A Korean man who couldn't go back home after entering Korean War | Undercover Korea
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- A Korean man living in Japan went to Korea to enter the Korean army when the Korean War broke out. After the war, he wanted to return to Japan, but the Japanese government denied entry of Koreans who had fought in the Korean War. His wife and daughter were in Japan, but he couldn't even send them a letter. Since then, after 63 years, he decided to find his daughter.
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Air date: Jul 25th, 2013.
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What a gratitude to this great heroic men , risked their lives, but rewarded a broken heart and miserable life😢. How many of them died without closure? 😢
If I could have been his daughter , knowing he is on his twilight years, I will get the first flight to Korea in a minute.
My admiration and due respect to Sir Kim , he is indeed a man of strength , and hope never waver. My prayers for him and his likes , the best and happiness of their remaining life.❤
Same, if I were her, I would waste no second - unless she doesn't want to see him at all
"She didn't get remarried and live alone. Raising her daughter on her own" :"( kimiko❤
Kimiko the real one. They don’t make women like that ride or die these days. 😢
She is lucky. Her dad is very loving and responsible. My japanese husband is the opposite. He abandoned us without a word. Just vanished into thin air. He left me with 4 children to raise by myself. I never re-married or look for a partner. I still prayed he is still alive and have a change of heart to reconnect with his children, atleast. This is sad.
I felt so sorry for them both, it sounds like she is trying to protect her feelings as it was such a shock for her, but her father is so old and i think he knows deep down the meeting might never happen, her ending of the conversation was way to formal, but then again miracles do happen.
Oh man. This made me cry! I hope he has closure.
The young reporter was such a nice man wow 👌 👏 😍 for this old man that was looking for his daughter 😳 👏 👍
What a bummer. They never reunited? He was 88 and died at 92. I wonder if that was the ONLY phone call he had with his daughter via the reporter during those 4 years.
Please bring the part 2 we want to see the reunion of the fsther and daughter ..make it fast please as this father had waited for so long .. please
It's been 10 years since this aired. We NEED a follow up. Did they ever meet?
This made me cry, I can feel his pain.
Apparently he died in 2018 without meeting her
There's no reason why they would have not met after this call since she was willing to 🤷🏻♀️
@@DreamsOfFrozen source?
@@medeacassandralogos The problem is to meet him would reveal to her husband and children that she was not 100% Japanese. Japan is very funny that way.
@@tjj300 she could have just met her dad and not tell anyone 🤷🏻♀️
I feel his daughter has such a cold heart I lost my father in 2015 and every day I long to see my daddy
I couldn't believe she turned down meeting him. The excuse she gave about her husband and children not knowing that her father was alive was ridiculous. Why should that matter whether she met him or not? The end said she came to Hapchun to look for her father, but I think by then he had passed away.
i find it very interesting how his wife said those words...."she probably struggled so much raising kids alone, why search for her?" korean women probably often have this as the first thoughts in their heads when it comes to searching for lost children. as a korean adoptee, it gives me a perspective into all the single mothers in korea who also face the same dilemma of wanting to see their abandoned children but feeling shame about it.
It is really sad they didn't get to meet, but I wouldn't judge the daughter at all --- none of this is her fault either. You don't know how difficult it was for her and her mother being left alone without support in a post war world, or how abandoned she must have felt knowing her father had a whole other family in Korea. She might resent him for enlisting with Korea to begin with --- because at that point he did choose to leave them, even if he did have intentions of returning. I thought his wife back in Korea was being harsh by saying he abandoned them --- but honestly that might be how his Japanese daughter feels --- he DID leave them to go to war.
It takes time to work out those feelings of abandonment and memories of hardship and trauma --- even if it wasn't really her dad's fault he couldn't go back for her. I wish they could have met before he passed, but in reality she doesn't owe her father. She did call and directly speak to him, and honestly asking for time to process her own feelings and tell her family is a reasonable ask --- that's a little different from saying "fuck off." It's more like "I wanted you to know i'm alive and ok, but i need some time and space to process right now." She didn't owe him anything but still gave him that.
I hope he had solace in knowing she was alive, and even he said "i can't resent my children, we're complete strangers now." And "she lost her mother and her little brother" --- He understands her feelings, as heartbroken as he must be for himself.
War sucks.
An elderly Korean man openly shedding tears in front of others is testament to just how much he longed for his family, war is cruel indeed
I have a lost grandfather from korea who suddenly disappeared from my mom's family, presumingly going back to Korea for some business and never was allowed to return. We are still looking for him even though he is most likely long gone.
I read a comment that said that this poor man never got to see his daughter before he passed away. if it's true, this is very sad.
I was looking at korean sites about this, and it looks like it's true 😢
So sad story, but I'm happy that they will meet soon, God bless❤
Why his daughter can't meet her own father? Even telling her husband and kids seems like a big deal. Unless she told them another version of her past.
It is said that the Japanese resent the Koreans and as well view them as inferior. So this would have been a big deal for her marriage. Either way, it is quite unfortunate what war and politics can do to the common citizen.
It would have been so wonderful if they had shown her come and meet him. She didn't even call him "daddy" on phone which he always remembered of her as a kid.
I can feel his regret & pain of not being able to reunite with his wife and children, although it was absolutely NO FAULT of his, and the other young men who had left Japan to fight for korea.
People in power ruin so many innocent lives, stories from history tell us time and again.
Sometimes recommendations throws ya a great one. 🙌🏽
WOow 😢 You are an inspiration for lost families 💜 May GOD guide you, so your love for your child, brings closure. Thank you sooo much for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😁🙏🙏
Iwish to see the father and daughter meet , I hope the good daughter make a way soon tomeet her father
I hope it will have follow-up story this was aired last 2013 🙏🙏🙏
❤😢😢such a sad story of life, all wars are cruel. The dying, loss of life, families destroyed... so glad to hear is daughter got a physical touch with him, this is something he wanted her to know and to be forgiven ... this all of which was out of his control.... but he never forgot for all those missing years never left his heart ❤😢
I'm a retired documentary film maker ... this was beautifully made with thoughtful spaces in the timeline and nicely composed linking shots, although the 'Grandfather's Clock' theme sounds a bit over the top to Western ears! R (Australia)
Dang, I watched the entire story and never got to see the reunion.
If it wasn’t for the Japanese government his life would have been different, so sorry for this😢
Quelle triste histoire, je souhaite de tout coeur que ce monsieur et sa fille puissent se revoir rapidement. 🙏💖😢
How sad she didn’t jump at the chance to meet him. Another heart break for him. Hope they reunite before it’s too late 😢
Hope you can document their meeting and be able to watch...
PLEASE UPDATE US ALL WHO HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THIS STORY
I hope they meet 😢💔 so sad...the man is to old now...pls give him a love that he needs...time is precious...part 2 pls...the documentary...
To those of you judging the daughter. There is a context that you are not getting. Japanese marry Japanese. The mother not telling her daughter that she was Korean by 1/2 was to protect her so she could marry and have a family. The Korean father would have known this. He would also understand the difficulty that this no place the daughter. What was more important is the tone of the daughters voice it had given her great pleasure to know that she was not abandon by her father and that all these years she was thought of and loved. And on his part he know's her life is well. What more could he ask when he himself moved on and had his own family with joys, sorrows and accomplishments.
What is the daughter thinking, not wanting to meet her Father right away. Will speak to her husband, for goodness sake.
Poor guy! 88 years old and she says "one day" as if they had all the time in the world. She must learn to forgive very soon or she will always regret it.
She doesn't want to see her father right away? He wont live much longer and his grandchildren should kgwt to know him. How cruel of her!
Please say they met often after that one meeting . That poor dad did what he thought was right and Japan instead of rewarding him punishes him repeatedly
What was the big deal about telling her husband and children? I would have been on the next flight out.
The Japanese felt that the Koreans were inferior to them because the Korean peninsular was annexed and colonised by Japan in 1910.
Sadly she would not have a happy husband and children if they realized she was part Korean
Feel so bad for Miyoko and her mother.
They are the victims of war. And the young generations are taking for granted what these then young soldiers had to fight for. Years had passed that this had been.broadcast. I hope that if he had gone already, he was able to meet the long missed daughter.
...any follow up (video) if they finally met???
I didn’t know I would cry so much😢😊
Really sad story. 😭😭😭 Feel sorry 4 his Japanese family. This man might b passed away already. It's a documentary of 2013. Hopefully father & daughter were reunited. Sending 🙏🏻🙏🏻 & ❤❤
A very sad story,,eveñ it succeed finding the lost one,,still sad to know the two love ones vanished,!!!yet it comes one consequences of war,,although happy to be with for the remaining one,,,still regretting thus hard times saving times that shortly remain..,..very sad still..
I rly hope his daughter met him. My father left me when I was 4 for another family and went back to vietnam, leaving my mother with 5 children on her own to raise. He finally came back the last 12 years of his life, and I never spent one day w him. He died last year and I do have deep regret of not seeing him one last time.. not even to see him off at the airport. But how am I suppose to feel.. someone who is a stranger to me? I rly wish I didn’t have this mindset then. It would’ve been nice to have a father, even as a stranger. This now, I know.. when it’s too late.
Cue tears 😢
Why do i feel hurt for his Korean wife and children
She should of met him , now its to late he died how sad is that 😢
Was the daughter ever ready ? Did father & daughter ever meet
Heartbreaking
Did Kimito and her father meet? Only think Kimito did was just gave her mother's grave location to father. Does any one know?
She needs to meet her daddy. He doesn't have much time.
THIS IS A VERY TOUCHING STORY I'LL HOPE THEY'LL MEET ONE DAY BEFORE IT'S TO LATE
Sangat mengharukan, penyesalan selalu di belakang terlebih karena alasan keadaan politik, sehingga mungkin lebih sulit untuk mengungkap di masyarakat dan membuat mereka menerima,,alasan kimiko mengatakan bahwa ayah anaknya meninggal,ku menilainya agar melindungi anaknya dari kemungkinan penerimaan lingkungan, sungguh pembelajaran besar bagi kita yang menontonnya
This is sad.. :(
What situation and what reason not to see your father face to face?? Whatever that reason it is all negative and wrong . .what your afraid for responsibilities? Taking care your own old father? Your father needs you want you to met you physically before he die that's all ..when your on his shoe someday will be and youll be understand it all
I find it kind of hard to hear the second wife make a comment that he basically abandoned them and she keeps saying it over and over and over again as if she is trying to say he doesn't deserve to try to find them.
I see no evidence that he abandoned them I see evidence that He tried to come back and with prevented from coming back Totally different from Having the ability to go back and choosing not to I'm not quite sure where the wife's thought pattern is here
Such a sad story. I am glad he found his daughter. Just wish she would have met him right away. He is elderly, and you never know what can happen
Unfortunately the relationship between Japanese people and Korean were the reason she was standoffish she had always thought she was Japanese this was in 2013 thankfully she didn't resent him for it or anything and she learned to accept it I believe for what I researched was in a different language so not all of it was easy to understand
There’s a book called Pachinko, it’s also been made into a really good tv series on Apple TV (second season coming this year). It does a great job at explaining the prejudice Koreans faced in Japan after the occupation and wars (prejudice that still is around today) and the nature of identity issues for those who are half Korean/Japanese. I don’t doubt that his daughter worried how her husband would take being married to a half Korean woman and how her children would also feel about their heritage. Her mother probably lied about her father so that she would have had an easier time finding a husband presenting as a fully Japanese woman.
Let’s focus on the positivity here: better late than never.
@@hannahhudson9335are you not going to provide the title of this series??
@@lynnloww So you’re on UA-cam and obviously own a device of some kind. In the time it took you to write that comment and wait for my reply, you could’ve just Googled “Pachinko”, where then you would quickly realise that the tv adaptation is also named the same. I thought I made that pretty obvious. My apologies, I didn’t realise I should’ve dumbed down my comment to a level beyond basic elementary comprehension and common sense.
It was so heartbreaking at the end of the film when he said the words “if only i did not leave Japan”. To hear that from an old man, words of deep regret . . .
I hope the two of them can live comfortably. No one was wrong here. It's just the world and time that make us make bad choices
the japanese government was wrong. . never minding of their citizens' feelings and would be outcome of having a broken family with no Korean Father at home. i think this is one of the reasons why Koreans hates Japan until now .
This was so heartbreaking, at least he knows his daughter is alive, married and had children. 😢wish the daughter could go to South Korea and see him just once. ❤
He deserves the world, having the patience to wait this long for his family.... heart of gold.
My heart broke for him. He never forgot his daughter, and she didn't feel an urgency to meet her elderly father. I pray they meet soon before it's too late, and she regrets not meeting him sooner.
yeah seemed like she resented him. But the Japanese way is to not be too direct (except for certain areas maybe). Considering she knew how old he was the 'not now' basically was a 'I don't want to see you, even if you die' :(
He couldn't go back apparently so that's heartbreaking, it wasn't his fault
Kimiko stayed loyal until the bitter end. Very Japanese of her and she should be very proud of what she accomplished. Kimiko was an amazing woman.
The boys??
@@baily9840the boy died before the age of one according to his daughter
Her father is old and probably won't have that much time left. I hope Miyoko will do the right thing as soon as possible and meet her father.
I was trying to look around to see if they met, and it seems like he passed away on June 2018 before they could meet😭
@@syang6477 is that so? so sad
She could be meet his dad
@@carmelavalley yes unfortunately 😔
@@syang6477 omg 😭😭😭
This is so heartbreaking. The Japanese government is so f’d up sometimes. As a Japanese person it feels so shameful. I hope he got to meet his daughter. I don’t know why she’s putting off telling her family. Her father is 88. Does she think he’ll live forever? It’s very disappointing to me. Especially since none of this is his fault. He could have completely abandoned them and never look back but he went to great lengths to find them. Blessings to him
I am surprised as a Japanese person you are wondering why she is worried about telling her husband she is half Korean. I am Japanese and I 💯 understand why this puts her in a difficult position.😊
@@bearsong8486as a non asian can you clarify why its difficult. is there hatred and animosity for Koreans in japan? will she be discriminated if ahe lets her famiky know her father is Korean?
@@iamarmytinyctzenthebyes, we are second class citizens in Japan. However, I do understand this complex situation. The father could have gone back - like 5-10 years after the war. He had another family by then and it would be improper to ditch them and try and find his original family in Japan. He’s probably thinking she has met another husband by then.
On the other hand, Miyoko’s mother didn’t seem to make much effort to find him. I will say she is deceased (RIP), so she can’t explain her side either. It’s weird she never remarried, but didn’t go to great lengths to find her husband.
Anyways, this is such a profound and sad story. I don’t think I’d do what he did if war broke out… I used to be very nationalistic in that way. But I can’t abandon my wife and children. My loyalty has to be them first - then country. I learned that through this documentary. Very good lesson for Koreans and Japanese together.
no shade man but boy i don’t understand how brutal japans history is. i’m american so it’s not as if i don’t share in some national guilt from our own actions. it’s just crazy seeing what happened in japans history
@asianmaddness56 he tried but the Japanese government won't allow him.
I heard about these Korean men when I was in high-school in the 70s. They were known for their sadness and could be spotted on coastal cities gazing over the ocean towards Japan.
Politics and politicians care more about appearances than the suffering of innocent people due to their policies.
I hope Myoko found her father.
I hope there's a part 2😢 wishing for him to see his daughter ❤❤. I wish there is no war and people well live in peace..a lot of people suffering due to war..
He died in June 2018, they never met.
@@JaricDesannthanks for the update. That’s so sad but at least he got to talk to his daughter and had asked for forgiveness. I admire her for understanding her dad’s situation.
Very sad. @@JaricDesann
@@JaricDesannCan you explain
@@mscreationworks5787 someone in another comment provided an article. There is a lot of stigma in Japan about being…. Impure, a mixed ethnic or a foreigner and the daughter didn’t want to open that can of worms with her husband and children. So to my knowledge the family have no idea. It’s sad
My heart just got broken..... at least he get to speak to her.
Such a painful memories !! Hard to live with that for 60 Years. I pray and hopeful one day Father & Daughter meet and forget the past and have a wonderful future wherever they stay 🙂 Thanks K-Doc for the documentary. Love from India 🙂
Sadly he died June 2018 before they could meet
@@caropapa Oh ! R I P
@@caropapaNo. 😢😢😢
What a strong wonderful man who really should meet his daughter Myoko as soon as possible. Hurry up Myoko, your dear father doesn’t have a long life to wait. Please meet him before it’s too late. It was wonderful that you saw the newspaper article that this kind journalist put in hoping to connect the two of you. Now it’s all up to you. Wishing you well and a good visit with the wonderful father you lost when you were so small.❤❤❤
Another subscriber looked it all up and sadly he died June 2018 before he and daughter could meet
Hope there will be a second part of this, the meeting of Father and daughter. Hope and pray he will have a longer life still to unite with his family he'd been missing for long. Take care and God bless, until then see you all as a Happy in the next series or vlog.
Happy family, supposed to be.
She waited too long and he is to of reportedly passed.
I had to hold back my tears. it's so touching. Love knows no boundaries and lasts forever...
For those saying if they were able to eventually meet, yes dad and Miyoko met in Hapcheon. This aired in 2013 btw.
Is there a follow up video of their reunion?
The ending just said they will meet, but it looks like they actually didn't. He passed in June 2018
apparently they didnt (some people say)
He already was in pain, & It gave a new wound & fresh stabbing pain when she indirectly refused to meet him saying "the time was not right" and she hadn't revealed about having found her father to her family.
He had understood and known in his heart that she doesn't want to meet him , never consider his yearning.
The way he wept and walked back feeling lost and failed..
It really saddens me.
May his soul find peace and solace, if he hasn't been reborn yet, and also in his next life joy,love and happiness 🙏
Well put. 🙂
She better hurry up and make a meet up, he's not gonna live forever.
There is a context that you are not getting. Japanese marry Japanese. The mother not telling her daughter that she was Korean by 1/2 was to protect her so she could marry and have a family. The Korean father would have known this. He would also understand the difficulty that this no place the daughter. What was more important is the tone of the daughters voice it had given her great pleasure to know that she was not abandon by her father and that all these years she was thought of and loved. And on his part he know's her life is well. What more could he ask when he himself moved on and had his own family with joys, sorrows and accomplishments.
I hope Miyoko and her father meet soon, no one’s fault but the human history sometimes carry people to place they don’t wish to go
Thanks to that reporter it became as good a reunion as possible after sixty years finally. So sad that loved ones and families end up torn apart by the callous indifference of so called leadership authorities. Shame on those who choose to be coldly indifferent. Namaste. Carpe Diem.
This story hit me hard. My mother shared the same birthday as this mans daughter, and I recently found out the man I thought was my granddad wasn't. The father of my mother was in Irish man who abandoned my pregnant grandmother and as no-one ever mentioned until after she was dead, now I don't even know his name.
I hate secrets!
You can make dna test, there's several companies doing this by mail and give results online, maybe you'll find other family members
@medeacassandralogos Yes, I've started on that, using one of them. I think I need to do a few of the others to, for best chances of hits. I also have a complicated paternal family tree also so finding out the facts of who is relatedto whom is proving tricky, lol.
Thanks for your kind thoughts and words. 💞
@@mstmy7082 Good luck 🍀🤞🏼
Hope his daughter meets him soon. What a sad story.
She better hurry up, time ain't waiting for no one.
@@suhtangwong You got that right.
they truly didn’t know the outcome. they had courage. those two countries punished each other and the citizens were the fallout. just tragic.
is there no more update on this documentary?the daughter should make his effort to meet his old father,she should sacrifice her time for her father a father is only one you can't exchange your father
Miyoko just want to hear her father voice and knowing he still alive after many century past..
She dont have a courage to tell her husband and kids that she have Korean blood by fear the after effect telling the truth..
Many years has passed and Miyoko grown up living with her mother until she died and married and have a kids..
She dont have father around her and she already grown to that fact that nothing will change if she meet again her biological father..
Hurt for the father to think her beloved daughter still alive waiting for him but in the end the daughter still have a life she have to protect from an unknown father..
Sad..
Finally someone who understands. To have Korean blood in Japan was shameful (many K were war slaves or workers forcibly brought over) , and they were discriminated against. Most 2nd and 3rd generation Koreans took on Japanese names and pretended to be Japanese. So this would be huge news for Myoko husband and children. Likely she will have to choose her family’s well being over her unknown father.
Yes, this is something that non Asians do not understand. I had Filipino friends who were part Japanese, but would not tell anyone about it for fear of being looked down upon by the folks in their town. The relationship between the local women and the Japanese soldiers during the war was not necessarily consensual most of the time. It is awful that the victims are the ones feeling the "shame" as if they're tainted or something along that line.
What kind of bs story.... Everything this man went thru and at the end his daughter basically says.... Maybe someday..... This man doesn't have a someday!!!
I am sure they are reunited or in contact after the call connection, since this is from 2013 documentary.
It was in those days political situation that separated them apart, not because he wanted to leave them.
I hope there is an update from this 2013 documentary
He died in June 2018 and they never met.
As to whether she disclosed the matter to her husband and children - I couldn’t say.
How nice of that reporter who took interest about the old man looking for his family. I hope he contacts the old man again to check if the father and daughter are able to meet.
I feel very sad for Kimiko (his first wife) 😢
1412Bunny....yes! I wouldn't go to war leaving behind my wife, a young baby daughter and a new born son! Fuck War!!
But then again who am I to judge???
Yes Kimiko was paid an unnecessary heavy burden by that stubborn young man that took him 60yrs later to realizethe consequences of what he did.....so heart breaking!
So sad every war has ruined many people lives 😢
It blows my mind that being half korean is still taboo or shameful for Miyoko in today's Japanese society? She can't be honest to her husband or children? What kind of fake relationship is that？so sad she didn't wanna meet him and was just lying about not being resdy
The discrimination in Japanese society is terrible!
That’s Japan
This is not a recent video. This video was aired back in 2013. And did you watch until the end?
I live in Japan and so many half Korean people are openly so and many celebrities too. I think it’s all in the daughter’s head
even people who are mixed race japanese aren’t considered true japanese. i don’t know why.
Mr Kim story is so sad made me cry, sometimes the regret eats a you, the only silver lining is that at least he knows the end story, he had a son that died and a Wife that raised his daughter who is still alive, and he knows he has grandchildren, sometimes just knowing that is all you get. I hope she didn't wait long to meet him.
This lovely lovely man poor thing it wasn't his fault 😢
So much sadness and pain he carries around. I do hope his daughter goes to visit him sooner rather than later
Beautiful story.
Wow... that was powerful. Lives are forever changed when politics are involved. I'm both happy and sad for the elder statesman. Ultimately, though, I'm happy for him.
Not to be pessimistic, but living in Japan and knowing Japanese, I doubt the daughter will visit him one day, especially after hearing what she told him.
Their nation’s history is so sad 😢 even until today
I wish to tell him that staying in Korea is the best because he will be treated differently in Japan. Koreans are more genuine and welcoming because they’ve been through a lot of hardship and it’s a good country. He has a lovely wife and a son with him in Korea. I hope he will not drown himself in guilt and start to let go. I hope his daughter will meet him someday and not wait too long.
glad to know that he found his daughter
I'm not sure but the Japanese had no problem before waging war with China. And I thought in the early 50's America still had some say. I thought that even some Japanese were involved with fighting against Communism pushes. However it was basically an American war.
It's tragic for the old Mr. Kim to have been involuntarily separated from his baby. I feel I know his heart, as a father. But I had good fortune to be able to raise my daughter and I love my daughter dearly. But I have to say this. My deep love for my daughter is through my being able to spend time and care for my daughter and develop deep bond, not just because she is my biological daughter. If I was in Mr. Kim's shoes, I would not have tried to find my lost daughtert lost at 3 years old and separated by 60+ years. It's too far in the past and you don't know who your daughter turned out to become. For his efforts, Mr. Kim was rewarded with fresh wound and tragedy of losing his daughter again.
u are a great Warrior Mr Kim. Salute😢💪
RIP Kimiko and son 🙏🏻😢
Such a sad story. I too wish the daughter had taken time to meet him.
The daughter sounds nice but what is she doing keeping her father waiting, he's old and could die soon. Like why keep it a secret from her family. Like the situation was not their fault. Smh.
Couldn’t the wife move to do Korea instead? Could he write to her and try to get her to fly to so Korea? Seems other than give up. Something could have been done.
That is horrible. I pray you get to see your two children and your wife.
watch till the end......
only in heaven sadly. i hope this man is at peace.
@@schoolinJOO did you watch till the end? They did meet.