제21부 조국으로의 송환과 징용, 첫 번째 ||homeland|repatriation||| Part 21 Repatriation and Internment, First

제21부 [...] 조국으로의 송환과 징용, 첫 번째 Part 21 [...] Repatriation and Recruitment, First

1944년 1월 말, 하루는 형사가 하숙방으로 찾아왔다. ||||detective|the boarding house| One day in late January 1944, a detective came to the boarding house. 그는 내게 조선으로의 송환을 통보하고는 내일 짐을 싸놓고 나오라고 했다. |||repatriation|||||| He informed me that I was being repatriated to Korea and told me to pack up and leave tomorrow. 나는 올 것이 왔다고 생각하고 그에게 심하게 항의하지는 않았다. |||||||protested| I figured what was coming was coming and didn't protest him too much. 형사에게 이러쿵저러쿵 따져 봐야 소용없을 것이기 때문이었다. |this and that|||useful|| It would be pointless to ask the detective. 나는 짐을 싸면서 일본이 최후의 발악을 하고 있다고 생각했다. As I packed my bags, I thought Japan was making a last stand.

경찰서에는 100여 명의 조선인이 모여 있었다. There were about 100 Koreans gathered at the police station. 경찰은 우리를 기차 편으로 시모노세키(下關)로 이동시켰다. |||||||moved The police took us to Shimonoseki by train. 그곳에서 우리 일행은 겨우 서 있을 정도로 작은 방에 몰아넣어졌다. |||||||||were crammed There, we were herded into a room so small we could barely stand. 밤이 되자 경찰은 우리에게 서서 자라고 했다. |||||to stand| At night, the police told us to sleep standing up. 나는 외투도 걸치지 않은 차림으로 좁고 추운 방에서 떨어야 했다. ||||attire||||| I had to step out of a small, cold room with no coat on. 지금도 그때의 일이 기억에 생생한데, 외투를 입지 않은 사람은 나 혼자뿐이었다. ||||vivid||||||only I still remember it vividly, and I was the only one not wearing a coat. 게다가 나이도 가장 어렸다. He was also the youngest.

참다못해 어떤 사람이 불평을 제기했다. |||complaint| Impatiently, someone complained. 그러나 돌아온 것은 악의에 찬 고함소리였다. |||||shout But what came back was a vicious yell.

“군대에도 나가지 않은 비국민이 무슨 불평이야. |||non-citizen||complaint "What's a non-citizen complaining about who isn't even in the military. 유치장에 들어가고 싶어?” the detention center|| Do you want to go to jail?"

“군대에 안 갔다고 서서 재우라는 법이 어디 있는가. ||||Jaewoo||| "Who says you have to stand up and be counted if you didn't go to the army. 유치장에 갈 사람은 바로 당신이야!” ||||you You're the one who's going to jail!"

우리 쪽에서도 화가 난 몇몇이 목소리를 높였다. ||angry||some|| A few angry voices were raised on our end as well.

“그만두시오. "Please stop. 방을 다시 배정하겠소.” I'll reassign your room."

도쿄에서 따라온 경시청 직원이 그런 실랑이를 뜯어말렸다. ||police department|||scuffle|stopped A Metropolitan Police Department officer who had followed me from Tokyo interrupted the exchange. 그러고는 얼마쯤 지나자 우리에게 다다미를 깐 넓은 방으로 들어가게 했다. ||||tatami||||| After a while, he led us into a large room with tatami mats. 그 방은 경찰서의 무도장이었는데, 유리가 깨진 창문이 적지 않아 한데나 다름없이 추웠다. |||dance hall|||||||| The room was the ballroom of a police station, and it was freezing cold with many broken windows.