A controversial musical set in a North Korean gulag has at last been staged, overcoming pressure from powerful circles to bin the production for fear of offending Pyongyang. Wednesday night saw the opening of “Yoduk Story” at the Seoul KyoYuk Munhwa Hoekwan auditorium.
It has been a difficult road for producer Chung Seong-san, himself a North Korean defector, that saw him reportedly exposed to death threats and official pressure. “Yoduk Story” centers on Kang Yeon-hwa, the daughter of a party official and a promising dancer. When her father is falsely accused of being a South Korean spy, she and her family are detained in the notorious Yoduk concentration camp, where she is raped and becomes pregnant.
If you are able to I recommend checking out this musical. Although I have not seen it yet, and most likely I will understand little when I do (it's in Korean), the back story is quite interesting.
Rumor has it the producer put up his rights to his kidney (that's right, his own kidney) to some mobsters to finance the show. Good luck to him, just for guts like that, I'll shell out the dough to check it out.
Plus, ya just might learn someting! ;)
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Hey Juggy, is kushibo a man or woman.
You know, I'm not too sure. Lift up his dress and check k. ;)
I was hoping you would write a story about the imposter known as nora park pretending to be Kushibo. Its a story about a gay man pretending to be a gay woman pretending to be a man,pretending to be a woman who is gay, but who is really just a gay strange guy with no friends.
Ab overwhelming story. This really makes me sad.
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