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Wife of Independence Fighter Revives Forgotten Army Songs
By Kim Cheong-won
Staff Reporter
Kwak Young-sook shows the first music book and CDs of the Kwangbokkun army songs, titled ¡°An Echo of Independence,¡¯¡¯ at her house in Ilsan, Kyonggi Province. / Korea Times Photo by Kim Hyun-tae
Kwak Young-sook recalls when she and her husband, Park No-il, protested against Japan's World War II atrocities in front of the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul in 1974 with other members of the Korean Liberation Association and their families.
During a rally against then Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's remarks, which justified Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula, none of the members could finish singing one of the famous army songs, `` The March Song of Amnok (Yallu) River.''
The song used to be loved by ``kwangbokkun,'' an army of Korean volunteers organized in China in 1940 to fight for the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule.
Since then, Kwak and her husband went to every corner of the country to collect the army songs and write them down to music. She collected the songs as a way to restore the country's forgotten history.
``I was totally shocked. No one could remember the entire song. I thought I must do something about it," Kwak said in an interview with The Korea Times.
``I strongly believe that restoring the army songs is restoring the nation's spirit and our history," she added.
In 1974, Kwak and Park took the first step toward the revival of the songs by setting up the ``Tongnipkunga Pojonhoi," the association of preservation of the independent army songs (www. www.doklipkunga.co.kr).
Tracing the forgotten memory, however, wasn't easy. Most of the veterans' memories about the songs were dim and they mumbled the songs rather than singing them.
``You cannot call what they sang songs. It was just mumbling without a clear melody," the 82-year-old said.
Even if she managed to record them and write them down to music, the tunes and the lyrics with the same title were sometimes different.
``The army songs were sung by soldiers across disparate areas in Manchuria and were taught to others in an oral tradition. That's why the contents are somewhat different, even if they are the same songs," she explained.
After a painstaking process, she saw her efforts rewarded in 1975, releasing the first long-playing record (LP) of kwangbokkun army songs.
``I was so happy to see the LP. Although only six songs were recorded, it was meaningful because it was our first tangible result,'' she said with smile.
Her joy, however, didn't last long. The next year, her husband, also one of the kwangbokkun members during Japanese colonial time, passed away of a heart attack at the age of 54.
Nevertheless, she didn't stop the project.
It took almost a decade to publish the kwangbokkun army songs in a music book. With a total of 192 songs, the first book, titled ``An Echo of Independence," was published in 1982.
``Half of the songs were sung by the kwangbokkun in Manchuria and the rest of them were shared by other independent fighters on the Korean Peninsula," she said.
Not satisfied with just publishing a music book, she set another goal _ listing the songs in a school music book.
Since 1982, she had persuaded many related organizations, such as the Ministry of Education and the presidential office, to list some of the songs. But she did not receive a reply until 1996.
And in 1997, one of the army songs, ``Apuro Haengjingok (Marching Song)," was included in an elementary school music book for the first time.
``I could not express how happy I was upon hearing the news. It is a great achievement," she said.
Followed by that achievement, another song, `` The Marching Song of Amnok River," was also listed in another music book in 2003. She also made a 1,000-army song CD this May and distributed them to organizations and individuals for free.
``I am pretty old now and not sure how long I will live. But before I die, I would like to see more army songs listed in school music books. That's my last wish," she finally said.
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