From Monday’s Korea Herald A Gloomy Picture of Unified Korea. This is an interesting piece to pair with Kim Young-ha’s interview covered here two days ago. Lee Eung-joon takes Kim’s question, are North and South Korea still one nation divided, and pushes the concept by re-uniting the two Koreas to see what happens.
The results are pretty ugly. As the Herald summarizes them:
Published by Minumsa, the novel envisions a new Korea saddled with the repercussions of a unification scenario. North Koreans are suddenly dragged down the social ladder: Many once-powerful members of the North Korean army become gangsters; missing guns and rifles circulate wildly; countless North Koreans opt not to get citizen IDs, instead hiding in the invisible corners of a confused society.
and that the movie might require concentration to follow.
