Pachinko Family Tree: People, Sources and Citations

The characters

Everyone on the Pachinko family tree

The people on the chart, in the order of its rows.
Portrait	Person	In the story	Life	On the chart
H	HoonieFather of Sunja	Dies in Book I	A boarding house keeper on Yeongdo. Sources2 3	Find on the chart
Y	YangjinMother of Sunja	Dies in 1979	She keeps the boarding house. Sources4	Find on the chart
I	Isak’s fatherFather of the Baeks	Before the novel	A church founder in Pyongyang. Sources2	Find on the chart
I	Isak’s motherMother of the Baeks	Before the novel	A church founder in Pyongyang. Sources2	Find on the chart
SB	Samoel BaekEldest brother	Dies in 1919	Killed by a police beating. Sources2 10	Find on the chart
YB	Yoseb BaekElder brother of Isak	Dies by Book III	Burned at Nagasaki. Sources2 6	Find on the chart
K	KyungheeWife of Yoseb	From Book I	Sunja’s friend for life. Sources2 10	Find on the chart
S	SunjaDaughter of Hoonie	All three books	Mother of Noa and Mozasu. Sources2	Find on the chart
BI	Baek IsakHusband of Sunja	Dies in Book II	A pastor who dies after prison. Sources2 9	Find on the chart
KH	Koh HansuFather of Noa	All three books	A fish broker from Jeju. Sources5	Find on the chart
H	Hansu’s wifeWife of Hansu	Unnamed	His wife in Japan. Sources3 11	Find on the chart
NB	Noa BaekSon of Sunja and Hansu	Dies in 1978	He lives in Nagano as Nobuo Ban. Sources7	Find on the chart
RI	Risa IwamuraWife of Noa	Book III	Mother of his four children. Sources2 7	Find on the chart
MB	Mozasu BaekSon of Sunja and Isak	Books II and III	He comes to own pachinko parlors. Sources2 11	Find on the chart
Y	YumiWife of Mozasu	Dies in Book II	A seamstress, killed by a car. Sources2 9 11	Find on the chart
EN	Etsuko NagatomiPartner of Mozasu	Book III	She refuses to marry him. Sources2 11	Find on the chart
SB	Solomon BaekSon of Mozasu	Books II and III	He joins his father’s business. Sources2 3	Find on the chart
P	PhoebeGirlfriend of Solomon	Book III	She leaves him in Tokyo. Sources2 3	Find on the chart
H	HanaDaughter of Etsuko	Dies in Book III	She dies of AIDS in Tokyo. Sources2 9	Find on the chart

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Relations are cited to the LitCharts character pages, which give book and chapter where they can, and to Wikipedia, GradeSaver and Book Analysis. All were read on 10 November 2026.

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