This is a PBS documentary which showed a group of nationalized North Koreans who visit the DMZ from the south in a field trip. This is the closest they will get to their families who weren’t able to make the journey. It’s very sad to think of the conditions in North Korea and the pain the family members go through when they break up. The main girl’s parents sent her to South Korea to have a better life, but sadly it’s very likely she may never be able to meet them again. She says she writes letters to them even though they can’t be mailed. One can only hope to see unification in this lifetime.
UPDATE: The link has been fixed, thanks Lauren (from PBS). Y’all did a great job.
Hi, my comment is irrelevant to the article, but I am writing here anyway.
(I wanted to email but couldn’t find it) I just happened to find your youtube videos and wow.. they were so funny and I thought you were brilliant. I have to say 대단해요. As you have passion and interest in Korean culture and Korea, I have loved Amrican culture since I started learning English which was in 7th grade(back then, that was the first time you learn English in school)Since then I developed hugh interest and when I was in high school and college, I would only watch Hollywood movies, listen to AFN,EBS, and pop songs. I also tried to read English newspapers.. I basically did my best to make my own English spoken world in Korean environment which you will find very hard when you get there next year 
All my friends knew my very different interest. But I am talking about late 1990s to early 2000s. However, I came to the states 4 years ago (finally my dream had come true to come to the US to study) and I live in CT now. I have been going home every summer (very lucky) and I am going again this year. But I think I won’t be back for a few years at least after this year, so it’s going to be really sad especially when I say bye to my friends and family this year. Anyway, I just wanted to say hi and be supportive of your dream and achieving the goal! I have to say I definitely felt some kind of common emotions from you in terms of learning other language and their culture. You will have a blast in Korea next year and I really hope you love it. I will keep visiting your site or watching videos.
Cool blog!! Hey I’m going to Korea in a few months, what do you recommend I either purchase or look online to study some basic Korean/Hangul words and terminology so I’m not completely lost when I get there? I’d like to be able to order food and know some greetings, haha. Thanks!!!
@A.V. Smith
I have helped start an online Korean language resource site you can check out. It’s in the early stages so you’ll probably need to learn from different sources, but there’s a good list of online sources over here:
http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Studying_Resources
There’s some good pages listed there for learning Hangeul. Good luck!
Dear On My Way to Korea —
Thanks so much for embedding the “Field Trip to the DMZ” on your blog. We had to take the video down to make a small change, but it’s now back up, with a new embed code. If you replace the code, it will work again. Here’s a link to the video:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/field-trip-to-the-dmz/video/4530/
Thanks!
The video was absolutely awesome. Thx for hosting it.