North Korea from the perspective of teenagers...Musical Eun-kyung delivers small and warm daily life
Jun 26, 2025
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Eunkyung will be performed at the CKL Stage in Seoul from the 9th to the 13th of next month and at the Daegu Student Culture Center Small Theater from the 17th to the 19th. The work is expected to reinterpret the story of North Korea, which has not been met so far, from the perspective of a teenage girl, and create a deep impression with their dreams and hopes.
Musical 'Eunkyung' is a musical produced based on the original essay 'Eunkyung's diary' that captures the ordinary daily lives of young North Koreans and sheds light on reality. The work, which was produced last year to raise awareness of unification and understanding of North Korea in Seoul's 2024 and first met the audience at the showcase, was praised for enhancing understanding between North and South Korean youth by focusing on reinterpreting the reality of North Korean youth with literary sensibility during the showcase. The work goes one step further from last year's successful showcase and plans to show a higher degree of completion by improving to focus more on the original.
Casting Shin Sun-ju as Eun-kyung, Lee Ji-hyun as Jeong-cheol, Woo-jin as Kim Woo-jin, Woo-hyun as Jin-ok, multi-actors Lee Pyo-min and Yang Hye-sun, Eun-kyung focuses on portraying North Korea's daily life with the pure eyes of a North Korean teenager, away from heavy topics such as thoughts, ideology, and tragic North Korea's reality. It is to broaden empathy to a real story that contains the dreams and hopes of North Korean youth beyond ideology.
In addition, the musical Eunkyung will present a new perspective toward North Korea, emphasizing that North Korean youth also go through a universal growth process and dream of love, friendship, and dreams. As the North Korean youth also focuses on the fact that they are moving forward with dreams and hopes, the image of flying toward a free life even in the dark reality and trying to live as an enterprising self is expected to leave a deep lingering impression on the audience.
Therefore, 'Eunkyung' makes us expect meaningful effects in terms of unification education. It seems that 'Eunkyung', which illuminates the reality of North Korean youth from a new perspective, can convey a more in-depth educational message to students and young people living in the same era. In particular, the work is attracting attention as a new approach to unification education through beautiful music and drama, not just information delivery. As a result, it is also expected to be a unification education program linked to the elementary and middle school curriculum, and group tours linked to unification education are free.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
