The generation born and raised in the 1990s is creating a wave that pushes Korea to change from within.
Looking from outside, Korea seems to have been "stuck in place" for the past 70 years. But inside, a change of pace, an economic revolution is being shaped and driven by young people born and raised in the 1990s, according to the Washington Post.
In the documentary "Jangmadang Generation," the California-based LiNK, which helps the defectors of North Korea, describes the nature of the disaster. change for this country. They belong to the Jangmadang generation.
"Jangmadang" is the black market that grew out of the famine of the Korean War in the 1990s. In the situation of about two million people dying of starvation, many survived by selling. People have corn to make noodles from corn. People who make beans tofu. And the Jangmadang market has become a rendezvous of "unwanted" merchants. That is how capitalism and grouping are rooted in the communist Korean communist society.
Children born in the 1990s or "Jangmadang Generation" grow up as market-oriented black markets become a familiar part of everyday life. It can be said that these children are absorbed in capitalism from the "water".
When starvation occurs, Joo Yang is 6 years old. Witnessing the many deaths from hunger and cold, 14-year-old Yang was eager to start a business and started earning money by picking up peas left after peeling at a factory and reselling.
Or Kang Min lost her mother when she was 9 years old. From a boy who had to earn his own food by going begging on streets and picking up bags in markets, Kang became a trader who imported socks and batteries from China.
Or Danbi clothing business "clones" fashion style of Korean TV actor. She "smacked" from China then hired good-looking friends wearing dresses and "wandering" in the market to advertise.
Because of the famine, the "Jangmadang Generation" grew "daring and reckless," a mother who gave birth in the 1990s.
After 20 years, today's babies are now growing into young people who are motivating for towns and cities across Korea. The black market is not only a place for exchange, trade of necessities, clothes and household appliances, but also a gateway for people to access information from the outside world. For example, one can easily buy a USB full of foreign movies or TV series at Jangmadang Market.
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An employee standing next to a plastic hamburger at a restaurant in the Kaeson Youth Theme Park in Pyongyang. Picture: Eric Lafforgue.
The documentary "The Jangmadang Generation," revolves around the story of eight defectors defying North Korea, showing that while the outside world is obsessed with leader Kim Jong-un and missile tests or trials nuclear weapons, ordinary Koreans only care about the fundamental changes that are taking place daily.
Listening to the story of young Koreans, the filmmakers want the audience to see in this generation creativity, stubbornness and insidious rebellion. Unlike the international community, young Koreans are not brainwashed, but they are becoming the leading force in the Korean society.
"This is the most closed and harshest country in the world," said the film's director. "But we want the audience to see the Koreans as easy to understand as us, to know their loss and tragedy but also to see the momentum of change taking place across the country."
All 8 characters in the movie defected to Korea and are now college students. Unlike older Korean escapes, they easily adapt to new life in an industrialized capitalist society.
"Our generation grew up under the grip of the government and the perception of freedom, so our desire for freedom was very strong," said Huh Shimon, an interviewer.
According to Shimon, "freedom is to work where you want or do not work where you do not want, or be able to do business yourself, or live where you like, and have the right to go anywhere. you desire ".
An Hong
