Chʻoe Ha-un was born in 1963 and came to Japan from South Korea in 1990 after getting married. She describes how she started taking Japanese classes at the YMCA and was introduced to people involved in an Asian Sociology seminar where she became interested in the comfort women issue. She talks about her life in Japan and her family, including her children, getting divorced after living in Japan for 10 years, and working at a nursing home. She volunteers for a community organization that supports Korean hibakusha and provides accounting, translation, and interpretation services for the group. She discusses her activities as an interpreter and offers her opinions concerning the bombing. She also talks about issues surrounding Korean hibakusha, including both those who stayed in Japan and those who returned to Korea.
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