震撼世界的故事
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Fish vendor ensures kids
hooked on school
买鱼的小摊贩帮助孩子们爱上学校
Updated: 2008-05-13 08:02
特别奉献：
* I'm hooked on speaking
English.
* Please go buy a bottle of water from that
vendor over there.
[1] As a child, Yoo Yang-seon loved to read,
but her father believed educating women was a waste of time and
punished her with a whipping if he found her with a book.
[2]
Now the 75-year-old works 18 hours a day as a shopkeeper in a Seoul
fish market to try to give today's children the education and
opportunities she was denied.
特别奉献：
* I was denied on my first try to get a
visa.
[3] For the
past 25 years she has sent books and funded scholarships for
children in schools and orphanages, with total donations estimated
at $1.6 million.
[4]
Clad in a yellow rubber apron that
earned her the nickname 'Yellow Grandma', Yoo sells jut, a
fermented and salted fish condiment for the national dish kimchi,
at Noryangjin Market in the South Korean capital.
特别奉献：
Yoo Yang-seon sells jut, a fermented
and salted fish condiment for the national dish kimchi, at
Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul on May 7, 2008.
AFP
|
* The school children were clad in matching
uniforms.
[5] 'When I
was a child, my dream was to immerse
myself in reading books all day long. But this dream was never
achieved because of poverty and discrimination against women,' she
said.
特别奉献：
* My dream is to
immerse myself in the English-speaking world.
[6]
Born to a subsistence-level farming family in Seosan county, 100 km
southwest of Seoul, Yoo and four other children toiled from an early age, working in the potato
field, weaving hemp and cotton clothes, and tending
silkworms.
特别奉献：
* My mother toiled for years to put me
through school.
[7]
She attended elementary school thanks to her mother.
[8]
But her father believed a woman's role was to obey her husband,
work hard, cook and bear sons.
[9]
When he caught her reading, he whipped her, but she persisted.
[10]
On one occasion he grabbed her book and notebook and threw them in
a manure tank.
[11]
'At those times when I was being whipped I managed to hold back tears, but that incident made me
burst into tears. I wept and wept for
hours,' she said.
特别奉献：
* I try to hold back my fear when I
speak English.
* When I found out I didn't get into
Beijing University, I burst in to tears.
[12] Her
mother salvaged the book and notebook
and helped her clean the pages.
特别奉献：
* My teacher salvaged
me from poor scores.
[13]
But the smell lingered, driving away
classmates.
特别奉献：
* The smoke lingered even after the
fire.
[14]
“Whenever I send books to children, the book and notebook soiled by
manure comes to my mind,” she said.
[15]
At age 28, in a traditional arrangement, she was married to a man
from a relatively rich farming family in a nearby
county.
[16]
“I was treated worse than a cow there,” she recalled of her
foul-mouthed mother-in-law and violent
husband.
特别奉献：
* Foul-mouthed
children should be severely punished.
[17]
Their abuse worsened, she said, after
she was found to be unable to have children.
特别奉献：
* Her condition worsened as she got
older.
[18] Her
husband started keeping concubines on the
pretext of trying to carry on the family line and moved to
Seoul to start a new business.
[19]
Yoo had to support her ageing parents-in-law alone.
[20]
After one concubine finally had a child, Yoo's status in the household fell further.
特别奉献：
China's status is
rising in the world.
[21]
She was forced to leave home and make a living doing
needlework.
[22]
But her sewing skills suffered, she said, when her husband broke
her thumb during an argument.
[23] Finally her in-laws took pity
on her and pressed the husband
to hand over his prosperous jut store to Yoo as a reward for her
care of his mother.
特别奉献：
* My parents pressed
me to study the piano.
[24] She began working 18-hour days.
[25]“I drank as little as possible as I was afraid of
losing customers while I went to the bathroom,” she
recalled.
[26] Yoo's thrift was legendary. She used salt instead of toothpaste and
candles to save on electricity bills, and did not burn heating fuel
despite freezing nights.
特别奉献：
* Li Yang's story is
legendary.
* Despite coming from
a poor family, he became very successful.
[27] Thanks to her diligence, frugality and high-quality wares, Yoo began to
make good money but another tragedy was in store.
特别奉献：
* We should all
practice frugality.
[28] During the time spent away from her husband she
had adopted a baby girl left on her doorstep - what she called a
'gift from heaven'.
[29] But when Soonae was 10 years old she was hit by a bus
while crossing the street, suffering crippling mental and physical damage.
[30] It was around this time that Yoo began sending
books to schools in poor areas and orphanages. 'I wanted them to
achieve what I and my daughter were unable to do,' she
said.
[31]
At the age of 60 Yoo finally divorced
her husband and redoubled her efforts
to support needy students with money and books.
特别奉献：
* I attended LYCE
Training Camp and redoubled my efforts to learn
English.
[32]
In 1998 she donated a building to Hanseo University near her home
town.
[33]
In 2006, she contributed a plot of land in the southern island of
Jeju to the same university.
[34] But she will never give up her most precious possessions.
特别奉献：
* My books are my
most precious possessions.
[35]
“These are my assets,” she said, proudly producing bundles of
letters from children thanking her for her help.
[36]
“Whenever I find minutes of rest, I read these letters. This is
the biggest source of my happiness,”
she said.
特别奉献：
* A child is a mother's biggest
source of happiness.
[37] “I have to keep going
because of these children,” she added,
firmly.
特别奉献：
* No matter what happens, I have to
keep going.
