37 min
Seoul 3 - Inah Kim un-politically connecting people to North Korea ROOTLESS PODCAST
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- Culture et société
This episode approaches South Korea’s highly politicised and mystified neighbouring country. Inah Kim and her co-founder, Sarah Lee, started ReconnectNZ in 2016 to do humanitarian work in New Zealand but have in the past two years simultaneously turned their attention to North Korea.
We kept our conversation as unpolitical as possible to focus on the humanitarian difference Inah’s wishes to make. The origination aims to help Koreans connect and understand each other despite the four-kilometre-wide demilitarized zone that separates them. Inah went to North Korea in 2016 and 2017 to do research, connect and learn about the culture and its people to be able to bring balance to the stigmatised public perception.
The young founder speaks very fondly about the people she met in North Korea, the country and her personal connection to the nation but doesn’t glorify the regime, although she feels that this it’s often its only identity in the media.
It’s been a challenge to orchestrate this from across the border where advocating for communism is illegal and any positive portrayal of North Korea may be misinterpreted as such.
This episode approaches South Korea’s highly politicised and mystified neighbouring country. Inah Kim and her co-founder, Sarah Lee, started ReconnectNZ in 2016 to do humanitarian work in New Zealand but have in the past two years simultaneously turned their attention to North Korea.
We kept our conversation as unpolitical as possible to focus on the humanitarian difference Inah’s wishes to make. The origination aims to help Koreans connect and understand each other despite the four-kilometre-wide demilitarized zone that separates them. Inah went to North Korea in 2016 and 2017 to do research, connect and learn about the culture and its people to be able to bring balance to the stigmatised public perception.
The young founder speaks very fondly about the people she met in North Korea, the country and her personal connection to the nation but doesn’t glorify the regime, although she feels that this it’s often its only identity in the media.
It’s been a challenge to orchestrate this from across the border where advocating for communism is illegal and any positive portrayal of North Korea may be misinterpreted as such.
37 min