What historical event in your country has had a major effect on your country?

In my opinion, the period when controlled by Japan has affected on Korea. This is because the historical event has an effect on the relationship between Korea and Japan. Also, the period was ended but actually the event is not ended even now.
First of all, as many people know, Korea and Japan had not good relationship at that time. So, some people hate the opposite country each other. Especially, in case of the people who have experience directly or their family member went through, they have a bad feeling about Japan. So, people like that sometimes express their feeling when the government is going to build a good relationship with Japan. Nowadays, the relationship between other countries is very important. But a conflict between the government and the people sometimes disturb that. Fortunately the relationship is changing in a good way through the world cup in 2002. And two countries make an active cultural interchange.
Secondly, the additional events related with the event have been happened in these days. The most serious thing is that they didn’t apologize about comfort women. At that time, Japan took Korean young women and made them be seduced by Japanese soldiers. Most of Korean women had to experience that and after the period, they couldn’t come back to Korea because of shame about that. But, Japan doesn’t apologize about that and rather try to hide their fault. Actually, young people don’t know about that very much and so do I. But when I worked under a documentary director as a part-time job, I read materials about comfort women and saw some of them who talked about their experience. Even though it’s shame for them to say about that experience, they told us about the truth with tears. I felt that the period was ended but the event isn’t ended.
In conclusion, I think that the time that Korea was controlled by Japan is the event that is having a major effect on my country. History isn’t just events that happened in the past. We have to be concerned about that and two countries have to try to solve the problem together.