'My Innocent Uncle By Ch' Ae Manshik

In the short story of “My innocent uncle” by Ch’ae ManShik’s setting is the era under the colonial administration of imperial Japan. In the passage “A wife from the home country-that’s only for starters. I’ll change my name to home-country style, same with house, clothes, food, I’ll give my children Japanese name and send them to a Japanese school here. Japanese schools, they’re the thing. Choson schools are dirty-just perfect for turning out rotten kids.” (103) obviously shows Korea is under controlled by Japan. The narrator “I” express everything about Japan is better than Choson by changing his name, house, clothes and so on, and he prefers to be a Japanese, even though he is Choson person. This represents how Korea was having a hard time