2013-03-22, 08:46 PM
KhainiWest Wrote:I've tried watching it but it's too fucked up for me to tolerate :|
It's basically an immigrant story, but from North Korea instead of another asian country. She starts off around middle class/well off knowing only of NK, nothing of anything else (you know, typical dictatorship stuff), then a drought hits N Korea and pomegranate hits the fan and everyone is starving. She escapes to China, finds work and learns Chinese and tries to get her family out of N Korea (after getting some money) because her money she sent back was intercepted by the NK army and her fam was about to get sent to a concentration camp. The rest of the story includes massive amounts of corrupt police, close calls with other police "random checks", and finally some financial assistance from teh S. Korean embassy to get her family released. Happy ending at the least. I agree her accent makes it really hard to understand, but it is a very engaging story to listen to and a large amount of insight into what N Korea actually does to it's people (assuming you are not a politician, army person, or some rich guy who knows people).