranged for her to be hired after Isak was jailed he’d tracked her down after she pawned the gold watch he’d given her when she was a girl.
Three years later, a starved, sick, and tortured Isak is finally released from prison in time to die at home. Soon, a restaurant manager named Kim Changho hires them to cook for him, relieving their financial burdens. While Isak is imprisoned, Sunja and Kyunghee start a successful food cart in the Ikaino market. During one of these ceremonies, Hu, the sexton in Isak’s church, recites the Lord’s Prayer as an act of resistance, leading to Isak’s arrest as well. World War II is underway, and the Japanese government requires everyone, including Christians, to worship the Emperor in weekly Shinto ceremonies. About six years later, Sunja and Isak have another son, Mozasu. Despite poverty and systemic injustices against Koreans, the family manages to get by in Ikaino, Osaka’s impoverished Korean neighborhood. Sunja agrees to marry him.Īfter they’re married, Isak and Sunja move to Osaka, Japan, living with Isak’s brother Yoseb and sister-in-law, Kyunghee. When Isak is well, Yangjin confides in him about Sunja’s vulnerable situation, and he decides to propose to Sunja-offering his name to her and her baby is the only thing he can do to help. Yangjin and Sunja recognize the signs of tuberculosis and nurse Isak back to health. Meanwhile, a well-dressed, sickly young pastor, Baek Isak, arrives at the boardinghouse.
Hansu offers to support Sunja financially and be with her when he’s in town on business, but Sunja refuses to be Hansu’s mistress, even though as an unwed mother, she’ll be disgraced in the eyes of society. However, he refuses to marry her, explaining that he already has a wife and children in Japan. When Sunja is about 17, she becomes pregnant-months earlier, she’d fallen in love with Hansu, a wealthy fish broker who’d begun speaking to her in the market. However, Hoonie dies of tuberculosis when his beloved daughter, Sunja, is only 13. Their son, Hoonie, who has a cleft palate and twisted foot, even makes a successful and happy marriage to a woman named Yangjin.
When Korea is annexed by Japan in 1910, much of the country becomes impoverished, but the couple still manages to establish a successful boardinghouse. At the turn of the twentieth century, in the small Korean village of Yeongdo, an aging couple begins taking in lodgers for extra money.
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