Project Description
The short journal is about 30K words, The central idea of this book is talking about how Koreans, as an ethnic group which also share the same geographical land has been divided by three countries, China, South Korea and North Korea. But deep down their root, the Korean ethnic nationalism belief cannot be washed by any government and politics. Meanwhile, because of the ‘borders,’ their view of Nation, nationalism, their situation within global and identity have been formed very differently.
One week in DPRK, I documented the whole journey in this book. The conversation between two ‘tour guides’ Kim and Lim who are around my age is the clue of where I get the general view for how young north Korean think of their country and the relations with others. The conversation between us three same age girls is funny, lively and sometimes murky.
Another layer makes this conversation paradoxical is that the ‘tour guides’ who are actually sent by the government to keep foreigners under surveillance, they have been trained to avoid things that they are supposed to not mention to us, but they are also human with emotions, true feeling reveals over time.
