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AbaiVillage
ⓒNaver
AbaiVillage
InternallyDisplacedPerson(IDP)
TheGaetbaeBoat
CurrentStateofIDPsinSouthKorea
of
Korea
Unification
Under-59s6.1%
of
EastSea
Republic
Over-90s
60to69
of
19.6%
8.4%
ⓒMinistry
CheongchoLake
the
TheSurvivor
TheDead
70to79
22.9%
60,513
70,687
80to89
43%
Located in Cheongho-dong, the city of Sokcho, Gangwon
Province, Abai Village is now the hometown to many people
?131,200haveregisteredasIDPssince1988
ofNorthKoreanancestrywhowereseparatedfromtheirhome
IDP refers to someone who has experienced forced
and families during the Korean War, according to the official
displacementandcannotgobacktohisorherhomewithinthe
site of Abai Village. The word “Abai” comes from the dialect
same country. The International Organization for Migration
ofHamgyeongProvince,oneoftheprovincesofNorthKorea,
definesaforcedmigrantasanypersonwhomigratestoescape
meaning“anoldman”or“afamilyleader,”asalargenumber
persecution, conflict, repression, natural and human made
of elderly people fled to Cheongho-dong from North Korea
disasters, ecological degradation, or other situations that
duringthewar.
endangertheirlivesorfreedom.
Abai Village, which has a narrow strip of land between
According to the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, the term
Cheongcho-ho,thelakethatissurroundedbythetwovillages,
generally denotes the refugees who can no longer visit their
and the East Sea, got its reputation as a residential area for
hometown due to the outbreak of the Korean War (1950-1953)
NorthKoreanrefugees,andisoneofthenumberoneplacesto
andthedivisionoftheKoreanPeninsula.
visitamongtourists.
AbaiVillageofthePast
TheGaetbaeBoat
TheGaetbaeBoatisoperatedbyamanandpassengersusing
Visiting Abai Village required a keen eye to catch every
a metal hooked stick to pull the boat along and make it move
details of the lives of IDPs. Having been accompanied by Lee
across the lake, which generally takes less than two minutes,
Seung-san, a culture tour guide of Sokcho, The Argus looked
asitis50metersawayfrombothdocks.TheAbaiVillagewas
aroundforplacesthatindicatedthetragedyoftheKoreanWar
full of visitors on vacation waiting for the Gaetbae Boat to
and moved on to visit the people of Abai Village to see how
come.
IDPslivedwithover67yearsofseparation.
“I am a 1.5 generation IDP, and I arrived in South Korea
in my teens,” said Kim Sang-ho, a volunteer worker for the
Gaetbae Boat, whose hometown is Bukcheong County, South
Argus
Hamgyeong Province, North Korea. The 76-year-old man
Chae-un/The
added some more stories that he had witnessed back in the
KoreanWar.
According to Kim, the Gaetbae Boat, in fact, had a very sad
ⓒMoon
story. Kim saw a lot of Abais for whom much in their life
was traumatic. They had begun a new life in Cheongho-dong
while their family was still in North Korea since it was nearly
impossibleforthemtogobacktowheretheyhadbelonged.To
earnaliving,theyneededtogodowntown,forwhichtakingthe
Gaetbae Boat was a must. Born around the early 1900s, they
spentmostoftheirlifemissingthosethattheycouldnotseeany
▲The Gaetbae Boat is a man-powered orange-colored raft made of tires and
wood that connects Abai Village to Joongang-dong in downtown Sokcho.
longerwhiletakingtheboatfortheirfamilyintheSouth.
Twoboatsarenowupandrunning.
SEP 2017
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