Once upon a time, there was a peaceful country called Korea in Asia.
However, greedy neighboring countries such as Japan and China didn't leave it alone.
They invaded and destroyed it a lot. Especially, Japan made Korea its colony and ruled it for over 35 years.
The period was the worst one to Koreans. At that time, many Koreans were killed, tortured and victimized by Japan soldiers, which couldn't be expressed in a word. What is the worst of the things which Japan did is that it tried to get rid of the identity of Koreans. So it spread their culture, and forced Koreans to change their names into Japanese, and to learn Japanese, not Korean. During Japanese colonial rule, our Koreans fought against Japan to gain independence.
In the end,
Korea accomplished its independence, however, before it enjoys pleasure of independence, it was divided into two countries by strong nations such as Soviet Union(Russia), America, and England. North Korea became a communist country and South Korea did a democratic country. That is, Korea became a victim of ideology which we Koreans didn't know at all.