My mom was a refugee during the Korean war. her family was uprooted from an area south of the 38th parallel and had like many others to walk down all the way to the southern Korean coast. According to my mom, who was a kid at the time, the North Korean soldiers basically killed any South Korean male they saw. She remembered young South Korean males hiding in haystacks and North Korean soldiers sticking their bayonets in the hay and blood gushing out. Anyone walking out of line would be bayonetted. The North Koreans let the women leave but they had to walk on foot with no food hundreds of miles towards the coast while permantly losing all their possesions and homes. According to my my moms dad who is now dead, the Japanese were not nearly as bad as the North koreans. He continued to work his government job and my family was actually well off up until the Korean war. It seems like their is much hostility by South Koreans against Japan when North Koreans treated the South Koreans much worse.