Meanwhile, Mozasu builds a family with Yumi their son is Solomon. Sunja does not attend the funeral, so Noa’s wife and children never learn of Noa’s Korean family. Noa promises to do so, but when she leaves, he kills himself. When Hansu is finally able to locate Noa and brings Sunja to him, she embraces him, wanting him to come home and reunite with his family. She tells Mozasu that Noa dropped out of school because it was too hard for him, but Mozasu finds this hard to believe. He does not reach out to his family, and they are heartbroken, especially Sunja. In Book 3, “Pachinko 1962-1989,” Noa finds a job in Nagano and soon builds a successful career in the pachinko industry. Noa tells no one that he is Korean, instead passing for Japanese. He drops out of the university and moves to another city, refusing to tell his family where he is. Meanwhile, Noa’s fortunes take a dramatic turn when he finds out Hansu is his father. Once he has a job, he is very hard-working and becomes successful. Mozasu, who hates school and gets into fights, drops out of school to work in the pachinko gambling parlors. The story then begins to shift to the brothers. But the cost of university is too high, and Hansu does pay for all of Noa’s tuition, room, and fees. When the family moves back to Osaka after the war, Sunja resists Hansu’s efforts to pay for Noa’s education, since she worries about Hansu having influence over her son’s life. Hansu is also able to bring Yangjin from Korea, and the mother and daughter reunite. When they finally reunite, he tells Sunja to move the family to the countryside so they can escape the bombing that he knows is coming and will end the war. She has no idea that her job has been created by Hansu, who has learned of her circumstances. Sunja must learn to make money by selling kimchi in the market later, she gets a job working at the restaurant. Life dramatically changes for the family. In Book 2, “Motherland 1939-1962,” Noa is 6 years old when Isak is arrested for his religious practices.
Yoseb warns his brother to be very careful. They are discriminated against both at home and abroad. Korea’s colonial status creates great hardship for Koreans. When Sunja and Isak move to Osaka, Japan, they are welcomed by Isak’s brother, Yoseb, and his wife, Kyunghee. He has lived much of his life as an invalid, and even though he thinks he may die young and leave Sunja a young widow, he wants to do something meaningful with his life by giving the family a chance for a life without ostracism. When Sunja is seduced by a local businessman, Koh Hansu, and becomes pregnant, her mother doesn’t know what to do until one of her boarders, Baek Isak, a Presbyterian minister traveling to Japan, offers to marry Sunja.
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