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Category Archives: US relations
The last days of Daechuri
23-Mar-07
As a follow up to my previous post linking to Bum Lee's project, here's a link to a short film made by Chris and Shirley Gelken at Daechuri last weekend. Well worth a look. There's some great written coverage and photos on their blogs. A sample of Chris's photos is shown above. See the full set in the sites below.
Links:
The Gelken video at Daum.
Chris Gelken's blog
Days in Daechuri, the blog of the Save the Pyongtaek Farmers organisation
Save the Pyongtaek Farmers site
More pictures on the BBC site
BBC feature: eviction village - a farmer's tale
The art of Daechuri
16-Mar-07
Many thanks to David Kilburn for pointing out a video project by Bum Lee, animation artist and illustrator. It's a short film that he shot at Daechuri, a farming village which is to be evacuated to make way for the expanded US base at Pyongtaek.
David's take:
I found it creative both in film making and social commentary, and revealing in how the farmers use folk art and events to promote their cause.
And Bum Lee's statement:
I visited Daechuri on Saturday March 3. Behind the perimeter of fences guarded by police, many of the homes had been demolished and the unharvested fields were trenched off with barbed wire. But there was art everywhere amidst the ruin -- murals, sculptures, junk art, and a ...
