45-year-old Image5.-The late 70ies

45-year-old Image5.-The late 70ies


** The over-all society between mid 70ies and late 70ies in Korea was too different from nowadays.
Take a residential matter for one example, studio-type apartments (called officetel or one room in Korean) that we now often see is but a residential culture that appeared much later.

The late 70ies is no earlier than 25~30 years ago. But the late 70ies was the times when there were few spaces where one could live alone. Even if you might have gotten a self-boarding room with a kitchen with the help of your family, it was the times in which you must have had to boil water depending on a briquette fire pot or an oil stove.

Until mid-or-late 70ies, they mostly depended on Yeontan, or coal briquette, while nowadays most houses’ heating depends on oil or gas boiler. I am able to stabilize my heart within faster time because I could get warm water easily in the oil or gas boiler, while it took tens of minutes to get water heated on a briquette fire pot.

Beyond this living condition, or apart from parents’ mixed feelings of love and hatred towards their child who attempted killing oneself with poison in front of parents, yet how many parents would there have been who would be ready to comply with going-away-from-home opinion of their child whose living looked perilous due to the ill body, and who would have bought a monthly payment room or deposit-money-based house for that son...?

This would have been the reality that RH-787 poison eaters were faced with.