Sunja's Experience in Yeongdo and Osaka

         Throughout her childhood, Sunja grew up with her mother and father in a small house on the island of Yeongdo of the mainland of what is now South Korea. Here, she was constantly helping her mother take care of the boardinghouse – cooking, sweeping, and taking care of the residents' needs. Here, Sunja had Bokhee and her sister Dokhee to talk to, but there wasn't really anyone else other than them, her mother and the lodgers that she could talk to. Here, most of Sunja's time was spent doing household work.

        Once Sunja moves to Osaka with Isak, her overall lifestyle changes into a more family-oriented one. She is now Isak's wife, and is pregnant with a child. Although she still does household work, she helps Isak's sister in law, Kyunghee, to take care of their home like she did back at home in Yeongdo, but this time, she is treated as an equal by Kyunghee. Her perspective is widened as she gets the chance to see a big city, and is no longer confined to the boundaries of her home back in Yeongdo. She is seeing how Japan's colonization of Korea has not only affected rural lives but also urban lives of Koreans.