<P> The minjung theologian Suh Nam - dong describes han as a "feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong--all these combined ." </P> <P> Han is the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character 恨 (hèn), which in modern Chinese means "hatred", "dislike", "animosity", "bitterness", "rancor", or "resentment". </P> <P> Some scholars theorize the concept of Han evolved from Korea's history of having been invaded such as in the Japanese occupation of 1910--45 . Others attribute han to class system structures, such as the distinction between the elite Yangban class and the peasants . Han permeates Korean cultural expression, for example, in Korean shamanism and Pansori . </P> <P> Japanese scholar Kimura claims that modern history such as the liberation by the surrender of Japan to the Allies rather than to the Korean Liberation Army, the Korean War and the subsequent division of the nation also contribute to the culture as missing glorious history and unresolved han . </P>

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