탄압받는, tan-ab-bad-neun, adj. Better known in English as, repressed. This is what we see North Koreans as being, but they themselves don’t see that because they just don’t know and they will not ever get to know. In her TED Talk Suki Kim explains how North Koreans don’t recognize the pain and lies they live with and how the truth could send them into persecution. Throughout the talk she explains in greater detail through her experience she had when she went undercover in North Korea about the dangers of the truth and how the teaching and acceptance of lies is what allows the gulag to stay running while ruining.
Suki begins her talk explaining her situation and time going undercover. 6 months, and not just any 6 months but the last 6 months …show more content…
Suki Kim describes the nation as a gulag because they are experiencing just that. They are living the modern day labor camps that the Soviet Union inforced onto their people in 1930 up until 1935. The North Korean people were slaves to the political labor of the nation and they couldn’t do anything to it because if one challenged the gulag, then one would be dead. Suki Kim used this to her advantage to get the audience notice the similarities between the repressed but then compare it to our much more desirable …show more content…
She described it as a prison disguised as a school. In doing so she shows how the citizens inside their own country were still jailed in. Nothing was literally getting in or out and nothing that wasn’t the way that country had defined its norms and regulations was going to be tolerated. The place for learning and discovering ourselves by immersing ourselves into new knowledge would have none of that sort. Every classroom was bugged and reported on, every conversation was heard, and everyone was constantly being watched because the nation and everything with it was brought up by lies. She played a game with her students called ‘Truth or Lie’ that would let the class themselves recognize the lies they lived with. She shared this with the audience to make a realization. We tell little lies and stick to some to keep us ‘safe’ in the situation but here the lies that everyone lived with was what kept them safe because if anyone dared challenge them it would only cause
Suki begins her talk explaining her situation and time going undercover. 6 months, and not just any 6 months but the last 6 months …show more content…
Suki Kim describes the nation as a gulag because they are experiencing just that. They are living the modern day labor camps that the Soviet Union inforced onto their people in 1930 up until 1935. The North Korean people were slaves to the political labor of the nation and they couldn’t do anything to it because if one challenged the gulag, then one would be dead. Suki Kim used this to her advantage to get the audience notice the similarities between the repressed but then compare it to our much more desirable …show more content…
She described it as a prison disguised as a school. In doing so she shows how the citizens inside their own country were still jailed in. Nothing was literally getting in or out and nothing that wasn’t the way that country had defined its norms and regulations was going to be tolerated. The place for learning and discovering ourselves by immersing ourselves into new knowledge would have none of that sort. Every classroom was bugged and reported on, every conversation was heard, and everyone was constantly being watched because the nation and everything with it was brought up by lies. She played a game with her students called ‘Truth or Lie’ that would let the class themselves recognize the lies they lived with. She shared this with the audience to make a realization. We tell little lies and stick to some to keep us ‘safe’ in the situation but here the lies that everyone lived with was what kept them safe because if anyone dared challenge them it would only cause