My friends at Arowanafilms produced this video in collaboration with comedian Danny Cho, and actress/editor Grace Su. It may not be necessarily politically correct, but they do manage to bring some attention to a serious situation that is happening in North Korea.
And for any of you guys that are in the Los Angeles area on Monday night, they’ll be sitting on a panel discussing independent filmmaking at Visual Communications.
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this is cool !!!!
I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN NORTH KOREA. MY SONS FATHER STILL HAS FAM. OVER THERE. HE WAS TELLING ME WHAT ONE OF HIS FAM. MEMBERS WAS TELLING HIM. THAT HE WATCH HIS BEST FRIEND GET KILLED FOR NO REASON AND THERE IS NO HELP. THAT YOU HAVE TO WATCH YOUR BACK REAL WELL RIGHT NOW. HE SAID ALOT MORE. I JUST CANT REMEMBER. WOULD HAVE TO ASK HIM.
THAT SOUND PRETTY COOL THAT THEY WILL BE TALKING ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILM MAKING. I LIKE WATCHING INDEPENDENT FILMS.
thanks for posting :]
I used to help someone who hosted a web site talking about how DPRK actually looks like around 10 years ago. My portion was to translate the content from Japanese to English. Some of the message from the person - who used to be doing a video making business in DPRK and some trading - were like how disguised the image is when introduced to the Western countries. I am not saying that no bad thing is happening there. But spreading this kind of image only does not help making anything better. My recommendation is to read “Hanto Wo Deyo.” It is a novel (fiction) written by Ryu Murakami. Seems like hasn’t been translated to English. But it is available in Japanese and Korean. This story is based on a very intensive research on DPRK including many interview with DPRK escapers. It’s not only about KJI being a dictator. I heard they are making a movie based on this novel. But not sure where they are because it seems that they have started planning of that in 2006. Anyway, sorry, but I did not like this clip at all just because it touches only one aspect of DPRK and from very American point of view.
an interesting blog coming out of korea is http://rokdrop.com/ which looks at some of these issues (+ much more!)… however as ak1998 says, this is also from an american (american service person + other contributors) so i don’t know if/how that may affect content. what i do like about this blog, however, is that they’re upfront about who they are (so this allows you to judge the content for yourself).
Very few comedy filmmakers would have the nerve to put a statement like that at the end of their film. I totally respect that. My heart hurts for what’s going on in North Korea.
nice, but with the situation goining down in North Korea …is sad.
one of my many brothers is in the army. he is stationed in south korea on the army base. he has been there for 4 years already and has 4 more to go. they do alot of sweeps in south korea and north korea. going in the building and homes of people. that is all he could tell me. they are not to talk about what they are doing in korea
Whilst very little info/news of what is goingon in North Korea seems to appear in the media here. What I have heard is horrendious. The most recent artical I read stated that in prisons they are killing babies as soon as they are born. I’ve also read about so called honour killings. I believe their is nothing honourable about killing another human being(mostly woman) for so called egotistical/social status/custom purposes. By all means a man can be head of the house hold etc etc (I’m no feminist) but it does mean you should automatically kill a woman for getting pregnant. When was the last time you ever heard of them doing an honour killing of a male for getting an unmarried woman pregnant in any of the countries that honour killings frequently occur. My heart goes out to the many orphans of the korean war who were lied to about what really happened to their mothers…honour killing/opps murdered!
Opps..does NOT mean you should automatically ……
I love every one of your posts - always interesting and thought provoking and fun. Hope to see another one soon!
…and this is why people should never meet over the internet 0__o
Yeah this is funny but sad at the same time~ oosh~
Hi Sung, you haven’t been here for a while I suppose neither have I, duty/work calls. Maybe you’ve been doing promo work for Fast and Furious. I just saw it and thought it was good, pity there wasn’t more of you in it. I’m currently reading a book by a an American who was sent to a South Korean prison for been naughty and it’s been quite insightful to how Koreans still refer to the whole of Korea as one country despite the DMZ, etc etc. I also found the authors references to how Kim Il Sung may or may not have died. One of the rumours was that he was arguing with his son, Kim Jong Il wouldn’ t let anyone near his father for hours afterwards hmm foul play maybe. Ultimate Power ultimately corrupts. I have also found it interesting from my personal reading on Kim Il Sung that it seems what he so hated the most in his childhood (in regards to his early experiences and observations of how the Japanese behaved towards his countrymen), he ultimately became. Seems very karmic to me! I got the impression that one of the most disliked qualities a person could have in Korean society was arrogance. Seems to be a bit of it going round. Politics aside and on to other topics… So what is your next film project Sung? I can’t wait to see it.
While it’s easy to make a laughing stock of the N.Korea leader, the actual situation down there can never be properly represented, because it’s isolated itself from the rest of the world. And it makes it worse to know that we’re absolutely powerless in the face of crimes against humanity.
im a new here.just finish reading all the blog articles and comments.
maybe im the first Chinese people who leave a footprint here. i wonder that all the articles are really written by urself.
hihihihihi.
This is so funny!
Sung, Its time for an update
Hey Sung, I know it’s not related to this post, but Michael Jackson’s passing…..he was a legend. I will always remember where I was when I found out, and the impact of his music. Blog, perhaps?
Has anyone read those books “where’s Wally”? It seems they need a new one called “Where’s Sung!” We miss you Sung and wonder how you are. Recently I saw in the news about some of older south Koreans been able to visit relatives in north Korea and sadly it may be the last time they get to see their sibling etcs. Also the news about the missle launches is very unnerving. I can fully understand South Korea’s and Japan’s concerns. I believe from military contacts that North Korea is probably the most heavily fortified country in the world. Any pilot stupid enough to think about flying into North Korean air space is kissing their butt goodbye. I so wish this situation had not been allowed to escalate to the level it has and cause the devastation and trauma it has caused so many beautiful wonderful and precious people. It’s so unnecessary.
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