KOREAN BROKEN FAMILIES

The heartbreaking reunion

Synopsis

The diplomatic relations between North Korea and South Korea are warming up, but there is still a deep wound going back to the time of the Cold War: the separation ofrefugees'’ families.

Lee Geumsum was a young mother when she had to flee the Korean War in 1951. She wandered several hundred kilometers, hunted by famine and disease, when, one morning, she had to stop to feed her daughter, who was only a few months old, losing sight of her 4-year-old son. She never saw him again.

Thanks to the reunion of families organized by the two countries, this 91-year-old lady will see her son again, whom she had lost 68 years ago.