She tried to commit suicide with two other girls by alcohol poisoning, but Japanese found them unconscious. The army took them to the hospital and the medics revived them by pumping their stomachs, hurting them permanently. Ten days later, she finally woke up and decided to live to tell what happened.[5] She said if her father had been alive, she might not have been helplessly taken away.[6] At age 21 and after the war, Kim Bok-dong finally returned to her hometown.