When I accidentally discovered the diaries of my late granduncle, who was mentally disturbed, I learnt about my family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province where my mother's family lived was nursing the wounds of class conflict, ideological conflict, and the scattering of family members between South and North Korea and in Japan. It turned out that the history of my family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, which I had only known from textbooks. (KOFIC)