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Human Stories

Voices목소리

Humanization is the most powerful weapon against propaganda. These are real stories from real people.

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Same mother, different houses. We never stopped being family. We never stopped longing to go home.

A member of the Korean diaspora

Featured Voices

"When I was young, my grandmother would tell me stories about her village in the North. She'd describe the mountains, the rivers, the taste of the persimmons in autumn. She died never going back. But she never stopped being from there."

— Second-generation Korean American

"People ask me 'North Korean or South Korean?' I say 'Just Korean.' My blood doesn't recognize the 38th parallel. My culture doesn't recognize it. Only maps recognize it."

— Korean diaspora community leader

"We celebrate Chuseok the same way. We eat the same food. We sing the same folk songs. We bow to our elders the same way. Tell me again how we're enemies?"

— Peace advocate