2024-04-07 16:10:11
In episode 453 of KBS’s ‘Companion’, which airs at 6 pm today (6th), the episode ‘Hwisang’s Staircase March Dream’ will be broadcast.
√ Mother’s tears hidden behind laughter
A market in Busan. There is a sister called the mascot. They are 13-year-old Hwi-sang and 12-year-old Hye-sang. The sister said she grew up following her mother in the market here since she was 5 years old. The reason her merchants love her children is not only because of her good nature, but also because she is a hard-working mother. Her sisters’ mother, Su-jin (age 54), moved to Busan eight years ago and lived selling gimbap and doing sewing work. She is praised for caring for her family more than herself and never losing her smile, but her mother, who lives in a monthly rented house on the second floor of her multi-family house and worries about her rent and livelihood, has a painful story. Sujin came to Busan with her family to earn her money after her faulty guarantee eight years ago left her with hundreds of millions in debt. To repay her money to her creditors, she made and sold kimbap from dawn and did a side job as a sewing worker. She slept for two hours a day to repay the money, but her debt grew more and more with interest. Sujin had no choice but to go bankrupt and receive a discharge decision two years ago. But it wasn’t the end. She raised her two daughters, one in the 6th grade of elementary school and the 1st grade of middle school, and had to pay rent and living expenses. In addition, her eldest daughter, Hwi-sang, has to deal with her diabetes treatment alone.
√ Hwisang’s efforts for his mother
Hwisang entered middle school early this year. He takes the bus to school, but walks home from school, which takes more than 30 minutes. If he takes the bus just once a day, he can save over 20,000 won a month and also exercise. He is receiving treatment after being diagnosed with diabetes when he was in the third grade of elementary school, but the hospital bills are a lot of money for his family, who do not have any actual cost insurance. He said he was looking for a way to be healthy without spending money, and started climbing stairs and planting vegetables to eat after school. The reason she works so hard is to ease the burden on her mother. My mother, who belatedly visited the hospital while working because she thought the persistent hand pain was normal, was diagnosed with ‘trigger finger syndrome’ (a disease that causes finger pain due to inflammation of the flexor tendons, which are finger tendons) in August last year and needed surgery. did. Sisters Hwi-sang and Hye-sang feel sorry for their mother who cannot let go of work even under difficult circumstances. Although she always has a smiling face in front of her, she feels worried every time she hears her mother’s sigh beyond her less soundproof room.
√ Hwisang’s Staircase March
These days, the sisters shop for groceries and help their mother pack kimbap. After her surgery, her mother, who had only occasionally made aprons for a while, decided to start working again in earnest. A mother who went back to work despite her doctor telling her not to use her hands until she was completely cured. She has to wake up at 5 a.m. to chop, stir-fry, and season the kimbap ingredients to help her mother, who has started her work with a body that has not fully recovered, but she is grateful that her sisters can help. Only after she fills the kimbap container with kimbap does she go to school, but even as she goes to school, her sisters are worried. The cartilage in her knees has melted and she is worried whether she will be able to get to the market, which requires climbing countless stairs on her sore legs, and whether she will collapse like one day after working so hard. A mother who leaves behind her sister’s worries and heads towards her hopes carrying her gimbap. She said it was the love of her two daughters and the help of her neighbors that always pulled her mother out of her despair. The only way to repay her faith is to live hard with her two daughters. Her mother climbs her stairs diligently today as well.
KBS1TV’s ‘Companion’ is a program that reflects on how big a role one person’s small interest can play in the amazing changes brought about by the warmth of the community in our society.
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2024-04-07 16:10:11