Heart to Heart Ep157 Pyongyang's English Teacher - Author Suki Kim

′Pyongyang′s English Teacher′ - Author Suki Kim
Last October, a book unlike any other about North Korea was released in the United States. "Without You, There Is No Us" is Korean-American author Suki Kim′s account of her half-year stay in North Korea as an English teacher. The book received overwhelming praise upon its publication, and in January of 2015, was released in South Korea.
Since 2002, when Suki Kim began working as a freelance journalist, she has made several visits to North Korea. But it wasn′t until the summer of 2011 that she entered the country with the intention of working undercover as an English teacher at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. She witnessed firsthand the conditions and routine of everyday life of the children of high-ranking North Korean officials, gleaning an inside experience of a notoriously secluded state.
Suki Kim emigrated to the U.S. with her parents at a young age, going on to study English Literature at Columbia University and East Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London. In 2003, her first full-length novel, "The Interpreter," was published to positive reviews from American literary circles.
This week on [Heart to Heart], we talk to author Suki Kim about her unparalleled story of life in North Korea
′평양의 영어선생님′ - 저자 수키 김
2014년 10월, 미국에서 아주 특별한 북한 관련 서적이 출간됐다.
바로, 재미교포 소설가 수키 김의 북한 체류기, ′당신이 없으면 우리도 없다′!
출간 직후, 해외 언론의 주목과 호평을 받았으며 2015년 1월, 한국어판도 출판됐다.
이는 2011년 7월, 북한 내 최고위층 자제들이 다니는 평양과학기술대에 영어교사로 부임한 수키 김이 6개월간 체류하면서 실제 북한 고위층들의 일상생활 모습을 기록한 내용이 담겨있다.
2002년부터 몇 차례 프리랜스 언론인 자격으로 북한을 방문했던 그녀가 결국 잡임 취재를 하게 된 이유는 무엇일까?
중학생 때 부모를 따라 미국으로 이민간 수키 김은,
뉴욕 컬럼비아대 영문학 전공, 영국 런던대학원 동양문학 공부를 마치고
지난 2003년, 첫 장편소설 ′The Interpreter(통역사)′를 발표하며 미국 문단의 주목을 받은 인물이다.
이번주 [Heart to Heart]에서는 수키 김의 특별한 북한 체류기를 만나본다.

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  • @alextang3739
    @alextang37396 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this episode and I really enjoyed it!!! I just watched by now which is really late but I really enjoy it!

  • @haileyjayceelynhyderr835
    @haileyjayceelynhyderr8357 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this I really enjoyed it! ❤️

  • @urihmiss
    @urihmiss6 жыл бұрын

    I think there are lots of masterpiece of Korean literature that are rarely known to the world. And I think we really have to make an effort to let the world know there are great writers in Korea. We haven't yet had single person who won Nobel Prize in literature.

  • @user-qh6kz8lv6i
    @user-qh6kz8lv6i2 жыл бұрын

    This is a wonderful talk. Definitely

  • @claudineijesus5933
    @claudineijesus59333 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for explain for this..

  • @phanswatch
    @phanswatch Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the name of the interviewer? She did such a great job on her questions and pacing the whole conversation

  • @user-sq7wq2mz3y

    @user-sq7wq2mz3y

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah SeungYun. Shes one of my favorite interviewer.

  • @dougjstl1
    @dougjstl13 жыл бұрын

    Suki cute eyes

  • @ShangDi_became_Jesus
    @ShangDi_became_Jesus3 жыл бұрын

    Suki, may I buy you another Hollister flannel? I feel like you really love your Hollister flannels .Were you an Abercrombie and American Eagle Korean in Highschool?

  • @bloomintokyoseoul
    @bloomintokyoseoul9 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Suki Kim or any westerners have any idea what the North Korean people went through during the Korean War- [Korea Truth Commission Report for June 23, 2001 , War Crimes Tribunal 29 Report of the Committee of the Women's International Democratic Federation in Korea, 1951 Declaration After the observations made by the members of the Commission in different parts of Korea, the Commission has reached the following conclusions: The people of Korea are subjected by American occupants to a merciless and methodical campaign of extermination which is in contradiction not only with the principles of humanity, but also with the rules of warfare as laid down, for instance, in the Hague and the Geneva Conventions. This is being done in the following ways: a) by the systematic destruction of food, food-stores and food-factories. Forests and ripe harvests are systematically burned by incendiary bombs; fruh trees are destroyed and peasants working in their fields with their animals are killed by machine-gun fire from low-flying planes. By these means the whole people of Korea is doomed to starvation. b) By the systematic destruction of town after town, of village after village, many of which by no stretch of imagination could be considered to be military objectives or even industrial centres. The aim of systematic destruction is clearly, in the first place, to break the moral of the Korean population and, secondly, to wear them out physically. In these never-ceasing raids, dwellings, hospitals, schools, etc., are destroyed deliberately. Even towns which have already been turned into heaps ashes and in which the surviving inhabitants are reduced to living in dug-outs, continue to be bombed, c) By systematically employing against the peaceful inhabitants weapons banned by international convention i.e., incendiaries, petrol bombs, napalm bombs, time-bombs, and by constantly machine- gunning civilians from low-flying planes. d) By atrociously exterminating the Korean population, in the district temporarily occupied by American and Syngman Rhee (ROK) forces, in the period of occupation hundreds of thousands of civilians, entire families from old men to little children, have been tortured, beaten to death, burned and buried alive. Thousands of others have perished from hunger and cold in overcrowded prisons in which they were thrown without charges being leveled against them, without investigation, trial or sentence. These mass tortures and mass murders surpass the crimes commit by Hitler Nazis in temporarily occupied Europe. Evidence given by all civilians questioned points to the fact that nearly all of these crimes were either perpetrated by US soldiers and officers or else on the order of US officers. Therefore the full responsibility for these atrocities falls on the US Supreme Command in Korea, i.e General MacArthur, General Ridgeway and other commanders of the invading forces who call themselves the Forces of the UNO. The members of the Commission are: Nora K. Rodd (Canada), Chairman; Liu Chin-yang (China), Vice-chairman; Ida Bachmann (Denmark), Vice-chairman; Miluse Svatosova (Czechoslovakia), Secretary; Trees Soenito-Hey tigers (Netherlands); Assistant Secretary: Dr. Monica Felton (Great Britain); Maria Ovsyannikova (USSR); Bai Lang (China); Li K'eng (China); Gilette Ziegler (France); Elisabeth Gal lo (Italy); Eva Priester (Austria); Hilde Cahn (German Democratic Republic); Lilly Waechter (Western Germany); Dr. Germaine Hannevard (Belgium); Li-thi-Que (Viet-Nam); Candelaria Rodriguez, Doctor-in-Law (Cuba); Leonor Aguiar Vazquez, Doctor-in~Law (Argentine); Fatma ben Sliman (Tunisia); Abassia Fodil (Algeria); Kate Fleron Jacobsen, Observer (Denmark). We, women of different countries, of different nationalities, of different religious beliefs and different political views, some of us members of different political parties and others with no party affiliations, had a common task before us: to tell conscientiously and truthfully to the women who have delegated us to this commission and to all the common and peace-loving people of the world the facts as we have seen them. All the acts given below, the figures and other data, mentioned in this document have been recorded personally by the members of the Commission. These facts are all in accordance with the evidence members saw with their own eyes and with statements given to them by eye-witnesses and officials in Korea. The report itself was completed and signed in the time of May 16 to May 27 on Korean territory, somewhere near Pyongyang. ] archive.org/stream/pdfy-1KgDlKSWqRifyuBa/We%20Accuse%20-%20Report%20of%20the%20Committee%20of%20the%20Women%27s%20International%20Democratic%20Federation%20in%20Korea%20%281951%29_djvu.txt

  • @tiw2572

    @tiw2572

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ElPocho DelMundo 100% correct, they are not fooling anyone.

  • @bloomintokyoseoul

    @bloomintokyoseoul

    3 жыл бұрын

    @ElPocho DelMundo Well then it appears US Air Force Generals as well as heads of the US State Department are spreading deceitful propaganda as well...not. These are the bare facts- [ The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. ] www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-forget/2015/03/20/fb525694-ce80-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html

  • @bloomintokyoseoul
    @bloomintokyoseoul9 жыл бұрын

    An instructor comments on Suki Kim's book about teaching in North Korea- [ Joe Terwilliger: I taught at PUST and am an atheist and never hid it, and I taught evolutionary genetics... Her stories are not what I experienced at all... We had freedom to go basically wherever we wanted - when we would go shopping minders dropped us off and said just come back in 90 minutes to the bus and we could go anywhere. Nobody ever gave me shit for not being Christian, and we drank beer whenever we wanted in campus or off. I taught my students philosophy of science and how science works by first questioning everything we believe about truth since science always advances by proving things wrong, not proving them right... And I discussed every topic under the sun openly with my students, and never felt restricted or censored at all. We had unrestricted Internet as well, and nobody monitored what we did or said -- that book was paranoid ramblings of someone who made up her mind what she was going to see before she got there and of course when you enter with a closed mind, you will always see what you expect to see and not what is reality. I enjoyed living there, learned a lot about Korea, and had nothing but positive interactions with the faculty, students and minders, who, if you befriend them and treat them with respect are absolutely going to do everything they can to give you a positive experience. Trust begets trust, and deceit begets deceit...]

  • @Keleck1

    @Keleck1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Someone in the after-life wants to speak with you. Says his name is "Otto." I think you get da point -- Mr. or Ms. "leftist."

  • @bliss4383

    @bliss4383

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Nobody ever gave me shit for not being Christian..." Why would they? NK is not Christian either. Terwilliger is his own god, (born ego-centric and stayed that way,) as a many people are. And Satan is the father of all lies.

  • @phanswatch

    @phanswatch

    Жыл бұрын

    Timelines don’t add up, Suki Kim taught in 2011. And Joe didn’t teach until 2013. They had different experiences. He can’t discount someone’s experience esp since they were a couple of years apart.

  • @fuuz642
    @fuuz6423 жыл бұрын

    I like chinese chicks

  • @dougjstl1
    @dougjstl14 жыл бұрын

    is suki dating have a boy friend . 애인있어요. good title i like it. if i dont like you i dont like me self.

  • @AReneeDesign23
    @AReneeDesign234 жыл бұрын

    You are BARELY AUDIBLE!!! Please QUIT THE BACKGROUND MUSIC---- NOT NEEDED!!

  • @katiekawaii

    @katiekawaii

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dude. There's no background music throughout the entire interview.