Oh, the thing in the beginning with the autograph? Yeah. If I was going to fanwank it, I'd say that it's because her goal is an autograph, something that is pretty alien to her, as opposed to beating someone up (2) she is disoriented by the new and alien world so is confused. But tbh, I am sure they put that in just because it was funny.
Yeah, I had to firmly put this into fantasy-land territory AU to be able to deal with the way they portray NK, especially in light of what I consistently read about the place. Funnily, growing up, my best friend was a girl who lived in NK for a while because her father was working there, sent by USSR government to help them. Not sure what he did, and seeing I grew up in a closed city (i.e. city closed to foreigners because we made rocket parts) not sure I want to know. NK has always been fascinating for me because even growing up in the USSR, we thought they were nuts. That's saying a lot. I really rec Andrei Lankov's "Beyond the DMZ" - it's on every-day life in NK and is beyond fascinating (it also helps me that Lankov is also a former Soviet person, who actually studied back in Pyongyang, and so his attitude is not just "gosh darn communism is weird" but getting past that into peculiarities of NK itself and not it being communist, as it really isn't). Anyway, massive digression.
Yup, I just think it would be hilarious to hook up rich/spoiler with Mr "Juche is my life."
The book you're talking about sounds extremely interesting. I'm going to write down the title and author and see if I can find it. We get 0 info about NK in France and even searching the net, it's difficult or you don't know if it's reliable.
I'm starting to learn Korean (I've always wanted to learn a third language and had to choose between German and Korean) and I'm interested in the history as well. I'm doing it on my own so it's a slow process. I'm just at the learning the alphabet stage :o)
Yeah, I had to firmly put this into fantasy-land territory AU to be able to deal with the way they portray NK, especially in light of what I consistently read about the place. Funnily, growing up, my best friend was a girl who lived in NK for a while because her father was working there, sent by USSR government to help them. Not sure what he did, and seeing I grew up in a closed city (i.e. city closed to foreigners because we made rocket parts) not sure I want to know. NK has always been fascinating for me because even growing up in the USSR, we thought they were nuts. That's saying a lot. I really rec Andrei Lankov's "Beyond the DMZ" - it's on every-day life in NK and is beyond fascinating (it also helps me that Lankov is also a former Soviet person, who actually studied back in Pyongyang, and so his attitude is not just "gosh darn communism is weird" but getting past that into peculiarities of NK itself and not it being communist, as it really isn't). Anyway, massive digression.
Yup, I just think it would be hilarious to hook up rich/spoiler with Mr "Juche is my life."
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I'm starting to learn Korean (I've always wanted to learn a third language and had to choose between German and Korean) and I'm interested in the history as well. I'm doing it on my own so it's a slow process. I'm just at the learning the alphabet stage :o)
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