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I enjoyed reading “The Gulag Goes To Washington” by Soo Youn (from the November 2006 issue, on the U.S. premiere of “Yoduk Story,” the musical about a North Korean concentration camp, in the Washington, D.C. area). But the article only mentioned the State Department bureaucrats that were in the audience, when there were also high-level people from the Pentagon, other government agencies and think tanks there to watch the musical. 

I just wished I knew that the actors and the producers were having problems with money and needed help. I could have opened up my house for them to stay at. I knew that my Korean church was involved in advertising for the musical, but I was not aware that my church also assisted the production with housing as well. Initially, I thought $60 was pretty expensive for a ticket for a musical. But now, I would have paid twice the amount if I knew about the financial problems they had.

Even today, I still hang the musical’s poster in my cubicle to remind myself how evil Kim Jong-il is and that the South Korean government isn’t doing much to stop the genocide in the North.