SAIESEO: between two Koreas & Japan excerpt version, 1ch video 5min, 2008 (subtitle: Korean)
SAIESEO: between two Koreas and Japan is a story
about families in the Zainichi(Koreans who immigrated to Japan during the
Japanese colonial era, and their descendants who remained in Japan) community,
as the artist herself was born into and grew up in a Zainichi community. The
Zainichi have spent prolonged time in between the three countries of North
Korea, South Korea and Japan. Although outsiders tend to consider the Zainchi
to be homogeneous, the artist seeks to reveal how diverse identities exist
within Zainichi communities, just like in any other community, through the
personal histories of several Zainichi families. The artist conducted
interviews with different families about their histories in order to
individualities to life, extensively engaging in conversations to determine her
main characters and contents, and met with her subjects face-to-face in their
living rooms, with camera in hand. Fourth and fifth generation Zainichi people
are being born now, and one will be able to inspect each generation's views on
marriage and education, and identities as the Zainichi continue to balance
three different cultures.