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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Joon Park (808) 382-5452
Soo Sun Choe soosunc@gmail.com
Korea Peace Day Event to Premiere Film by North Korean Refugee Youth
(Honolulu) A group of University of Hawaii students and faculty will be hosting a Korea Peace Day event on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 5:30 PM at the Center for Korean Studies located at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This event is part of a larger movement across the U.S. to promote greater mutual understanding between the U.S. and the two Koreas.
The event will feature the U.S. premiere of the film, “The Longest Journey,” filmed and produced by North Korean refugee youth living in Seoul, South Korea. The documentary follows the North Korean born youths in revisiting their former places of refuge in China. The event will also feature a photo exhibition, “The Forgotten Faces of North Korea”, from the National Lawyers Guild’s Korea Peace Project, depicting the human side of North Korea.
Second and third generation Korean Americans, including some featured in the PBS documentary film “Homes Apart”, and writers Gary Pak and Brenda Kwon, will share family stories and poetry of how the divisions of war have impacted their families. There will also be a cultural performance by the Korean drumming ensemble Tuh Ool Lim.
Korea Peace Day was conceived by the Association of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK) in 2003, in response to the high levels of tension between the U.S. and North Korea. Since then, annual educational forums have been held on campuses across the country to facilitate dialogue and awareness of the unresolved conflict on the Korean peninsula. “Without the commitment of the involved parties to a formal peace process, we recognize that the situation on the Korean peninsula remains an unstable and volatile one,” said Soo Sun Choe, one of the coordinators of the local group.
The reception and photo exhibit will open at 5:30 PM with the program and film following at 6 PM. The event is free of charge and open to the public. Sponsoring organizations include the Korea Peace Day Working Group and the American Friends Service Committee. For more information, please contact: Soo Sun Choe at soosunc@gmail.com or call Joon Park at (808) 382-5452.
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