Writer So Jae-won: "I've seen descendants proudly boast about their pro-Japanese ancestors"...Ha Young sharply criticizes

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While actor Ha Young acknowledged that her great-great-grandfather, physician Ahn Sang-ho, engaged in pro-Japanese activities during the Japanese colonial period, writer So Jae-won delivered a sharp rebuke.

Writer So, the original author of films such as "The Bastards" and "Wish," shared an article on her SNS on the 10th stating, "I read a bitter article ahead of Liberation Day." The article revealed that Ha Young's great-great-grandfather was Ahn Sang-ho, a physician with pro-Japanese activities.

Writer So stated, "It has now become a world where even ancestors with pro-Japanese activities are considered something to boast about. To think I would have to witness descendants proudly boasting about their pro-Japanese ancestors—this must be because our history failed to purge pro-Japanese collaborators. If history had purged pro-Japanese collaboration, could descendants have spoken such words so boldly? Perhaps we will have to teach children the law of success and glory through dirty treason in the future."

Writer So further posted a satirical piece expressing her despondent state of mind. She wrote, "My son! If we ever lose our country again, you must become a traitor! Use that position to thrust swords and guns at those trying to reclaim the nation, persecute them, and accumulate wealth. What if we regain the country later? Don't worry. We learned from history during the Japanese colonial period that history repeats itself. In such cases, simply use the stolen property to gain power. Power will protect you, and it will extend its hand first for symbiosis with you." She pointed out the current trend where descendants of pro-Japanese collaborators live so boldly.

She continued, "My son! Do you truly wish for this kind of repetition of history that I spoke of? Do you want to live generation after generation witnessing a descendant of a pro-Japanese collaborator proudly boasting about their family's past? If not, it must be changed now. Only when descendants who collaborated with Japan feel shame and create a present where descendants of independence fighters stand proud can we finally be dignified before history and before the great independence fighters and their descendants."

She added, "It may be too late, but there is still something to be done. If we change things now, that changed today will be recorded as history. I am not generous enough to live while watching a descendant of a pro-Japanese collaborator boast! Let us leave behind a precedent where treason is purged, so that descendants who boast about treason know shame and disgrace."

Previously, Ha Young mentioned her family background while appearing on KBS 2TV's variety program "Problem Children Are Here," introducing her family as a "fourth-generation physician household."

At the time, she stated, "As far as I remember, my great-great-grandfather was one of the first to open Jeon Mun (Rep.) in Hanyang at that time. After studying medicine in Japan, he opened the first Yang (Rep.) in Hanyang and treated patients with Ko Jong (황제)."

Later, when it became known that Ha Young's great-great-grandfather was Ahn Sang-ho, a physician active during the Japanese colonial period, raising suspicions of pro-Japanese collaboration, her agency Vistars Entertainment stated on the 10th, "It is true that Ha Young's great-great-grandfather is Ahn Sang-ho," but drew a line regarding his pro-Japanese activities by saying, "There are parts that differ from the facts."

However, the following day on the 11th, they issued an official statement: "Upon further verification, we confirmed that records actually exist showing that our great-great-grandfather, Mr. Ahn Sang-ho, was listed as a councilor in the 1916 Daetong Friendship Association," thereby acknowledging the pro-Japanese suspicions and offering an apology.

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