Award-winning author Young-ha Kim examines the journey away from Communism through the stories of North Korean defectors he interviewed while researching his latest novel, Your Republic is Calling You. The evening will also include a screening of Mikhail Zheleznikov’s For Home Viewing, a short film that depicts the final days of the Cold War through the life changes of the Russian filmmaker.

Tuesday, February 15
6:30PM         

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor


About the SpeakerYoung-ha Kim has earned a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific Korean writers of his generation, publishing five novels and three collections, one of which was a Border’s Original Voice pick. His latest novels include Your Republic is Calling You and the award-winning I Have The Right to Destroy Myself. He is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University through the Spring of 2011.

About the Short Film
For Home Viewing is a dramatic, humorous, and poetic 20-minute film composed of school photos, newsreel footage, and 8mm home movies from the end of the Cold War era and transition of the 1990s. Russian director Mikhail Zheleznikov takes stock of tremendous systemic and social change through his individual life “passage.”