{"id":46,"date":"2019-02-20T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trostfrauen.museum\/en\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:51:34","slug":"bae-chun-hui","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trostfrauen.museum\/en\/face-to-face\/bae-chun-hui\/","title":{"rendered":"Bae Chun-hui"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bae Chun-hui (1923 – 2014)
born in Seongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Bae-Chun-hui\"

\u00a9 Tsukasa Yajima
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In 1942, at the age of eighteen, one day when she was spending time with her friend Bongsun, she heard about a local recruitment for the Women\u2019s Voluntary Labor Corps.  There she was told she could earn money, but not that she would be forced into sex work, and so she and Bongsun volunteered together. But she was taken to Manchuria, and forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military.  After the end of the war, she was unable to return directly to Korea, and after remaining for six years in now-Chinese Manchuria, she crossed to Japan in 1951.  She remained there for just over thirty years and returned to Korea in 1981. She lived at the House of Sharing and passed away in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bae Chunhui, who was a cabaret singer in Japan, always sings like a professional; at the House of Sharing, she is considered an artist.  Grandmother Bae, who doesn\u2019t open her heart easily to others, falls quickly and deeply for animals and children.  She loves melodramatic songs and movies and romantic content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her song, \u201cDance Song of Youth,\u201d was originally a Chinese folksong, but it was sung by the female lead of the Chinese melodramatic film Susanna (1967), which made a hit and is well known throughout Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dance Music of Youth (1938)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chinese folk tune adapted and arranged by Wang Luo-bin
Korean\/Chinese version 1970 (translated by Kim Hak-song)
Vocals: Li Ching and Jeong Hun-hui<\/p>\n\n\n\n