Stream now with KPBS Passport, a member benefit that unlocks exclusive shows and extra content on the PBS App. This documentary from inside North Korea, is produced and directed by filmmaker and professor Savanna Washington, who visited the isolated country under a tourist visa. Through interviews with North Korean refugees, long-time aid workers, scholars, and experts, the film provides both a historical overview of the country and an authentic, on-the-ground perspective of the lives, struggles, and humanity of the people of North Korea. The film also underscores how everyday human moments – such as a simple game between visitors and locals – can contribute to greater understanding and inspire change.
A group of about 50 Peace Corps volunteers including their spouses and children enjoyed a week in Korea, revisiting the land they had lived in decades earlier on the invitation of Korea Foundation (KF).
Christy Gavitt shot about 2,700 photos on 75 rolls of film during her six-month stay in North Korea in 1998 and 1999. She was there with the Private Voluntary Organization Consortium (PVOC), an NGO supervising food-for-work programs all across the isolated nation.
Dozens of Americans are returning to Korea this month, decades after they first came here to do volunteer work with the Peace Corps. Around 50 participants including Peace Corps Korea volunteers and their family members will be here for the Peace Corps Revisit program, organized by the Korea Foundation with funds from the National Assembly.
BELFAST —Belfast Senior College presents a” Summer Potpourri” series of four low-cost, single session courses between July 5 and July 25 in the Social Capital facility at 28 Spring Street