Where Is Home?

Norimitsu Onishi has written an interesting portrait of a North Korean refugee in Inchon and of the reality of being caught between two societies and ideologies.

This entry was written by R. Elgin, posted on June 24, 2007 at 11:22 am, filed under Asides. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. michael your flag
    Posted June 25, 2007 at 10:10 am | Permalink

    This show on N.K. is worth seeing if you can:
    http://blogs.nationalgeographi.....korea.html

    You really get a sense of how N.K. is like another planet.

  2. dokdoforever your flag
    Posted June 26, 2007 at 10:34 am | Permalink

    It must be very difficult to make the adjustment to S. Korea. But, I was surprised by some of Lee Chan’s reactions - for instance, he was upset when a security guard ordered him or his male friend to take off his earrings when arriving in S Korea. I guess I can understand someone from a liberal western country getting angry about that, but I can’t imagine that there are too many guys with earrings in N Korea. The nostalgia for the North, complaints about earrings, etc, makes me wonder how much I can believe about accounts of the North. On the other hand, some of his disillusionment with S Korea could be the result of overly high expectations about the place.

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