Suki Kim was born in South Korea to parents whose family had been separated by the Korean War. In the early 80s her father, a successful businessman, suffered a sudden financial reverse and went bankrupt, a “crime” that could have drawn prison time. She was woken in the middle of the night, shuttled off to […]
NORTH KOREA
SONGS FROM THE NORTH : BEYOND THE CULT OF THE KIMS
North Korea is perhaps the most secretive, least-known country on earth. A totalitarian dictatorship, its cult of personality has elevated three generations of the Kim family, starting with Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), to the status of gods. . Soon-Mi Yoo, a professor of film and video at the Massachusetts College of Arts, grew up in […]