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This photo is one Korean friends' middle school years.
(back row) The rightest is Yun Dong-ju. He was talented for literature and has been highly acclaimed at home. In university, he was arrested by Japanese Empire for writing poems of resistance. And was dead by medical experiment on a living body. It was 1945, only 6 months earlier than Empire's fall.
(back low) The leftest is Chang Chun-ha. He was drafted by Japanese Imperial Army but ran away to became Korean segregationist soldier. After Korean independence, he became a journalist. His periodical Sa-sang-ge("The System of Idea") triggered April revolution(1960). In 1975, while he planning unidentified conspiracy against dictator, was assassinated by unkown someone.
(back row) The center is Moon Ik-hwan. He became Presbyterian minister and took part in retranslation of Korean Bible in 1970s. After Chang(the leftest)'s dead, He devoted himself to movement for democracy. He died of a heart failure on January 18, 1994.
(front row) He is Chung Il-kwon. In 1940s, he joined the Manchu State(which was a puppet state of Japanese Empire) army and became military police captain. After Empire's fall, he transfered to Korean Nation's Army and distareged as full general. He cooperated President Park Jeong-hee, who was militant dictator. So he became the prime minister and the chairman of the national assembly. He died on Jenuary 17, 1994, almost same day of Moon(the center of back low).
This photo is more than only middle schooler friends' photo. This is an irony itself of modern Korean history.
  Support this photograph expresses that these schoolmates were all close each other during their middle school years, but their path of life became totally different. I think this picture depicts the historical irony well. -- Shyoon1 (talk) 21:33, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 2 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 19:10, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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