
From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. This story is a record of their lives, which used to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. There is a key to understanding how North Korea's closed political structure began and how the ‘Juche ideology’ was formed in this documentary movie. Understanding North Korea in the 1950s is an important way to understand North Korea at present.

Kim Deog-young

The Front Line of Ideology
The Front Line of Ideology

My Father's Emails
My Father's Emails
Korean War Stories
Korean War Stories

Memory Books
Memory Books

Chuncheon Battle 72 Hours
Chuncheon Battle 72 Hours

One for All, All for One
One for All, All for One

Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line

The Ghosts of Jeju
The Ghosts of Jeju

Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council
Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council

Diary of an Elephant Orphan
Diary of an Elephant Orphan

Inside North Korea
Inside North Korea
Scorched Earth
Scorched Earth