To come to terms with her family's decision to send her brothers to North Korea, Yang Yonghi made three films — and found understanding along the way.
,” in which she explored her strained relationship with her dad over his steadfast support of the regime.Chosen Soren issued a letter demanding an apology, which Yang ignored.
“Do you regret sending all three of them?” she asks her father in a climactic scene of “Dear Pyongyang.” ,” released in South Korea in October, focuses on her mother, Kang Junghi. Kang was born in Osaka but spent several years in Jeju as a teen, witnessing a massacre in which South Korea’s military dictatorship killed nearly 30,000 civilians — then covered it up for decades.
Until her death last year, her mother sent cash and massive boxes filled with food, medicine and other goods for her sons and their families. After each trip to the North, her care packages would grow bigger. “Soup and Ideology,” now screening in Japan and South Korea, will be the final documentary in her trilogy about her family’s history. She plans to release it in the United States at colleges and film festivals this year.
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