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Flight to Freedom

Resource for Grades 9-12

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Running Time: 3m 59s
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Source: Wide Angle: "Crossing Heaven's Border"

Learn more about the Wide Angle film "Crossing Heaven's Border."

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This Wide Angle Educational Resource was produced with the support of The Overbrook Foundation.

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Discussion Questions

What risk is Gum Hee running by leaving her son behind as she attempts to leave China with a forged passport?
How does the camera crew get away with filming Gum Hee as she makes her escape through passport control with her forged paperwork?
What was Gum Hee afraid would tip off the Chinese authorities to her real origins as a North Korean defector rather than her assumed persona of a Han Chinese?

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Narration: Geum Hee is still a plane-ride from freedom. She knows she could be caught…and may never see her son again.

Bo Song (subtitle): When’s Mommy leaving?

Journalist (subtitle): Mom?

She’s leaving tomorrow.

Bo Song (subtitle): Tomorrow?

Geum Hee (subtitle): Why, Bo Song? What’s wrong, Bo Song? Why? Mommy will come back soon.

Bo Song (subtitle): I’ll call you.

Geum Hee (subtitle): Mommy loves Bo Song more than anything in the whole wide world. I promise that we’ll see each other again very soon. Don’t get sick.

Geum Hee (subtitle): Let’s meet again soon.

Geum Hee (subtitle): Pinky swear? OK?

Bo Song (subtitle): OK Mom. We’ll see each other very soon.

Geum Hee (subtitle): I love you.

Narration: At the airport, armed with her fake Chinese passport, Geum Hee will attempt to pass through immigration. Posing as a friend, one of the camera team follows her.

Lee Hark Joon: Toward the end we got bolder and bolder. We completely lost our perspective. If somebody had asked, “What if you got caught?” we would’ve answered “So be it.”

Narration: Then, in the blink of an eye….safety.

Geum Hee (subtitle): I can’t describe the feeling. I was so nervous because I have an accent. He asked me if I was Korean Chinese. I said I was Han Chinese. He stamped my passport and said, “Have a safe journey.”