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Welcome to our online library curated by LiNK @ USC's Advocacy Team!
Our team's goal is to gain a deeper and more critical understanding of issues pertaining to both North and South Korea. As the advocacy team, we hope to make educational resources more accessible to the general public by reading, watching, analyzing, and synthesizing material.
THE JANGMADANG GENERATION
"Our parents generation was given everything by the government, but not our generation. We had to find our own food, and make our own money."
A short documentary film featuring the eyewitness accounts of 8 North Korean defectors.
Completed in January 2017.
"An implausible love story in which a (literally) high-flying South Korean heiress accidentally paraglides into North Korea, lands on a soldier and falls in love with him has become the latest Korean drama smash hit.
Crash Landing on You is in many ways a typical K-drama romance, but has been widely praised for its well-researched and nuanced portrayal of North Korea, something it achieved by having a real-life North Korean defector on its writing team, as BBC Korean's Subin Kim explains." 22 February 2020, BBC News (article)
CRASH LANDING ON YOU :
NORTH KOREANS REACT
Stills: IMDb
Real North Koreans weigh in -- including two who advised the CLOY production team. [Eng Sub]
HUMANS OF NORTH KOREA
A live webinar presented by Korean American activists who identify as millennial or younger, centering on diverse perceptions of the people of North Korea.
Presented in July 2020.
Featuring:
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2019-2021 LiNK@USC president Jay L.
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Artist-activist Jaehwan Lim, founder of the former HNK refugee advocacy group
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USC grad and political communications specialist Soo L.