Father Ahn Jae-gu
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The road to independence, democracy, and unification is not over yet.
The story of two people who went beyond a father-son relationship to become comrades.
This is a biography of the late Professor Ahn Jae-gu, a mathematician and unification activist who was imprisoned for life under the title 'Nam Min-jeon'.
The author has compiled a series of articles he published in the Unification News every week for one year under the title “Father Ahn Jae-gu” starting in January 2024.
As a son, a comrade in the unification movement, and a junior warrior, I recorded the life and struggles of my father.
The book focuses on the events that occurred after Professor Ahn Jae-gu's memoir, "The Unfinished Road," which was published in 2013 and contains his childhood and youth.
The author completed a massive manuscript through arduous oral history with his father, who was gradually losing his memory due to dementia.
The events that marked turning points in the turbulent 80 years of modern history were brought to life in a three-dimensional way with vivid testimonies.
The author calmly and restrainedly portrays the suffering and hardships experienced by those who devoted themselves to the reform movement during those harsh times, as well as their families.
It is a compressed modern history that unfolds like a panorama, intertwining painful family history and national history, micro-history and macro-history.
The story of two people who went beyond a father-son relationship to become comrades.
This is a biography of the late Professor Ahn Jae-gu, a mathematician and unification activist who was imprisoned for life under the title 'Nam Min-jeon'.
The author has compiled a series of articles he published in the Unification News every week for one year under the title “Father Ahn Jae-gu” starting in January 2024.
As a son, a comrade in the unification movement, and a junior warrior, I recorded the life and struggles of my father.
The book focuses on the events that occurred after Professor Ahn Jae-gu's memoir, "The Unfinished Road," which was published in 2013 and contains his childhood and youth.
The author completed a massive manuscript through arduous oral history with his father, who was gradually losing his memory due to dementia.
The events that marked turning points in the turbulent 80 years of modern history were brought to life in a three-dimensional way with vivid testimonies.
The author calmly and restrainedly portrays the suffering and hardships experienced by those who devoted themselves to the reform movement during those harsh times, as well as their families.
It is a compressed modern history that unfolds like a panorama, intertwining painful family history and national history, micro-history and macro-history.
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A being like a green mountain that always publishes books
Prologue: The Prison of Oblivion
Chapter 1: Wife Jang Su-hyang
01 The person who sent me away without even saying sorry
02 The Unforgettable Disciple of a Husband
03 Chuseok, 1979, and the 'Namminjeon'
04 “An Jae-gu, death penalty!”
05 The World's Mathematicians' Rescue Movement
06 Pain greater than separation
07 Special 'Family Trip'
08 The prison doors finally open
09 'National Salvation Vanguard' and the Second Life Imprisonment
10 The cruel years that never end
Chapter 2 Grandfather Ahn Byeong-hee
01 Integrity and Integrity
02 The One Path of the Anti-Japanese Revolution
03 Fake Liberation
04 Reading Club and Poster Struggle
05 Expulsion and detention
06 Boy's Propaganda Squadron
07 Escape to maternal grandparents' house in Dodong
08 2.7 National Salvation Struggle and Entry into the Mountain
09 Completed officer training and became a 'repo'
10 The 'line' is broken and you are left alone
Becoming a 'baby teacher' at the age of 11
12 A nation torn apart by war
13 Final Instructions
Chapter 3 Kyungpook National University Department of Mathematics
01 Becoming a college student in the midst of war
02 Meeting a True Master of Academics
03 Professor Park Jeong-gi, a giant in Korean mathematics
04 Kyungpook National University Graduate School Mathematics Department
05 The Gyeongbuk Mathematical Journal that Saved My Father
06 I was kicked out of the podium where I had been for 18 years.
Chapter 4: Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam
01 April 19th, a turning point in my life
02 Teachers' Union and the May 16 Coup
03 Meeting a Lifelong 'Revolutionary Comrade'
04 6.3 Struggle and the First People's Revolutionary Party Incident
05 Introducing Yeo Jeong-nam through Lee Jae-moon
06 The Revolutionary Party Incident and Lee Jong's Brother-in-Law, Lee Mun-gyu
07 Waryongsan Goat Farm Hideout
08 'Retreat' or 'Advance'?
09 The Mincheonghakryeon and People's Revolutionary Party Reconstruction Committee Incident
10 Raising the anchor of the Namminjeon
11 Why was it a ‘front’ and not a ‘party’?
12 A brief heyday, followed by a crisis
13 The last moments of a life-or-death struggle
14 A star that fell on the land of the fatherland
15 Nam Min-jeon's path becomes reality
Chapter 5 Father and I
01 'The Red Rich Who Passed Away'
02 Math or Student Movement?
03 Those who threatened the father by taking his son as a 'hostage'
04 How was the National Salvation Front Incident fabricated?
05 Re-imposed 'spy' charges
The Minjok 21 Incident Ended in the NIS's Frantic Struggle
07 The Road That Never Ends
Epilogue: "Put it in your mouth"
Chronology
Prologue: The Prison of Oblivion
Chapter 1: Wife Jang Su-hyang
01 The person who sent me away without even saying sorry
02 The Unforgettable Disciple of a Husband
03 Chuseok, 1979, and the 'Namminjeon'
04 “An Jae-gu, death penalty!”
05 The World's Mathematicians' Rescue Movement
06 Pain greater than separation
07 Special 'Family Trip'
08 The prison doors finally open
09 'National Salvation Vanguard' and the Second Life Imprisonment
10 The cruel years that never end
Chapter 2 Grandfather Ahn Byeong-hee
01 Integrity and Integrity
02 The One Path of the Anti-Japanese Revolution
03 Fake Liberation
04 Reading Club and Poster Struggle
05 Expulsion and detention
06 Boy's Propaganda Squadron
07 Escape to maternal grandparents' house in Dodong
08 2.7 National Salvation Struggle and Entry into the Mountain
09 Completed officer training and became a 'repo'
10 The 'line' is broken and you are left alone
Becoming a 'baby teacher' at the age of 11
12 A nation torn apart by war
13 Final Instructions
Chapter 3 Kyungpook National University Department of Mathematics
01 Becoming a college student in the midst of war
02 Meeting a True Master of Academics
03 Professor Park Jeong-gi, a giant in Korean mathematics
04 Kyungpook National University Graduate School Mathematics Department
05 The Gyeongbuk Mathematical Journal that Saved My Father
06 I was kicked out of the podium where I had been for 18 years.
Chapter 4: Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam
01 April 19th, a turning point in my life
02 Teachers' Union and the May 16 Coup
03 Meeting a Lifelong 'Revolutionary Comrade'
04 6.3 Struggle and the First People's Revolutionary Party Incident
05 Introducing Yeo Jeong-nam through Lee Jae-moon
06 The Revolutionary Party Incident and Lee Jong's Brother-in-Law, Lee Mun-gyu
07 Waryongsan Goat Farm Hideout
08 'Retreat' or 'Advance'?
09 The Mincheonghakryeon and People's Revolutionary Party Reconstruction Committee Incident
10 Raising the anchor of the Namminjeon
11 Why was it a ‘front’ and not a ‘party’?
12 A brief heyday, followed by a crisis
13 The last moments of a life-or-death struggle
14 A star that fell on the land of the fatherland
15 Nam Min-jeon's path becomes reality
Chapter 5 Father and I
01 'The Red Rich Who Passed Away'
02 Math or Student Movement?
03 Those who threatened the father by taking his son as a 'hostage'
04 How was the National Salvation Front Incident fabricated?
05 Re-imposed 'spy' charges
The Minjok 21 Incident Ended in the NIS's Frantic Struggle
07 The Road That Never Ends
Epilogue: "Put it in your mouth"
Chronology
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As time passed, the four of us siblings gradually grew up.
(Omitted) It was a poor and lonely time when we had to live without a father, but looking back, we all lived bravely.
From prison, my father's densely packed postcards gave me strength, and the trips I took to see him every vacation brought me comfort.
--- From "Chapter 1: Wife Jang Su-hyang"
The liberation my father remembers was such an exciting world.
Liberation gave everyone hope for building a new nation.
For those who were oppressed and persecuted, liberation meant not only liberation from Japanese imperialism but also breaking free from feudal bondage and rising as the masters of a new country.
The country that my great-grandfather told my father about was a country where the Korean people were the masters, and a country where everyone was equal politically, economically, and socially.
--- From "Chapter 2 Grandfather Ahn Byeong-hee"
Whenever I look back on my father's life, I wonder how a person can use the time given to him so meticulously.
I thought that my father's day was 48 hours long, not 24.
(Omitted) What kind of beliefs and convictions can train oneself to that extent?
I learned from my father that humans are creatures who can elevate themselves to impossible heights if they have a firm goal and a clear ideology.
--- From "Chapter 3, Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University"
My father had many discussions with Mr. Lee Jae-moon about the nature and character of the southern reform movement.
My father believed that the reality facing our people was that the American military stationed in the South, with pro-Japanese collaborators at the forefront, trampled on the people's efforts to build an independent nation, and turned the South into a neocolony through war and division.
So, we saw the goal of our movement as establishing an independent and democratic government in the South, and having this government peacefully unify with the North.
On this point, my father and Mr. Lee Jae-moon agreed.
--- From "Chapter 4 Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam"
If my relationship with my father had been confined solely within the confines of a single family, his presence would have remained an insurmountable wall for me.
I may have treated my father with regret and resentment my entire life.
All I wanted to do was escape from the unbearable reality as soon as possible.
What broke through that wall and came to me was the history that had bound my father.
That was the case in Gwangju in May 1980, and that was the case on the streets in June 1987.
I naturally jumped into the student movement.
Only when I decided to share the weight of that history was I able to step closer to my father's life.
(Omitted) It was a poor and lonely time when we had to live without a father, but looking back, we all lived bravely.
From prison, my father's densely packed postcards gave me strength, and the trips I took to see him every vacation brought me comfort.
--- From "Chapter 1: Wife Jang Su-hyang"
The liberation my father remembers was such an exciting world.
Liberation gave everyone hope for building a new nation.
For those who were oppressed and persecuted, liberation meant not only liberation from Japanese imperialism but also breaking free from feudal bondage and rising as the masters of a new country.
The country that my great-grandfather told my father about was a country where the Korean people were the masters, and a country where everyone was equal politically, economically, and socially.
--- From "Chapter 2 Grandfather Ahn Byeong-hee"
Whenever I look back on my father's life, I wonder how a person can use the time given to him so meticulously.
I thought that my father's day was 48 hours long, not 24.
(Omitted) What kind of beliefs and convictions can train oneself to that extent?
I learned from my father that humans are creatures who can elevate themselves to impossible heights if they have a firm goal and a clear ideology.
--- From "Chapter 3, Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University"
My father had many discussions with Mr. Lee Jae-moon about the nature and character of the southern reform movement.
My father believed that the reality facing our people was that the American military stationed in the South, with pro-Japanese collaborators at the forefront, trampled on the people's efforts to build an independent nation, and turned the South into a neocolony through war and division.
So, we saw the goal of our movement as establishing an independent and democratic government in the South, and having this government peacefully unify with the North.
On this point, my father and Mr. Lee Jae-moon agreed.
--- From "Chapter 4 Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam"
If my relationship with my father had been confined solely within the confines of a single family, his presence would have remained an insurmountable wall for me.
I may have treated my father with regret and resentment my entire life.
All I wanted to do was escape from the unbearable reality as soon as possible.
What broke through that wall and came to me was the history that had bound my father.
That was the case in Gwangju in May 1980, and that was the case on the streets in June 1987.
I naturally jumped into the student movement.
Only when I decided to share the weight of that history was I able to step closer to my father's life.
--- From "Chapter 5 Father and I"
Publisher's Review
= Stars that fell on the land of the fatherland
= The purest and most beautiful warriors, their fiercest struggles
There are warriors who have shared life and death together, fighting against division and dictatorship for a long time.
They are a small number of 'vanguards' who willingly laid down their lives on the altar of the national liberation struggle.
In "Father Ahn Jae-gu," the pure hearts and transparent single-mindedness of those for whom "patriotism and love for the country" were everything are poignantly depicted.
In particular, it details the flow of the reform movement in the Daegu region, once called the "Moscow of Korea" and the "holy land of progress," and the fierce struggles of the innovative activists.
How about now?
Unification is still a long way off and democracy is unstable.
The forces that seek to turn back history are displaying tenacious vitality and are eagerly waiting for an opportunity.
But whenever democracy is in danger, the people of this land have come out into the square and shouted for democracy.
It is a tradition that has been inherited and expanded from those who stood up against colonial power and dictatorship in the past.
We are once again reminded of the truth that the ‘past’ helps the ‘present’ and that the ‘dead’ saves the ‘living’.
Even though it seems like we are moving forward in a cycle of progress and regression, history is moving forward slowly.
"Father Ahn Jae-gu" is a book that quietly calls for everyone to join us on this path of struggle that is not yet over, on this path of independence, democracy, and unification.
Author's Note
The articles serialized under the title “Father Ahn Jae-gu” in the Unification News every week for one year starting in January 2024 have been compiled and published as a book.
It's been five years since my father passed away.
If I look at the time I spent taking notes on the conversations I had while caring for my father, it took almost 10 years.
This book could be my memoirs about my father, or it could be a memoir of his care, or it could be a poem about him.
The last image of my father I saw from the side, the moments of his life that I tried to hold onto until the end even as my memories faded away… .
My grandfather, Ahn Byeong-hee, and my grandparents and friends from Miryang, my mentor, Professor Park Jeong-gi, and the Department of Mathematics at Kyungpook National University, my lifelong revolutionary comrades, Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam, and my wife, Jang Su-hyang, whom I loved and was grateful for until the end of my life, and my unforgettable younger brother, Ahn Yong-woong…
As I organized the stories of my father and those around him, I was able to reaffirm the ever-green mountain-like presence of my father in my heart.
It would be a shame to try to capture my father's life, a life steeped in the modern history of colonization and liberation, war and division, youth and scholarship, democracy and unification, in a single book.
My father's upright life was like a mountain range too vast for me to bear, and his transformational life was too eventful and magnificent for me to express.
But since no one can organize it for me, sometimes I would immerse myself in my father's thoughts and practices as a comrade, and sometimes I would immerse myself in the life path my father had walked as a son.
In that sense, this book can be said to be a special biography of 'An Jae-gu', who I observed as a son and comrade.
= The purest and most beautiful warriors, their fiercest struggles
There are warriors who have shared life and death together, fighting against division and dictatorship for a long time.
They are a small number of 'vanguards' who willingly laid down their lives on the altar of the national liberation struggle.
In "Father Ahn Jae-gu," the pure hearts and transparent single-mindedness of those for whom "patriotism and love for the country" were everything are poignantly depicted.
In particular, it details the flow of the reform movement in the Daegu region, once called the "Moscow of Korea" and the "holy land of progress," and the fierce struggles of the innovative activists.
How about now?
Unification is still a long way off and democracy is unstable.
The forces that seek to turn back history are displaying tenacious vitality and are eagerly waiting for an opportunity.
But whenever democracy is in danger, the people of this land have come out into the square and shouted for democracy.
It is a tradition that has been inherited and expanded from those who stood up against colonial power and dictatorship in the past.
We are once again reminded of the truth that the ‘past’ helps the ‘present’ and that the ‘dead’ saves the ‘living’.
Even though it seems like we are moving forward in a cycle of progress and regression, history is moving forward slowly.
"Father Ahn Jae-gu" is a book that quietly calls for everyone to join us on this path of struggle that is not yet over, on this path of independence, democracy, and unification.
Author's Note
The articles serialized under the title “Father Ahn Jae-gu” in the Unification News every week for one year starting in January 2024 have been compiled and published as a book.
It's been five years since my father passed away.
If I look at the time I spent taking notes on the conversations I had while caring for my father, it took almost 10 years.
This book could be my memoirs about my father, or it could be a memoir of his care, or it could be a poem about him.
The last image of my father I saw from the side, the moments of his life that I tried to hold onto until the end even as my memories faded away… .
My grandfather, Ahn Byeong-hee, and my grandparents and friends from Miryang, my mentor, Professor Park Jeong-gi, and the Department of Mathematics at Kyungpook National University, my lifelong revolutionary comrades, Lee Jae-moon and Yeo Jeong-nam, and my wife, Jang Su-hyang, whom I loved and was grateful for until the end of my life, and my unforgettable younger brother, Ahn Yong-woong…
As I organized the stories of my father and those around him, I was able to reaffirm the ever-green mountain-like presence of my father in my heart.
It would be a shame to try to capture my father's life, a life steeped in the modern history of colonization and liberation, war and division, youth and scholarship, democracy and unification, in a single book.
My father's upright life was like a mountain range too vast for me to bear, and his transformational life was too eventful and magnificent for me to express.
But since no one can organize it for me, sometimes I would immerse myself in my father's thoughts and practices as a comrade, and sometimes I would immerse myself in the life path my father had walked as a son.
In that sense, this book can be said to be a special biography of 'An Jae-gu', who I observed as a son and comrade.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: March 17, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 496 pages | 600g | 145*200*25mm
- ISBN13: 9788977468757
- ISBN10: 8977468752
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