1. Condolences to the families n friends ofvthe dead in the Mexico City earthquake. Speedy recovery to the injured n may more trapped r found n saved.
2. Watched a film at the National Library by a German-Korean film maker abt "My brothers and sisters in the North" tonight. Interesting insights though nothing in North Korea filmed by a foreigner can be 70% free, much less 100%. So has to take the behaviours filmed with a bit of salt.
Yet I could not help but to notice:
a. the people r being reminded ALL THE TIME how their great leaders r their saviour!;
b. that the older people do want reunification to reconnect with lost families while the younger ones look at it as an economic n commerce opportunities;
c. how some of their work practices r actually good ones like "stretch exercises" for sewing workers, "everyone must work n get basic rewards" while exceptional performance only mean slight or small difference in "bonuses";
d. that young children r always adorable n impressionable n learn quickly. It also means some of them will grow up with only a single dimension view of the way "crafted by the state"!! N hence can be very very "wrong"!!
e. learned that there is a NGO that brings modern commercial knowledge n practices to North Korea based in Sgp. Marvel at the passion of the volunteers n how they negotiate the complex North Korea system!!
2. Watched a film at the National Library by a German-Korean film maker abt "My brothers and sisters in the North" tonight. Interesting insights though nothing in North Korea filmed by a foreigner can be 70% free, much less 100%. So has to take the behaviours filmed with a bit of salt.
Yet I could not help but to notice:
a. the people r being reminded ALL THE TIME how their great leaders r their saviour!;
b. that the older people do want reunification to reconnect with lost families while the younger ones look at it as an economic n commerce opportunities;
c. how some of their work practices r actually good ones like "stretch exercises" for sewing workers, "everyone must work n get basic rewards" while exceptional performance only mean slight or small difference in "bonuses";
d. that young children r always adorable n impressionable n learn quickly. It also means some of them will grow up with only a single dimension view of the way "crafted by the state"!! N hence can be very very "wrong"!!
e. learned that there is a NGO that brings modern commercial knowledge n practices to North Korea based in Sgp. Marvel at the passion of the volunteers n how they negotiate the complex North Korea system!!
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