Anecdote About Kim Jong Suk - A boiling gruel pot

A Boiling Gruel Pot

December has come round again decorating the close of the year.
On December 24 the Korean people commemorate the birth anniversary of anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk with memories and longing.
As a woman Kim Jong Suk devoted her all for the liberation of the country with arms in her hands.
The Korean people respect her as anti-Japanese heroine and remember her in deep emotion even now.
The services rendered by her to the country and the people are replete with lots of impressive anecdotes.
The following happened when she was working as a member of the Communist Youth committee of Yanji County, China.
One day that the enemy staged a punitive operation almost everyday Kim Jong Suk with some of her friends was preparing lunch for guerrillas in a valley.
The lunch was merely millet gruel.
When the gruel pot was boiling, there was all of a sudden gun report at the foot of the mountain.
She looked down the valley and found Japanese punitive troops coming up in groups.
Everybody climbed the mountain.
At the critical hour Kim Jong Suk put the boiling gruel pot on her head. The others followed her holding pots in their hands.
The enemy troops found them climbing the mountain and fired at them.
The situation got more and more dangerous.
Kim Jong Suk, however, did not care a bit and climbed on and on with the hot pot on her head.
Her friends were in a flurry and hesitated to continue to carry the pots.
Kim Jong Suk told them to bear a little more because only then, could guerrillas not go hungry. She encouraged them to continue to climb.
Guerrillas came down to greet them and took the pots.
After the battle was over Kim Jong Suk served guerrillas with hot gruel.
Receiving bowls of gruel, the guerrillas were startled out of their wits to find half her head swollen terribly under the hot gruel pot.
They understood that even in the fierce battle she had not held her life dear only thinking of her comrades’ welfare.
Her noble traits moved the guerrillas to tears.
The anecdote about a boiling gruel pot is only a piece of story showing her revolutionary comradeship displayed at the anti-Japanese battlefields.
Today too, the Korean people significantly commemorate her birth anniversary looking back upon her exploits.