Musical Tackles Life in North Korean Prison Camp ****

Mar 15th, 2006 · A new show that has opened in South Korea, Yodok Story, takes on an unlikely topic for a musical: prison camps in Stalinist North Korea. The director and choreographer are North Korean -- and both were once prisoners in the vast gulag system that holds an estimated 200,000 people.

Keywords: director · Prisons · music · Korean · Choreographer · South Korea · North Korean · Yodok Story · Stalinist North Korea · gulag