6.25사변과 홍성중학교 급우 서원이가 생각난다. It reminds me of the June 25 Korean War and my classmate Seowon from Hongseong Middle Schoo
It reminds me of the June 25 Korean War and my classmate Seowon from Hongseong Middle School.
It reminds me of the June 25 Incident and my classmate Seowon from Hongseong Middle School.
The June 25 Incident occurred when I was a freshman at Hongseong Middle School.
A person could also be seen hanging at Namsan Park in Hongseong-eup, where Hongseong Middle School is located. Here and there, communists captured and killed South Korean right-wingers. If they didn’t like it for no reason, they would hang them with guns, fists, or knives just because they were right-wingers. Sometimes, they tied several people together with rope, took them to a mountainous area, and shot them all to death. It was scary.
Second-year students at Hongseong Middle School received military training every day, carrying wooden rifles and chanting loudly at school. At that time, adolescent children aged 14 to 16…
They put on their school uniforms, crawled, and went out onto the streets of Hongseong town, shouting loudly to overthrow Kim Il-sung’s puppet, overthrow Stalin of the Soviet Union, and defeat the idealists. I was really afraid that the Communist Party would invade the South again.
At Hongseong Middle School, in addition to drill training, I also learned subjects such as Korean, mathematics, physical education, and agriculture. I also learned music at that time. The music teacher decided that any student who scored below 60 points on a music test would be beaten. The teacher decided on his own that if you got 51 to 59 points, you would get one spanking, if you got 41 to 50 points you would get two calf canings, and if you got a lower score, you would get a spanking corresponding to that lower score. I presented it several times in music class a few days before the exam.
He taught us that the notes that indicate the length and pitch of a sound are divided into four parts: head, column, tail, and dot, and that the mark that indicates when to rest without sounding a note is a comma. We also taught that a note has one beat, three beats, etc.
A few days after taking the test, each student who scored less than 60 points in music class was called in and punished by beating them with a cane until their calves were red according to the number of points corresponding to the low score of 60 points or less.
In our class, there were several children whose faces looked like noblemen. One of them was Baek Seo-won (pseudonym).
I have never met that student in a friendly manner. However, he was a precious-looking child who did not look like the son of a father who worked like me. I am a lowly class child. In today’s terms, he seemed at least like the son of a low-income father.
The music teacher called the student out in front of the class and placed him on the podium because he had the lowest score. The teacher seemed very angry.
He gave the child the test paper he had taken and strictly ordered him to read it. However, the child did not follow the teacher’s orders and just stood proudly on the podium.
Park Seo-won, read!!!!!!
He commanded loudly.
However, he just stood there without reading the test paper he had written.
At that moment, the music teacher hit the child in the face with his fist. The child took a few steps backwards and fell onto the podium.
The teacher ordered the child to stand up. As soon as he woke up, he gave me a test paper and asked me to read it.
At that moment, the student read the test answers on his music exam paper with a loud and resentful tone.
“Let’s go bean bean sprout bean sprouts,” he read.
I gave the order again to read louder and more thoroughly.
The child who received the order read aloud much louder, ‘Let’s come to the bean, bean sprout, and daegal.’
After that, I often wanted to know what happened to that child. The child’s father was an elementary school teacher.
One morning, some leftists from the neighborhood came and took him somewhere with his hands behind his back.
I heard that they were tied up with ropes, taken to a mountainous area, and shot dead like other right-wingers in the area. It is said that Seowon’s father was a model elementary school teacher.
Seowon was 15 years old at the time. He was in mid-adolescence, with blood boiling in his chest and burning with justice.
More than ever, it was a time when he absolutely needed his father’s love of physical contact, love of eye contact, and intensive attention and care.
How can I sleep or eat when I think about why my father has such a miserable life in this world? How could I study well like others?
How can I not be depressed when I don’t know why my father died, even though I ask questions every day, and when I think that my father is no longer with me?
That’s it.
He had no desire to study, and he was 15 years old. It was when he was in mid-adolescence, with blood boiling in his chest and burning with justice. .
The child had no need for friends or teachers. Moreover, he would not have had to study music.
Seowon needed his father.
It’s exactly what it says on the test paper.
Let’s bring beans and sprouts to the world.
As a child and adolescent specialist, I sometimes think about Baek Seo-won.
Also, think about that teacher.
And I think about the love and education I received from my teachers when I was growing up, attending middle school, high school, and even medical school.
If she were still alive, I would like to meet Park Seo-won.
His parents also became class teachers.