2-4:30pm

San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin St. S.F., CA 94102)

For more information: (415) 314-0855 or diane@kccsf.org

The Korean Cultural Center of San Francisco (KCCSF) will present a series of documentary films focused on North Korean refugees in conjunction with 60th year memorial of the Korean War.

Hunger is driving more and more North Koreans to escape to China, crossing a river frontier at the mercy of traffickers and corrupt police. The KCCSF will preset extraordinary footage of the traffic, shot by South Korean’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper. Following the film, Peter Beck, Pantech Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Asian Pacific Research Center, will speak. Screenings are free and open to the public.

“On the Border” is the documentary film that sums up the human right issues on North Korean defectors. Ten months filming undercover on the Chinese side of the river bordering North Korea. This film follows the long journey of those who make it to freedom and some of those who don’t. The documentary was produced in 2008 in English (101 min.) The documentary has drawn worldwide acclaim, winning 14 awards both in South Korea and abroad.

North Korean Refugees

Famine in North Korea is estimated to have killed some 2 to 3 million of the nation’s 24 million people since 1995. Another 300,000 North Koreans have fled to China to live illegally, risking their lives to flee the mass starvation and brutal oppression of Kim Jong Il’s Stalinist North Korea regime.

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