Multimedia Collection
Seoul Train
DVD
54 min
2008
HV640.5 .K67 S38 2008 DVD
First-time filmmakers Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth set off for Korea and China with an ambitious plan: document the secretive Underground Railroad smuggling North Korean refugees out of China.
As the world watches, the Chinese Government - in direct violation of international laws to which it's a party - systematically arrests and forcibly repatriates hundreds of these refugees each month. Defecting from North Korea is a capital offense - repatriated refugees face human rights abuses ranging from labor camps and torture to summary executions.
A group of activists, however, has taken it upon themselves to create an Underground Railroad. Via a network of safe houses and escape routes, the activists - at great personal risk - help the refugees on daring escapes to freedom over thousands of miles of Chinese territory. It's an epic tale involving North Korean and Chinese agents, double-crossings, overt border crossings, and the terror of what happens if they get caught.
SEOUL TRAIN is the definitive exposé into this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.
In English, Korean & Mandarin Chinese, with optional English, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Catalan, Russian, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, or bi-lingual English & Korean subtitles.
Distributed by New Day Films.
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