
Hokkaido Agony Song
- Title
- Hokkaido Agony Song (Bookhaedo Gorakga)
- As Known As
- 北海道 苦樂歌
- Age/Year
- Japan Occupation Period (1910-1945)
- Dimensions
- Width 12.6 Length 18.0
- Classification
A 4 syllable lyric formatted written by Kang Sam-sul, who was mobilized to the Mitsubishi Mining Company’s mining station in Ooyubari on December 2, 1942. The It describes the circumstances when he was forcibly mobilized from Yechon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the routes he was brought on, assigned working field’s the surroundings fields he was assigned to work in, and the living conditions in the coal mine, & etc., in detail. Besides this, it poetically portrays his lonely & painful mental state at the station field he was mobilized to.