| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (73 min.)) : sound, color |
| Summary |
South Korea's "Sunshine Policy" under President Kim Dae-Jung's presidency has opened up unprecedented business and cultural contact with the communist North. From March 1998 to October 2000 the film follows this process and its many paradoxes, such as the anachronistic National Security Law, which prohibits "praising and encouraging" North Korea, still defined as "an enemy country." Yet South Koreans flock there on tourist cruises. The film gives voice to hopes and aspirations for reunification, as well as anxiety and resistance in a range of people in the South, and reveals changes in attitudes in post-summit Korea |
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"RUSHING TO SUNSHINE is a personal essay film that looks at South Korea's uncomfortable but growing acceptance of North Korea over a two year period. Hoaas gains unprecedented access to former political prisoners, student dissidents and others affected by a Government caught between its new open door 'Sunshine Policy' and the remnants of a cold war anti-Communist mindset. The film is a combination of the essay genre and a filmmaker's journey of exploration and probing, to unravel the things that intrigue and puzzle her about Korean society and its engagement with the North. It draws on footage recorded over a period of two years from March 1998 to March 2000 which has been a period of economic upheavel as well as enormous change in Korea, particularly in the relationship to North Korea."--Kanopy website |
| Analysis |
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
| Notes |
Originally released in 2001 |
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Made with the assistance of Film Victoria, Arts Victoria, Asialink, and the Australia-Korea Foundation |
| Credits |
Camera and sound, Solrun Hoaas ; editor, Adis Hondo |
| Performer |
Narrated by Solrun Hoaas |
| Notes |
In English and Korean, with English subtitles for the Korean |
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Online resource; title from title frames |
| Subject |
Korean reunification question (1945- )
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Social conditions
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Politics and government
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Korean reunification question (1945- )
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International relations
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| SUBJECT |
Korea (South) -- Relations -- Korea (North)
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Korea (North) -- Relations -- Korea (South)
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Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1988-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003875
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Korea (South) -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005685
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| Subject |
Korea (South)
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Korea (North)
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| Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films
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Internet videos
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Hoaas, Solrun, filmmaker.
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Ronin Films, presenter.
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Goshu Films (Firm)
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Film Victoria.
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Arts Victoria.
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Asialink (Firm)
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Australia-Korea Foundation
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Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
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