Film shows no happy ending for N. Korea refugees
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SEOUL — North Korean refugee Jeon Seung-Chul, battling terminal stomach cancer in South Korea in 2008, had a final request for a film student friend: make a movie about my life even if I never get to see it.
Park Jung-Bum has done just that with The Journals of Musan, a raw and gritty look at a refugee’s struggle to survive in the new world of South Korea.
“This is like my letter for Jeon Seung-Chul,” said Park, whose former college roommate died later in 2008 at the age of just 30.
“Seung-Chul went through so many hardships to come to the South...only to die so young. I felt I had to do something for his memory.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110517com3.html
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