Diaspora: Arirang Road (2019)
Diasporas’ song still goes on.
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 26M
Director : Lee Gyu-cheol
Synopsis
During the Japanese occupation period, Koreans were forced to deport or drafted to work in other countries. Now 150 years passed, it appears around 7million of those people and their families are spread in 170 countries. There, a world-famous Korean-Japanese musician Yang Bang Ean follows the pathways of Korean diasporas as an inspiration, and performs his cross over music concert called ‘ARIRANG ROAD’.
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