Eunseo is from Hamheung in North Korea. She came to South Korea alone when she was 17. 20 years have passed. Eunseo has her loving husband and daughter, Hyeon-ji, with her. One day, Eunseo hears that her mother has visited South Korea. The joy of reuniting with her mother lasts for only a brief moment as things start to get complicated. What will her husband’s family, Hyeon-ji’s friends and their parents, think about her identity? It continues to bother her. Even though s...more

Eunseo is from Hamheung in North Korea. She came to South Korea alone when she was 17. 20 years have passed. Eunseo has her loving husband and daughter, Hyeon-ji, with her. One day, Eunseo hears that her mother has visited South Korea. The joy of reuniting with her mother lasts for only a brief moment as things start to get complicated. What will her husband’s family, Hyeon-ji’s friends and their parents, think about her identity? It continues to bother her. Even though she longs for her family in North Korea, Eunseo is afraid she’ll be ostracized in South Korea once it is revealed that she is from North Korea. Eunseo’s concerns and fear aren’t hers alone and shared by many others. “Why did you hide the fact that you’re North Korean?”, “I thought you weren't North Korean”, “Now that I think of it, Hyeon-ji looks North Korean.” We are made to examine such phrases. Eunseo is the graduation project of Director PARK Jun-ho who studied at Korea National University of Arts.less