Sookan, who is now fifteen, is becoming older. And with age, comes responsibility. Her mother always tells her not to mess up or people will say things hurtful comments. They will say "she [Sookan] is like that because she doesn't have a father or older brothers." At school, Sookan joins a singing group, there she meets Junho. Junho is quiet and collected, he's also very smart. Junho and Sookan instantly become "everlasting friends". Thinking about her future, Sookan decides she wants to study in the States. When the time comes for her to start packing for the States, Junho can't bear with Sookan leaving, so he tells her to meet him at a photography studio so they can take there picture together and keep it as a memory. Sookan knows this would get her mother upset because a young girl isn't supposed to take her picture with a boy. But she goes anyway. In the end, when it is time for to Sookan go to the States, she goes to look for Junho to say good-bye, but he is nowhere to be found. She then thinks it's better that way, to not say good-bye, to keep their every-lasting friendship.
3.5. Set in South Korea in the 1950s, Sookan and her mother and younger brother are living in a refugee camp in Pusan on the top of a mountain, separated from her father and older brothers. Sookan adjusts to life, making friends and developing a crush on a boy from a prominent family. I was enthralled by the first half of the story and realized (rather embarrassingly) that I do not have much knowledge of Korean history, but the second half seemed to speed along too quickly through the years and the dialogue felt a little stilted.
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Sookan, a fifteen years old girl who lives in Pusan, Korea, a refugee. She got separation from her father and brothers because of civil war, she didn't get any information from them, but Sookan and her mother hope they can go home every day and her mom write down the information about her father and her brothers and post them on the board of refugee information center, hope can get additional clues about them. In school, she got to know a boy, Junho. Junho is very nice to her. But last, she go to US. Their departure let both of them sad, but finally she didn't tell him she was leaving. Perhaps, she wants to keep their friendship. After rain comes fair sunshine, all things will be better, please close your eyes, to enjoy this wonderful moment.
—Ling Fang Ye
