Chapter 3 – 3. Train to Pregnancy Training Center
Several days after the disgraceful and inhumane physical examination.
Ha-yeon forgot that there was such a prosecutor and lived a normal and peaceful life.
Ha-yeon, who just graduated from high school,
Now that she’s just an adult, she’s starting to do things she never did when she was younger.
The first thing she did was to have a drink with her high school friends…
“Oh, that’s really annoying. She just graduated from high school, so what kind of childbirth is this!!”
One of Hayeon’s friends is drunk and says in a voice that sounds like she’s annoyed.
“I mean. How can it be that all these stupid laws have been passed… What level did you get in the physical examination, Yujin Ha?”
Another friend who agrees with the words of such a friend…
“Ah, of course, I broke the 1st grade, maybe if only the womb was properly attached, I would beat everyone in the 1st grade?
And this fucking country wants to get a physical examination for childbirth before getting any ID card? And the inspection method is downright humiliating.
Naked and with so many people… Ugh, it’s a thing of the past, but anyway, I thought I was dying of shame, kid”
A woman called Eugene replies in an agitated state of drunkenness.
“Yeah, but there was a handsome guy among the inspectors, but when I took a picture of him naked in front of him, I got excited for some reason.”
Eugene, she’s completely drunk and doesn’t even know what she’s talking about…
“Oh my gosh, he’s really crazy about handsome guys from the old days”
Another friend teasing her Eugene as if making fun of her honest confession…
“Ah, what did you say? What!!! Hey Min Ha-yeon, why don’t you say anything!?”
She just listens to what her friends are saying, but Yoo-jin says something to Ha-yeon, who doesn’t say anything.
“Uh…Uh? What?”
Ha-yeon, who was dazed at Yu-jin’s words while looking at Ha-yeon with her blushing face, regains her senses.
“He’s always dumbfounded when he’s playing like this. Grades are always a good subject.”
Yoo-jin continued her words while looking at Ha-yeon, who was making a dumbfounded expression, with a blushing face.
“Hey higuk… You higuk… What grade did you get? Well, of course you are first class? Your body is higuk… And your hair is higuk… You’re good, you higuk…”
As if he was under interrogation, he is now completely drunk and speaks with a giggle…
“Uh… I got first grade too…”
Looking at Yujin like that, Hayeon said with a sad expression for some reason…
“Hah…True…A fucking country higuk… Hey, by the way, how was your Ada? Higuk… I only studied so I could meet a guy hehe…
But now, at the training center, heeuk.. I have to have sex with a man I don’t know, heeup… I have to have a baby, heeup… Hehe…”
Ha-yeon’s face blushes at the words of Yu-jin, who talks about sex or the guy she likes while talking about her daughter’s soup…
Due to her shyness, she couldn’t even answer Eugene’s words, and she just gulped down her beer from her glass.
“Look at this, higuk… You’re still a virgin right? Higuk… But you’re higuk… You should take off Adah before you go higuk… Do you want me to introduce you to an older brother I know? Higuk… The sex is also really good, heeuk…”
Hearing Yoo-jin’s words of embarrassment, Ha-yeon’s drunkenness rises and her reddened face turns even redder, and she doesn’t know what to do.
“Hey Yujin Ha, stop saying you’re going to catch a child! Ugh, anyway, there’s nothing you can’t say when you’re drunk.”
A friend who barely stops Yujin from speaking without hesitation…
“Anyway, let’s not talk about useless things today and drink a lot!”
After finishing the theme of the duty of childbirth, which has been going on for a long time, Ha-yeon and her friends spent time drinking and resolving their past affairs.
A sense of hope for what will happen as an adult now,
Anxiety about unknown things that will happen during the two years to fulfill the duty of childbirth,
Resentment that the brightest period of a woman’s life should be dedicated to the country,
The resentment of what they had to go through because they were born as women,
But she’s by no means the only relief she’s going through, and so on…
Leaving all sorts of emotions behind, the girls spent their time drunk…
After her first drink with her long-awaited friends, Ha-yeon also had time with her family.
Ha-yeon is also spending quality time with her family, whom she neglected because of her high school studies.
Her blunt father, her mother who always did anything for her Ha-yeon, and her brother who was playful but caring for her…
She eats with them at a fancy restaurant and watches a movie…
Saying embarrassing things that we haven’t said before,
Now, she is making good family memories with utmost sincerity for her daughter, whom she cannot see every day for a while.
“My daughter is all grown up now? You have to do the sacred duty of giving birth.”
As if she was proud of her, on the other hand, her mother looked at Ha-yeon and said as if she felt sorry for the fact that she had to give birth to her because she got pregnant at a young age…
“What, all other girls do it compulsory, so why are you giving it such a high praise? No matter what happens, you just have to take care of your body and go home, Ha Yeon-ah”
Her words are so blunt, but her father, who knows what Ha-yeon will go through, speaks to Ha-yeon in a more friendly tone than usual…
“Hey, you’re not going to die, why are you crying so much?
It was her brother who spoke with her pat, but the meaning contained in her words was conveyed to her enough to reassure Ha-yeon.
Spending time with her family and friends, Ha-yeon had a peaceful but busy day for a while.
First, after completing the duty of giving birth,
Searching for a university to enter a university at a level that matches her grades,
Find out what she wanted to learn from the past and the process of acquiring various licenses.
Preparing for the future…
It was her preparing for the process of becoming an adult…
She is so ordinary, but time passes that is by no means meaningless…
Her ordinary days are shattered when Ha-yeon receives a text message and mail.
‘Ding dong’, a text message rang on Ha-yeon’s cell phone.
Ha-yeon opens the text with joy, wondering if it is a message that the parcel she ordered has arrived.
However, her facial expression soon changed.
★Ministry of San Francisco San Station transition guide
Min Ha-yeon was born on the xx month xx of the year 20xx,
She has a date set for her admission to the pregnancy training center,
The admission notice must be submitted 2 days prior to the admission date.
Please apply separately at the time of baby love mail or pregnancy test
It will be sent by email. Etc
If you have any questions, please contact xxxx-xxxx (Sanmu Civil Service Center)
Please feel free to contact us.
Thank you [Ministry of San Francisco]
I wish you a happy and safe pregnancy ♥
★Information on transition to industrial areas can be found on the website of the Ministry of San Francisco
And can be checked through xxxx-xxxx at the Sanmu Civil Service Center.
‘Happy pregnancy…? What nonsense… And which madman’s idea is this heart?’ The thing to come has finally come.
She was admitted to the gestational ward … Her admission date was just one week later … In a week, Ha-yeon would be isolated from society and against her will.
She was to be trained to become pregnant for the country, be impregnated by an unwanted partner, and give birth.
Min Ha-yeon, an individual, was annihilated and spent two years as a childbirth tool to live under the pretext of restoring the country’s stagnant birth rate… In the name of service to the country and sacred childbirth…
It was a moment of mixed feelings.
‘Why me?’ ‘Pregnancy? But I don’t want to get pregnant…’ ‘My two precious years…’ ‘I heard that some people died while pregnant?’ ‘Even though I wasn’t born in this country…’ Etc…
The thoughts I had in my heart even when I was already spending time with my friends and family…
She was, but she didn’t have great parents to support Ha-yeon, and she wasn’t a flawed woman who couldn’t conceive herself. The sacred duty of childbirth imposed on women who are physically healthy born in Korea.
While Ha-yeon agonized and despaired, resenting herself born as a woman in Korea and resenting the men who enacted such a law, the two days passed like the wind and before she knew it, a piece of mail arrived in her mailbox.
★Compulsory Pregnancy Enrollment Notice
Name-Min Ha-yeon
Date of birth – xx month xx day 20xx
Place of Admission – Pregnancy Training Center Entrance Examination Desk
Admission Date-20xx Year xx Month xx Day xx Hour xx
Gathering place – Pregnancy training center admission screening desk, xx-daero, xx-eup, xx-si, xx-do
In accordance with the provisions of Article 25 of the Industrial Area Act, we notify you that you will be admitted to the hospital as a mandatory pregnancy as above.
Xx month xx day 20xx
XxDirector of Regional Industrial Affairs Office
Omitted
In addition, laws and regulations regarding various disadvantages and legal punishment that may be applied in the event of subsequent unauthorized absence…
A very cruel mail sent in a very detailed and lengthy way, disguised as a state law, with a ridiculous threat saying, ‘Come and get pregnant, otherwise I’ll bury you socially’.
Ha-yeon reads the postal mail for a while…
“Ha, what the fuck…!”
Hayeon didn’t swear much, but after reading this shitty mail, all she could say was swearing.
As Ha-yeon reads each letter in the mail, her body starts to tremble…
Anxiety about the unknowns that will happen in the future…
And the noble act of conceiving a new life that only women can experience called ‘birth’…
Everything about her comes to her as an overburden.
“Hey, it’s mandatory pregnancy, which is what girls your age do, so why are you so worried while shaking your body? First of all, there’s no law to die for anything, and everyone’s life is the same, so bump into your body and experience it yourself, and have a good trip! ! “
My brother speaks with a calm expression as if he is trying to calm down Ha-yeon, who is trembling after receiving the pregnancy notice.
For some reason, Ha-yeon seems to be energized by her brother’s calm expression and words of comfort and encouragement.
Ha-yeon tried to compromise herself with the reality as much as possible, thinking that no matter how bad the forced pregnancy was, it wasn’t something that only happened to her.
Finally, on the day of admission,
After a short greeting with her family, Ha-yeon got on the train for pregnancy training.
The train was full of women of the same age as Ha-yeon, and among them were women with bloodshot eyes from crying so much, women with faces as if they had given up on everything, women with empty eyes that seemed empty, etc.
There were women with various expressions.
What they all had in common was that they all had youthful faces that seemed like they had just become adults, with expressions full of worries, and had envelopes of letters and pink baby love cards in their hands.
When I sit down in the designated seat, I can see through the window,
Scenes outside that you won’t see for the next two years…
Ha-yeon begins to calmly look at the scenery outside the ordinary window, which she can see anytime on a bus or train, as if she were taking a picture…
“Oh, who is this? Meet everyone here!”
Ha-yeon, who was watching the scenery through her window outside, turns her head at the sound of her name being called.
Then, Yujin Ha, who is smiling as if she is happy to see her, comes into her eyes.
“Uh…Uh? Eugene, why are you here?”
Ha-yeon stares at Yu-jin with wide eyes in surprise at her unexpectedly familiar face.
“Why are you here? I’m going to the training center because I’m enlisting today. Anyway, it’s such a coincidence that I’m enlisting on the same day as you.”
Yujin looked at Hayeon, who was dumbfounded by surprise, and said with a smile…
It was so good that Ha-yeon even felt her strangeness at Yu-jin’s smiling attitude unlike other women.
“Unfortunately, I’m not in the seat next to you. I wanted to ride with you. I’ll see you next time, Ha Yeon-ah.”
Yoo-jin, who made an expression of regret that he was not sitting next to her, exchanged a brief greeting with Ha-yeon, and she disappeared into another car of the train.
Through her brief reunion with her familiar face, Ha-yeon felt her tension eased slightly.
Ha-yeon begins to remind herself once again that through her brief reunion with Yu-jin, she is not the only one to go through this…
‘Yes, it’s not just me! Pregnancy and childbirth are things all women have to do… I can do it!’
Ha-yeon shows her courage, promising that she can do it herself.
The distance from where Ha-yeon rode to her pregnancy training center was about 4 hours,
In the meantime, Ha-yeon, who has mixed feelings once again, looked around her and recalled each and every woman in the same situation as her, spending her last hours in her society.