Episode 11: White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, Haenyeo and Comfort Women

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Korea 1943 Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation As a haenyeo a female diver of the sea she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim Until the day Hana saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria There she is forced to become a comfort woman in a Japanese military brothel But haenyeo are women of power and strength She will find her way homeSouth Korea 2011 Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made but she must confront the past to discover peace Seeing the healing of her children and her country can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness