Holt Adoption Agency placed many Korean orphans in American homes. Many families were split up and scattered during the war.
After the Korean War, Korea was literally in rubble and ashes. Whatever remained standing or fertile were bombed or burned up. Immediately after WWII, after Japan exhausted all of Korea's natural resources, goods and men to fuel their war engines, Korean War broke. My mother now in her 80's experienced many of the same experiences and some additional events in her lifetime: the Japanese occupation (1910- 1945), her 11 -year old classmates being shipped off by Japanese as wartime prostitutes during WWII (1939-1945), Korean independence (1948), Korean War (1950-1953) during which time she was a refugee in Busan, etc. I like to recommend those critics to read about the 20th century Korean history. WoI feel compelled to disagree with some of the criticisms that this movie tried to be melodramatic, some scenes were unnecessarily too comical, and that it was improbable and unrealistic for a person to go through all such tumultuous events.
