In previous years this post has been, to a greater or lesser extent, a list of every non-fiction title I could find that was going to be hitting the bookshops in the coming year. As the LKL Korea Book Database has grown in size, including its stock of future publications, there are now far too … [Read More]
Tag: North Korean border-crossers exiles and defectors
Selected publications
- Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai: The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea tr Sarah Baldwin-Beneich, HarperNorth 2022
- Chun Kyung-hyo, Haeran Shin, Kim Heuijeong, Kim Seok-hyang, Lee Hyunuk: North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements, Lexington Books 2022
- Markus Bell: Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea, Berghahn Books 2021
- Adam Zulawnik, Lim Il: Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho tr Adam Zulawnik, Routledge 2021
- Anthology: Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands ed Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, Steven Denney, Amsterdam University Press 2021
- Cho Hae-jin: I Met Loh Kiwan tr Lee Ji-eun, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Andrei Lankov, Daniel Tudor: Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World’s Most Secretive Nation, Tuttle 2018
- Masaji Ishikawa: A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea tr Martin Brown, Risa Kobayashi, Amazon Crossing 2018
- Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea, Amulet 2016
- Krys Lee: How I became a North Korean, Faber 2016
- Yeonmi Park: In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, Penguin 2016
- Ahlam Lee: North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society: Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process, Lexington Books 2015
- Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland: Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom, WW Norton 2015
- Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti: A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape From North Korea tr David Tian, St Martin's Griffin 2015
- David John, Hyeonseo Lee: The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea, Harper Collins 2015
- Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty: Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America, Mariner 2015
- Jang Jin-sung: Dear Leader tr Shirley Lee, Penguin 2014
- Hark Joon Lee: Crossing Heaven’s Border, Shorenstein APARC 2013
- Anthology: De-Bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy ed Valérie Gelézeau, Koen De Ceuster, Alain Delissen, Routledge 2013
- Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard: Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea, Peterson Institute 2010
- Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea, Granta 2010
- Kim Yong, Suk-young Kim: Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor, Columbia University Press 2009
- Mike Kim: Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country, Rowman + Littlefield 2008
- Kang Hyok, Philippe Grangereau: This is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood tr Shaun Whiteside, Abacus 2007
- Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag tr Yair Reiner, Atlantic 2006
Sokeel Park: Insight from working with North Korean defectors
A Guest Speaker event associated with the upcoming LSESU Korea Future Forum Not Just Nukes: Insights from a decade working with North Korean defectors Thursday 13 Feburary 2020, 6:30 – 8:00 pm LSE Clement House Room 2.02 | 265 Strand | London WC2R 1DH Admission free | Register via event’s Facebook page LSESU Korea Future … [Read More]
SOAS seminar: South Korean Resettlement Policy for North Korean exiles
Late notice of a seminar at SOAS today: The Complex Effects of South Korean Resettlement Policy on the Social Class of North Koreans in South Korea Dr Jennifer Hough (SOAS Centre of Korean Studies Research Fellow) Wednesday 9 October 2019, 3:10pm Room S113, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SOAS University of London Open to students, … [Read More]
Little Pyongyang Screening with Q+A with Mr Choi
Join the Korea Future Initiative and Connect: North Korea on Dec 3rd for the first screening of ‘Little Pyongyang’ to feature a Q&A with the documentary’s star, Mr Choi Joong-hwa. The screening will take place in New Malden Methodist Church. Doors open at 7.15pm. Tickets in advance are £5; £7 on the doors. Proceeds will … [Read More]
In-sook Chappell: The Free Nine, at the National Theatre
In-sook Chappell’s second new play this year gets a performance on the South Bank: The Free 9 by In-Sook Chappell National Theatre: Dorfman Theatre | Upper Ground | South Bank | London SE1 9PX Fri 29 June, 7pm £5.00 (or £8 for both Connections shows on the same night) | Book tickets In-Sook Chappell tkes … [Read More]
London band Ooberfuse join Yoon Band in Seoul Amnesty gig
Woolwich-based electropop duo Ooberfuse will be playing on Seoul with YB (Yoon Do-hyun’s band) as part of an Amnesty International project in support of refugees everywhere. The music video for the band’s upcoming single features the well-known North Korean exile and campaigner Jihyun Park, along with her daughter. This is an interesting project and I … [Read More]
Look forward, not back: how best to work with North Korean exiles
If I had been given a fiver every time a journalist or PhD student asked to be put in touch with North Korean refugees in the London area I wouldn’t be exactly rich, but there would be a few more books overflowing from my already full bookcase. Whether it be for reaction to the latest … [Read More]
Gallery: Song Byeok’s exhibition at the Human Rights Action Centre
LKL paid a brief visit to Song Byeok’s exhibition at Amnesty International’s Shoreditch building on 9 May – a quick lunchtime hop from the day job in Canary Wharf. Unfortunately we didn’t make it to the discussion evening at SOAS (we were flying back from our annual Korea visit at the time). But here are … [Read More]
Event news: Song Byeok’s debut UK exhibition + discussion evening
Connect: North Korea, a new organisation brought to you by the people behind the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, celebrates its launch with an exhibition by North Korean exile artist Song Byeok and a discussion event: Song Byeok: Discussion evening and debut UK exhibition Exhibition: Human Rights Action Centre | 17-25 New … [Read More]
Event news: Escapee Kim Young-il talks at King’s London
News of an upcoming talk by North Korean escapee Kim Young-il: My Escape from North Korea Hosted by King’s College Londond Amnesty International Society 24 March at 18:00–20:00 K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand campus, King’s College London Register via Eventbrite KCL Amnesty International will be hosting a panel discussion with Young-II Kim, a North Korean … [Read More]
Minister Thae moves south
Here are a few links relating to Minister Thae Yong-ho’s defection. Minister Thae was the cultural attache at the DPRK embassy in London, and according to reports effectively the deputy head of mission. At LKL, we came across him during the second art exhibition held at the embassy back in 2014. He was probably there … [Read More]
In-Sook Chappell’s short film is being crowdfunded – please support it
Back in April this year, we posted an advertisement seeking an actor for an upcoming short film about a young North Korean girl living in Britain. That role, Mi Young, has now been filled – and she could almost have been born to take the role. Writer and director In-sook Chappell commented: “After meeting Mi … [Read More]
Event news: A talk with North Korean refugee Sungju Lee
The EARHNK’s first event of the year is in the Houses of Parliament on 1 February: A Talk With Sungju Lee: North Korean Refugee and UK Chevening Scholar Venue: Committee Room 17, the Houses of Parliament, London Date: Monday, February 1, 2016 Time: 5pm The European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea is proud … [Read More]
Book review: Hwang Sok-yong — Princess Bari
Hwang Sok-yong: Prices Bari Periscope, 2015, 240pp Translated by Sora Kim-Russell Originally published as 바리데기, 2007 Princess Bari is Hwang Sok-yong’s fourth full-length novel to be translated into English. It is also the most recent, having been originally published in 2007. And for a British audience it is one of the most immediately accessible, being … [Read More]
Yeonmi Park is Radio 4 book of the week
Yeonmi Park’s refugee memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom is Radio 4’s book of the week this week, airing at 9:45am. If you missed this morning’s episode there’s a repeat at 12:30 tonight, or of course you can listen to it for the next 30 days on the Radio … [Read More]
Event news: You for Me for You – a new play about North Korean border-crossers
Coming to the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square this December, a new play about North Korean border-crossers by Korean-American playwright Mia Chung. You For Me For You, By Mia Chung Directed by Richard Twyman Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Thursday 3 December 2015 – Saturday 9 January 2016 – Trees don’t have ears. – How are … [Read More]