The American way was first proposed not far from here when subjects of a king demanded more control over their lives than that dictated by someone else's definition of providence.
By luck, or divine providence, the local man in charge of the ration cards was one Fred Koonstra, whose mentally disabled daughter had been attending Corrie's church services for 20 years.
But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.
Here, the movie does something interesting by seemingly re-introducing the idea of destiny, albeit its own version of destiny, presented here as the Korean notion of In-Yun; It means " providence" . Or… " fate" .
" As I was saying, " he went on, as though nothing unwonted had happened, " the shark was not in the reckoning. It was — ahem — shall we say Providence" ?
As part of their religious beliefs they observed Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving in response to events they believed to be special acts of Providence.