Well, in my opinion, ever since previous US president G. Bush started calling North Korea the "axis of evil" people are more aware of North Korea (or Asia in general) before.
Just a short story of something happened in my middle school - during US history, when we were learning about the World War II and the Forgotten War (at least I think that's what the topic was... my English wasn't good that time), our teacher gave us an in-class assignment of identifying countries and coloring it in its allies.
I was the only Asian boy in that class, and there was another Asian girl in the class - two Asians in a small town's middle school, not bad, huh? Supposedly, all girls went to her, and many boys came to me, asking about countries.
They started asking questions - pointing at Japan and asking if it was Korea, and when I told them it was Japan, they asked back pointing at Taiwan saying that they thought it was Japan. Now I think about it, it's fairly understandable, because I would be still confused with Eastern European countries.
Anyway, to continue the North Korean Exodus, during the Forgotten War, a man buried gold bullion in South Korea before forced to move to NK, and his grandson, about 60 years later, escapes from North Korea for the gold - what a dramatic story.
This is actually a true story, which is currently in progress. A man escaped North Korea in 2008, and now he is claiming that there is gold bullion of about 88 pounds.under the backyard of a temple in South Korea.
The outcome would be very interesting. Personally, best wishes to this guy trying to claim his family's gold.
No comments:
Post a Comment