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▲ThealleysinAbaiVillagearetoonarrowtooeasilypassthrough.
▲Theboatismooredoffshore.
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▲Tens of thousands of shacks were made in 1950s with the inrush of North Korean refugees. Only a few
▲Twofishermen,whoarebasedinAbaiVillage,are
arepreservedtoday.
tidyingupafishingnet.
Justafewshortblocksawayfromthedock,TheArgusfound
said that it was a place where they got over the rough times
someoftheresidentsneateningafishingnet.TheArgusstood
and strengthened the ties between themselves and the other
up and watched them for a long time do the work that their
refugees.
ancestorsmighthavedoneseveraldecadesagoaswell.
Kim Song-soon, a first generation IDP who originally came
from Bukcheong County, South Hamgyeong Province, North
Korea,said“AbaiVillagehadmorethan20,000residentswho
Shacksandalleys
Sokcho was a small city before the inflow of North Korean
camefromalloverHamgyeongProvince.Needlesstosay,this
refugees, and Abai Village in particular, was set up on the
groupofpeoplecreatedafriendly,welcomingcommunityand
harsh and barren sandbank. The reason a multitude of North
a special way of life by making the alleys narrow.” According
Korean refugees came to live in Cheongho-dong village was
toKim,theygottogetherforamealandforadrinksometimes,
the hope to return home as soon as possible, since it was near
andthealleyenabledthemtocreateabond.
the border with North Korea. They made shacks with a loose
slateroofsothattheycouldleavethisplacewheneverthewar
Offtheshore
begantoend,butnobodyknewthatitwouldtakeaneternityto
The seashore lies spread out before the eyes of The Argus
headbackhome.
after coming out of alleys. The majority of the IDPs in the
As time has passed, shacks from the 1950s do not remain
1950s and 60s worked in the fishing industry, and they used
intact anymore, but The Argus discovered some of the spots
EastSeaasamainsourceofliving.
where shacks used to be, which empathizes the North Korean
The leader Kim, looked back on the past, noting that it was
refugees’lossfortheirhometown.
not a rare sight to see pollock, squid, and sailfin sandfish air-
When passing by the alleys, The Argus heard that residents
dried on the roof of every house or empty building. Abais
in Abai Village still spoke with a broad Hamgyeong Province
wouldgatherseaweedwhenthewindblewoverthesea.Then,
accent, which got The Argus thinking that the division of the
an Amai, the term that refers to an old woman in Hamgyeong
KoreanPeninsulaisstillongoing.
Province,wenttothemarketandsoldthem.“Ijustsoldthemat
“Iwanderedalltheneighborhoodstobegforamealattheage
themarket,”saidKimwhoisafirstgenerationIDP.
of 12 when I came here,” said Kim Jin-guk, who is also a 1.5
However, what they thought to be natural in the past is
generationIDPandthepresidentoftheCheongho-dongBranch
unusual nowadays. Fish are now getting scarce, and there are
oftheKoreanSeniorCitizensAssociation.
increasing numbers of raw fish centers and fish factories that
The alleys of Cheongho-dong village are narrower than
havesprungupnearthedocks.
any other alleys in Korea. Residents living in Abai Village
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