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What was the situation like for ordinary citizens when liberation came in 1945?
Reporter Lee Ju-sang introduces some new books worth reading this week.
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[Facing History / Kim Sung-chil / Changbi]
"Facing History" vividly reconstructs the joy and confusion, anticipation and anxiety of people who welcomed liberation in 1945.
A historian living in Bongyang-myeon, Jecheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do recorded the image of the liberated homeland experienced through personal daily life and emotions with a cold gaze and delicate sentences.
The joy of liberation was short-lived, followed by soaring prices and political confusion, highlighting the historian's observation and reflection.
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[Mothers Who Are Not Mothers / Kim Ho-soo / Geulhangari]
"Mothers Who Are Not Mothers" examines the issue of overseas adoption from a social and structural perspective.
In the early days of overseas adoption, which were often defined by camptowns, single mothers, or poverty, the starting point was frequently the spouse's neglect and violence.
The concept of the "biological mother" was created, where adoption was sometimes decided even before birth, showing that overseas adoption existed as a social system.
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[How Time Flows for Sick Animals / Renée Alsarraf / RHK]
"How Time Flows for Sick Animals" explores the emotions of relationships newly felt by a veterinarian who treated animal cancer when she received a cancer diagnosis herself.
The author, momentarily taken aback by the question of a man in his 60s trying to gauge the time remaining for his dog and himself, realizes the deep bond between humans and animals.
She objectifies the cancer that befell her by calling it "the disease named C" and reflects on life with her companion animal.
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[The Moment of Hearing the Universe's Language / Oh Jung-geun / Book and Wind]
The trembling of spacetime, gravitational waves.
And Einstein's hypothesis proven 100 years later, "The Moment of Hearing the Universe's Language".
Measuring gravitational waves filling the spacetime around stars in the night sky has been a task for physicists since Einstein's prediction.
It calmly traces the principles of gravitational waves, the first discovery in 2016, and the ongoing flow of research.
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