Social Performance 2005

MIGRANT WORKER’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE PART 5

Gwang Ju City

Title: Migrant Worker’s Election Campaign Performance Part 5, Gwang Ju City

Producer/ Author /Director: Park Kyong Ju

Collaborator: Chun Min Sung (OHMYNEWS CITIZEN REPORTER)

Camera: Park Kyong Ju

Edit: Park Kyong Ju

Year: January 17, 2005

Length: 60min. (Documentary Video)

Place: A fake election campaign performance was held on the streets of in downtown Gwang Ju, and citizens were interviewed.

Context:

Arisa Lim (34), a migrant woman from Thailand who became a naturalized Korean, announced her candidacy for the election, saying that she became a candidate for the election on behalf of many migrant women who entered Korea through international marriages and were treated inhumanely like herself.

She said that many migrant women suffer from cultural differences in Korean society and live with various emotional difficulties between their in-laws and husbands, and she hopes that the treatment of them will improve as soon as possible.

After holding her election campaign at the fountain in front of the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office and on Geumnam-ro, she wrapped up her performance by laying flowers at the memorial tower in Mangwol-dong.

Copyright of all images Ⓒ Chun Min Sung

OHMYNEWS CITIZEN REPORTER CHUN MIN SUNG CLOSE COVERAGE ARTICLE

광주에서 펼쳐진 이주노동자 선거유세 퍼포먼스 Election campaign performance of migrant workers held in Gwangju ( 2005.01.18)