[KS] Silence Broken with author and filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson at TKS

[Alina Oh]

For the New Yorkers on the list!


You are cordially invited to...


Silence Broken : Korean Comfort W omen
with filmmaker & author
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Acclaimed filmmaker and author Dai Sil Kim-Gibson shows excerpts form her 
documentary film Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women, airing on PBS this 
month, and discusses her book, an oral history that chronicles the lives of 
Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army 
during World War II. A 1999 Asian American Media Award co-recipient who has 
also received Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundation fellowships, Ms. 
Kim-Gibson was born in northern Korea during the Japanese Occupation and 
has lived in the United States since 1962. Her other films include A 
Forogtten People: The Sakhalin Koreans (1995) and America Becoming (1991, 
with Charles Burnett).


Monday May 8, 2000   .   7:00 p.m
at
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York City


This program is co-presented with the Japan Society and the Asian American 
Arts Alliance. Followed by discussion and booksigning.

Fee: $8 (members of The Korea Society and Japan Society); $10 (non-member); 
$5 (student).
To order tickets, contact Richard Hitchcock at 212-759-7525 ext. 12 or 
richard.ny at koreasociety.org or register directly with the Japan Society Box 
Office at 212-752-3015.


Alina Oh
Program Associate
The Korea Society
212-759-7525 ext. 15
alina.ny at koreasociety.org
www.koreasociety.org



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