Winter in Sokcho fiction and passing on love and

and passing on love and kindness around the world

bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could

a place that will permanently mark and haunt him for the rest of his life

by John Mighton

Winter in Sokcho fiction and passing on love and"It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy