Korean War Film Festival: Tae Guk Gi

Program Title: Korean War Film Festival*: Tae Guk Gi
Program Date: February
Program Type: social, educational
Program location: Great Hall




Description:
On Sunday night, this event will show a screening of Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, a movie about the Korean War. Individually-wrapped Korean snacks will be provided to couple a cultural experience with the reception of historical knowledge. Following the movie, there will be a Q&A session on the Korean War. Lastly, an announcement will be made inviting the audience to come out to a Duke-UNC, Vision for North Korea big event on the Monday and Tuesday night of the same week.

Goals:
The goal of this proposal is to create a social event, at which students can learn about the division and formation of North and South Korea. At the same time, since this social event precedes the two-night big event, it will serve as a precursor that sets the big event into motion. Through the movie, this social event is crucial in establishing the historical split of the country into a totalitarian North and a democratic South. With this knowledge, the audience can better understand the existence of today’s North Korea, which will be the focus of Monday and Tuesday night.

Over the span of the two nights, the speakers will tell various aspects of their life in North Korea. In order to receive the entire presentation, on Monday night Duke students will have to come to UNC, and on Tuesday night UNC students will have to go to Duke, thereby creating a very joint Duke-UNC event.

On top of being social and educational, the film festival is resourceful for the big event as an asset for advertising. The big event will have its own advertising, but because we will announce the big event at the film festival, winning people to the film festival will advertise for the big event as well. With that said, advertisement for the film festival will create two layers of publicity for the big event. We hope that this educational production really becomes a three-night discovery into the conflict and tensions of North Korea.

*A continuation of the Korean War film festival will proceed with the movie Silmido in a later month of the semester