[KS] Film screening: "The Schoolgirl's Diary" (Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi)

[James Person]

Film Screening: The Schoolgirl’s Diary
-With commentary from Suk-Young Kim,
University of California at Santa Barbara
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The North Korea International Documentation Project invites you to attend a screening of the North Korean film "The Schoolgirl’s Diary" (Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi) followed by
commentary by Suk-Young Kim, assistant professor of theater and dance
at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an expert on
North Korean propaganda.

April 09, 2008 4:00 – 6:30pm
6th Floor Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004

Visit www.wilsoncenter.org/nkidp for more information, and to RSVP

The Schoolgirl’s Diary (2006, in Korean, no subtitles) is the story of a self-absorbed North Korean teenager, Soo-Ryeon, who yearns to move to an apartment from her home in the countryside and questions the values of her father and mother, a scientist and a librarian at the academy of sciences who put the good of the nation before that of their family. Soo-Ryeon realizes how selfish she is only after her mother falls ill and her father makes a major breakthrough in his research. The film’s screenwriters reportedly received guidance in drafting the script from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Suk-Young Kim is assistant professor of theater and dance at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is currently completing a book project titled Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea, which explores how state produced propaganda performances intersect with everyday life practice in North Korea. Another book project, Long Road Home: A Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (coauthored with Kim Yong) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

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