KNCC / WCC : "Light of Peace" 1. März - 15. August 2020
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/get-involved/light-of-peace
A Moment of Forgiveness and a Moment of Grace
Dr. David Suh (Dr. Suh, Kwang Sun)
"Forty years ago, when Gwangju became a city of slaughter at the hands of the military dictatorship martial law forces, our God was present bleeding with Gwangju citizens at the site of the shooting where the bullets of the martial law army fell upon the citizens like rain. Thank you for being present at the sickbed of the injured seeking treatment and among the medical staff tending to the fallen at that time. I believe that God has remained with my children, the apple of my eye, and the bereaved families who lost their loved ones, who have suffered bitterness and sickness for the past 40 years, and I thank God for that.Forty years ago, when Gwangju became a city of slaughter at the hands of the military dictatorship martial law forces, our God was present bleeding with Gwangju citizens at the site of the shooting where the bullets of the martial law army fell upon the citizens like rain. Thank you for being present at the sickbed of the injured seeking treatment and among the medical staff tending to the fallen at that time. I believe that God has remained with my children, the apple of my eye, and the bereaved families who lost their loved ones, who have suffered bitterness and sickness for the past 40 years, and I thank God for that.As the blood of that month of May was never shed in vain,...."His father refused, becoming an enemy of the KCF. Thus, the police of North Korea took a negative interest in his father's outspokenness. Eventually they moved further south toward Pyongyang. Five years after Japan surrendered Korea to the Soviet Union and the United States, war flared up again in June of 1950. Soon after the war began, Dr. Suh's father went missing. While wondering who might have taken his father and what they might have done to him, Dr. Suh also had to worry about being picked up by the North Korean army himself and taken to fight in the war, since he was 19 years old in 1950. He and his younger brother would hide in a hole in the floor of his house. His ability to hide did not last forever; however, the kindness of a stranger saved him from likely death on the battlefield. ..."