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Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
On this week’s Making Contact, we head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in their 70s, 80s, and 90s have gone from quietly farming to organizing daily protests and blockades to stop THAAD. THAAD is part of a missile defense system that gives the U.S. the ability to carry out a nuclear first strike.
The region has historically been Korea’s conservative stronghold, but with the deployment of THAAD, people are re-evaluating the history they’ve been taught their entire lives.
Featuring:
Shin Dong Ok, Head of Soseongri Elders Group
Soseongri Residents
Shi Uh Yeon, Gimcheon resident
Gimcheon Residents
Grace Cho, historian and author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
Credits:
Host: Marie Choi
Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
Voiceover for Shin Dong Ok – David Jang Jae Rhee
Voiceovers for Sosongri Halmonis – Juyeon Rhee, J.T. Takagi
Voiceover for Shi Uh Yeon – Juhyun Park
Voiceover for Gimcheon Imo – Liz Suk
Voiceover for Col. Turner Rogers – Claude Marks
Archival audio is from the U.S. National Archives, AP Archives, U.S. State Department, and U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.
Special Thanks to Io Sunwoo, Juyeon Rhee, and Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans.
Music Credits:
+ Rain – Jio Im and Judy Jun
Instrumental
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– / – Judy Jun
July – Jio Im
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