Biography

I am writing about a famous figure in Korpan called, "Mariko Deen." She was half Korean, and Japan.

Mariko was born in 1573, and died in 1598. She did die in a young age of 25, yet she was a strong-belief pacifist. She was a Christian, and she was very patriotic. When she was young, she was very well educated so she has is very brave, and always open minded. As she grew up, she was very interested in history such as wars between countries, so she became pacifist between Korea and Japan. The year of 1592-1598 when Japan had attacked Korea for the land, lots of people in Japan and Korea moved by ships, and therefore, Japanese and Korean met each other at the island they had all discovered. So both of their countries decided to use first 3 letters of Korea, and last 3 letters of Japan. The island was named, "Koran Island.” At first, people got along very easily, and there was no fights at all, but as the population kept increasing, people started to complain that different people living in same island is not right, so Korean and Japan started to say Korpan is influenced by Korea, and some started to say it was influenced by Japan. In the year of 1578 when Mariko was born. That’s when Korpan Island had caused a change. As Mariko grew up, she was very patriotic. In the year of 1577, there was a war between Korea and Japan because of Korpan. Mariko soon got along with them and as a pacifist she was trying to make a treaty with Korea and Japan. She gave a speech of why people fight for just a land, and that speech made the people change their minds. They decided to make a treaty! Japan and Korea now had became neighboring countries with Pyongyang, Kyoto, Osaka, and Seoul, and till now, the Korpanese people always thank Mariko Deen for her devoted love of her country, and for the peace she had made with Japan and Korea.