“Elderly Gwija waited 70 years after being separated from husband and son during Korean War.”
The Waiting
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Elderly Gwija waited 70 years after being separated from husband and son during Korean War.
The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can't stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
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A Manhwa Publication
- Format 10 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 20m approx
- Published Sep 2020 – ongoing
- Source Manhwa media type
- Ref. BS-M60527 catalog