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"Ise-Kyopos. Die 2. Generation der im Ausland lebenden Koreaner" Cerin Hong Ise or I-Sae means second. Koreans in Korea use Kyopos to describe all Koreans living abroad. Between 1963 and 1967, 18,000 highly trained Korean nurses came to German. They were recruited on account of a feared lack of nursing personnel. At the same time but independently, 7,000 Koreans came to Germany to work in mining, even though some of them were academics. In her first documentary film, the film maker Cerin Hong has portrayed the children of these migrants. They tell of their living situation in Berlin and in the Korean community. An excerpt of this film is being shown at the exhibition. In the film, the interviewees, mostly women and all around 20 years old, tell of how their parents came to Germany to make something of their lives. In fact, the migration from Korea was filled was characterized by career hopes. In each case, they were the “best” in their professions, and they came, as the historical film material shows, as proud representatives of their country - also “fresh as the new day“, as a TV reporter commented when they arrived by airplane. In Germany, they were placed in the category of low-wage workers. When the women talk of their parents, the film about the second generation is also a glance at their parent’s generation. Filmmaker, born 1975, lives in Cologne. |
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