In our debut episode, we sit down and look at the life and works of North Korean celebrity defector Yeonmi Park and talk about the lives of North Korean defectors in order to answer our burning questions: Does North Korea have no concept of love? Is America a woke communist hellhole run by capitalists? And most importantly: can we stan Yeonmi’s grift?
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Further Reading:
The speech that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhKWfPSQOw
The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/
Why Do North Korean Defector Testimonies So Often Fall Apart? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUMZS-ZegM&t=929
Lankov, Andrei. The Real North Korea : Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Cumings, Bruce. North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press, 2004.
Hough, Jennifer and Markus Bell. “North Koreans’ Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea,” Critical Asian Studies 52, no. 2 (2020): 168-181. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2020.1740606
Kim, Sungkyung. “‘Defector,’ ‘Refugee,’ or ‘Migrant’? North Korean Settlers in South Korea’s Changing Social Discourse.” North Korean Review 8, no. 2 (2012): 94-110.
Kim, Nora Hui-Jung. “Co-ethnics, refugees, or immigrants? Multiple Identities of North Koreans in multicultural South Korea,” Asian Ethnicity 12, no. 2 (2017): 167-170. DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2016.1151238
90s North Korean love movies:
O Youth! 청춘이여! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32wJ9yK8Sc
Urban Girl Comes to Get Married 도시처녀 시집와요
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Gjw9GucKk&ab_channel=mavp1917
