A NOTE ON NAMES: Koreans place family names first; in Chung Eun-yong, for example, Chung is the family name. Women don’t take their husbands’ family names. The given names of siblings, and sometimes of cousins, usually carry a common root. “Koo” in the names of Chung children is an example. Literally, it means “to seek,” as in Koo-hun, “to seek the law”; Koo-hak, “to seek learning”; and Koo-ok, “to seek the jade.” Because some Korean surnames, such as Chung and Park, are so common, The Bridge at No Gun Ri generally uses only given names of villagers on repeated references to avoid confusion.
(Key: D=Killed at No Gun Ri; W=Wounded; S=Survived without wounds. Main figures in the book are in ALL CAPITALS.)
CHUNG EUN-YONG’S FAMILY
Chung Tae-nyon (father) (S)
Park Hee-moon (mother) (W)
CHUNG EUNG-YONG (the ex-policeman; not present at No Gun Ri)
PARK SUN-YONG (wife) (W)
Chung Koo-pil (four-year-old son) (D)
Chung Koo-hee (two-year-old daughter) (D)
Chung Kwan-yong (Eun-yong’s brother; the prison guard; not present)
Min Young-ok (wife) (D)
Chung Jong-ja (daughter) (W)
Chung Soon-ja (daughter) (S)
Chung Soon-rye (daughter) (D)
Chung Koo-sung (baby son) (D)
Chung Soon-yong (Eun-yong’s sister; not present)
Chung Kun-yong (Eun-yong’s brother) (S)
Chung Kum-yong (Eung-yong’s brother) (S)
Kim Hong-ki (servant boy) (W)
CHUNG KOO-IL’S FAMILY
Chung Hee-yong (father; the “1919 patriot”) (S)
Lee Soon-kum (mother) (D)
Chung Tae-gu (daughter; not present)
Chung Koo-yon (daughter) (D)
Kim Sung-ja (daughter) (W)
Kim Kook-hun (baby son) (D)
CHUNG KOO-IL (son; the college student; later disappeared) (S)
CHUNG KOO-OK (daughter; the schoolteacher) (D)
Chung Koo-hong (son) (S)
CHUNG KOO-HUN’S FAMILY
Chung Ssang-yong (father; the fishmonger) (S)
Hwang Eun-yon (mother) (D)
Chung Koo-soon (daughter; not present)
CHUNG KOO-HUN (son; the tall seventeen-year-old) (S)
Chung Myong-ja (daughter) (W)
CHUNG KOO-HAK (son; the sickly eight-year-old) (S)
Chung Young-sook (baby daughter) (D)
YANG HAE-SOOK’S FAMILY
Lee Ja-sun (grandmother; the reluctant refugee) (D)
Yang Ho-yong (father; the “loyal son”) (S)
Lee Soon-yi (mother) (W)
Yang Hae-young (son) (D)
YANG HAE-SOOK (daughter; “Golden Girl”) (W)
YANG HAE-CHAN (ten-year-old son) (W)
Yang Hae-yong (son) (D)
Yang Ke-soon (father’s sister) (D)
Min Eun-soon (Ke-soon’s daughter in-law) (D)
Chung Hyun-mok (Eun-soon’s baby son) (D)
Yang Mal-soon (father’s pregnant sister) (D)
Park Ne-eung (Mal-soon’s husband) (D)
Park Chung-ha (son; not present)
Park Sang-ja (daughter) (D)
Park Hwa-ja (daughter) (S)
Park Hwa-soon (daughter) (D)
CHUN CHOON-JA’S FAMILY
Chun Kyong-moon (grandfather who protected Choon-ja) (D)
Kim Suk-jin (grandmother) (S)
Chun Soon-pyo (father; the “possessed” widower) (S)
Kim Ae-shim (mother) (D)
CHUN CHOON-JA (ten-year-old daughter) (S)
Chun Tae-sung (baby son, “Great Success”) (D)
Chun Joon-pyo (father’s newlywed brother) (D)
Lee Young-ja (Joon-pyo’s wife) (D)
Chun Ok-boon (father’s sister) (W)
PARK HEE-SOOK’S FAMILY
Park June-ha (father) (D)
Sohn Soon-nam (mother) (D)
Park Hee-soo (son; not present; long missing overseas)
Park Hee-un (daughter; not present)
Park Hee-soon (daughter; the nervous new mother) (D)
Lee Young-ja (Hee-soon’s daughter, the crying baby) (D)
PARK HEE-SOOK (daughter; the pigtailed sixteen-year-old) (S)