[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kim Byeong-nae) is the first local government in the country to promote a video recording project that deals with the lives of separated families who have experienced the pain of the division between North and South Korea.
According to Nam-gu on the 4th, the separated families video recording project, which captures the unresolved feelings of the first generation of separated families who have lived in the South since the division and stories that could not be conveyed to their families in the North, will be in full swing starting this month.
Nam-gu, in cooperation with the Ministry of Unification, has sent informational letters about the video recording project to separated family households residing in the district and is recruiting separated families to participate in the project until the 15th of this month.
To protect the personal information of separated families living domestically and within the district, Nam-gu drafts the informational letters, and the Ministry of Unification sends them to each household.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Unification, as of the end of January this year, there are 462 separated family members residing in Gwangju Metropolitan City, of which 86 are living within Nam-gu.
Accordingly, after confirming the willingness to participate in the video recording project, Nam-gu plans to produce videos of FULL-HD quality or higher, within 10 minutes in length, through in-depth interviews with elderly separated family members by the end of July, capturing their life stories and messages they wish to convey to their separated families.
About 25 videos are expected to be produced, and after completion, a screening event of the separated families’ video records will be held at the Nam-gu Cultural Center.
A Nam-gu official said, “To understand the pain of separated families and to create a social atmosphere for overcoming division, we are promoting the video recording project for the first time among local governments nationwide,” adding, “We will do our best to carry out the project so that anyone can empathize with the reality of the division and the unification of the Korean Peninsula.”
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