Recent North Korean defector is a 17 year-old soldier who said he was inspired after watching South Korean dramas

[Hyooga]

 

 

 

The video talks about his background and does a reenactment of how he defected in the North-South Korean border.

 

He's 17 years old and loves South Korean movies/TV shows.

 

 

Comments

 

 

How do they have access to South Korean movies and dramas?

 

 

 

USB and CD's smuggled through China then sold on the many privately owned black markets that have popped up all over North Korea. The shows are also burned onto the memory sticks and sent over the DMZ via balloons. I hear that the North Koreans are now punished more harshly than they used to be because the regime is so desperate to block all information. But even faced with death, the North Koreans still continue to buy them and watch them. The biggest fans are in the North Korean secret police and higher apparatus who use their high connections to avoid arrests for themselves and their families. They're the ones who are supposed to be the gatekeepers but they're the biggest K-culture fans, as well as the distributors. During the day they crack down hard on people spreading K-culture by arresting people and confiscating the smuggled shows. But during the night, they're also the same people who are making a killing selling the K-culture that they had confiscated during the day. I read this in one of the NK news sites dealing with North Korea issues.

 

 

 

 

North Korea has a real problem in their hands, as most of their young drafted soldiers grew up watching South Korean dramas and movies. When you have your soldiers that are ideologically tainted, you've got a real danger in your hands. This is why it's understandable why North Korea is determined to develop nuclear weapons - because the regime knows they can't depend on their failing conventional military to not fold.

[bottomluhan]

now i see why they ban kdramas 

[Leicester]

This makes me sad, I wish they were able to enjoy things openly. Let's make sure to think twice and be thankful for the everyday things we have, like the freedom to express ourselves with music and movies without having the threat of death looming over us

[High Fructose Yoongi Syrup]

id defect to

 

they all should tbh

[Prince Ten ♚]

:(

[Jiraishin]

Interesting interview on the subject:

 

 

[bananabrows]

Interesting interview on the subject:

 

 

Thanks for this link. Very informative + helped me discover some powerful defector stories. 

[25%Cotton]

wow, and that's with shitty k-drama writing. imagine the potential of actually well written k-dramas.

[Winter Bear]

If I lived there I'd be dropping as many kdramas across the border as I could. They need a mass revolution to free themselves.

 

 

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[Solfa]

That has been known for ages now, k-dramas and variety found in the black market are playing a huge role in defection. Why is this treated as news now?