David Soon Ho Kwon was born in 1936 in Kyoto, Japan, to a mother who worked as an assistant for a Japanese aristocrat. From his early childhood years, he recalls the day-to-day discrimination faced by Koreans living in Japan, from being denied healthcare at the hospital, to being the first medics which the Japanese Empire shipped off to serve in the treacherous Pacific front.

Born in Korea during the Japanese occupation, Reverend Chang Soon Lee reflects on a life shaped by faith, displacement, and pastoral care amid the upheavals of colonial rule, war, and migration.

Born in 1938 in the countryside of Icheon, Korea, In Sook reflects on a childhood marked by both natural beauty and the disruptions of war.

Jae Hee Jun was born in a small rural village in South Chungcheong Province called Mongiya shortly before the outbreak of the Korean War.

Gil Sung Jun was born in 1947 in South Hamgyong. When he was only two years old, his father, an underground resistance leader, was captured and killed by North Korean secret police.

Vana Kim is a writer and activist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Seoul, Korea in 1946, her earliest memories are of the Korean War; when Seoul was bombed, her family sought refuge first in a mountain village—a distinctly healing, spiritual experience—and later in Busan for the duration of the conflict.