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์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์๋ง์ ์ธ์ ๊ธฐ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ์์ฒญ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค. โํ๋ถ์์ ๊ด์ โ์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ ๋ถํ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํด๋ฌ๋ผ๋ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์๋ค. ํ์ฌ์งํํ์ธ ๋จ๋ถ์ ์ํ๋ด ๋๋ผ๋ง ๋ํ ์ด๋ค ์ธ์ ์๊ฒ ํ๋ถ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฝ์ ํ ์ ๋ช ํ TV ๋ฐฉ์ก๊ตญ ํ์ 4์ 27์ผ ๋จ๋ถ์ ์ํ๋ด ์ทจ์ฌ์ฐจ ๋ฐฉํํ๊ณ , ์ ์ํ๋ด ์ทจ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ถฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋์๊ฒ โ์ด๋ฉด์ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ์ด์ผ๊ธฐโ๋ฅผ ์๊ตฌํ๋ค.
Why I Decline 'North Korean Defector' Interview Requests
Over the past few years, journalists from all sorts of global media have contacted me to get my โdefector point of viewโ on all things North Korean. And the current inter-Korean drama has been yet another occasion. A famous European TV station crew, flying to South Korea for the Apr.
Beyond Blood and Bloody Relations
My grandmother was born in Inje County, Gangwon Province, in what is now South Korea. She was displaced by the division of the peninsula, ending up in the North. I vividly remember her repeatedly saying she wanted to visit Jeju Island before leaving this world. The irony is that I,
Inter-Korean Marriage and Pursuit of Assimilation
A North Korean woman, alone in her cheap government housing, asks, โI want to get married. Where is my love?โ She daydreams of being only in her underwear, straddling her ideal South Korean man, and calling out to him in affection, โMy dear husband.โ That controversial advertisement by a matchmaking
The Republic of Konsumerism
Upon entering a supermarket in Seoul for the first time, I was completely lost. What I thought would be a simple challenge became nerve-wrecking: choosing a tube of toothpaste. Everywhere I looked, each product claimed to be better and cheaper than the last. โThree for the price of twoโ, โ20%
A North Korean Views South Korea
It has been more than a decade since I left North Korea, but every time I read George Orwellโs Animal Farm I am reminded of my life back โhomeโ. The novel points to the North Korean regimeโs hypocrisy without using complex language. Published on 17 August 1945, just