As far as stuff that happened with Dave's dad, that's actually not that uncommon in Japan, especially since after Japan withdrew from the country, many Koreans were never repatriated (especially the scholars, engineers, and artists who were all relocated by force) and so there are generations of people living in Japan who're racially Korean but culturally Japanese who're finding out about it in their adulthood.
I went to college with a girl like that. She's racially Korean but was born in Japan, grew up in Japan, thinks of herself as Japanese, and she had a major identity meltdown because she found out that she was Korean and that her grandmother was still in Korea.
Another part of it is that during that time, a lot of Koreans also fled to Manchuria. So there are also generations of people living in China who're Korean or a lot of Koreans who were born in China but repatriated after the Japanese withdrew.
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Date: 2011-05-05 04:08 am (UTC)I went to college with a girl like that. She's racially Korean but was born in Japan, grew up in Japan, thinks of herself as Japanese, and she had a major identity meltdown because she found out that she was Korean and that her grandmother was still in Korea.
Another part of it is that during that time, a lot of Koreans also fled to Manchuria. So there are also generations of people living in China who're Korean or a lot of Koreans who were born in China but repatriated after the Japanese withdrew.