"This article attempts to disclose how women tell stories differently from men, that is, gender difference in the life stories collected from the oral history interview about the hard married life in husband's parental home. For this, it reviews the case studies about the gender difference in narrative and memory carried out overseas and makes a comparison between Korean women's and men's life histories collected by the author. Three life stories of women who married the first son around 1950 when the Korea War broke are analyzed in terms of narrative structure and narrative form out of 11 life stories collected in Seoul between 2008 and 2010. Their stories are composed of a series of hardship-overcome episodes and are presented focusing on family relationships and life ordeals, full of reported speeches, and as a lesson from a woman-warrior's lived experience. The woman narrators seem to understand their identity as a strong care-taking mother, a son-bearer for family line and a family builder through education. As a result, the way women narrators tell their life stories seems to be compatible to their gender role in the patriarchal society.
Key words:Oral History, Gender, Women, Life Story, Hard Married Life in Patrilocal Residence"