ABSTRACT
A young soldier from North Korea who crossed the JSA (Joint Security Area) on foot while being shot five bullets received full coverage from world news including CNN and NHK as well as Korean media recently in November 2017. He recovered from long hours of several surgeries conducted by Dr. Lee who became another hero in South Korea thanks to his medical techniques and devotion to his patients. One of the treatments that Dr. Lee gave to this 24-year-old soldier was to show K-pop music performance videos, Korean TV shows and American movies. According to Dr. Lee’s presentation on the news, this young man wanted to listen to K-pop and was familiar with Hollywood movies. Since the world remembers the horrible story of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who went to North Korea for tourism and died from being a hostage there for a year, the dramatic story of this North Korean soldier reminds people of the misery of North Korea. These two young people, common young men who enjoy pop culture and adventures, seem to represent the tragedy of the Korean peninsula and the horror of dictatorship in North Korea. These human stories may give a stronger impression to the people in the world than the nuclear threat and political propaganda that the North Korean regime proclaims daily.
