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Life in North Korea
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Published: 3.20.2017
Level 5   |   Time: 3:23
Accent: British

A book written by a North Korean author about ordinary life in North Korea.

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  1. READ the VOCABULARY

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  4. WATCH and READ the SCRIPT

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  5. DO the ACTIVITIES

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  1. LEA el VOCABULARIO

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  3. RESPONDE a las PREGUNTAS

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  4. MIRAR Y LEER

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  5. HACER LAS ACTIVIDADES

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  1. 어휘 읽기

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  5. 액티비티 하기

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  1. LER o VOCABULÁRIO

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  2. ASSISTA ao VÍDEO

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  3. RESPONDA às PERGUNTAS

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  4. ASSISTA e LEIA o SCRIPT

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  5. FAÇA as ATIVIDADES

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triangle Vocabulary 어휘 Vocabulário Vocabulario


  • ☐ ☐ ☐ insight [n] - understanding
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ an accusation [n] - blame
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ forbidden [adj] - prohibited / not allowed
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ anonymous [adj] - nameless
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ severe [adj] - strong
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a pen name [n] - a fake name used by the author of a book
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a firefly [n] - an insect that glows
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ falling foul [exp] - get in trouble with
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a regime [n] - a government
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ Karl Marx [n] - the writer of the Communist Manifesto
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ Booker Prize [n] - a famous prize for English literature
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ nuanced [adj] - accurate in subtle/specific ways
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ credible [adj] - believable
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ smuggle [v] - sneak (something) out of or into a country
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a defector [n] - someone who escapes a country
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ an activist [n] - someone who fights for a belief
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ an abductee [n] - someone kidnapped, stolen from their family
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a heavy heart [n] - sadness
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a yoke [n] - oppression
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ drenched [adj] - very wet
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ shabby [adj] - messy, not neat
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ an invalid [n] - someone who can't take care of themself
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ primitive [adj] - not modern
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ append [v] - add something to the end of a book

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression



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  1. What is the book about?
    the government of North Korea
    the North Korean language
    ordinary life in North Korea

  2. How did the book get out of North Korea?
    It was sold to a South Korean company.
    It was smuggled out of North Korea.
    It was written by someone in China.

  3. Who wrote the book?
    an anonymous North Korean author
    a North Korean government official
    an English writer

  4. What has the book been turned into in South Korea?
    a famous movie
    a popular TV show
    an award winning radio drama

  5. What is the pen name of the author?
    Deborah Smith
    Bandi
    Booker

  6. What does his pen name mean?
    short stories
    firefly
    falling foul

  7. In one of the stories, why does a baby start crying?
    It is hungry.
    Someone bumps into it.
    It sees a picture of Karl Marx.

  8. Who is Dohee Yoon?
    someone who knows Bandi
    a character in the book
    the publisher of the book

  9. What do we know about Bandi?
    his real name
    his sex
    his age
    his job
    his general location
    his exact location

  10. Why is Bandi's life in danger?
    The book is internationally known.
    He wants to free people.
    He is in the military.

  11. Who wants the book to be known internationally?
    Bandi
    Dohee Yoon
    the North Korean government

  12. Which words are missing from the poem?

    50 years in this northern land
    living as a 1)_____ that speaks
    living as a human under a yoke
    written not with pen and ink
    but with 2)_____ drenched with blood and tears
    is this writing of mine.
    Though they be dry as 3)_____
    and rough as a grassland,
    shabby as an invalid
    and 4) _____ as stone tools
    Reader, I beg you to read my words.

    1) machine 2) bones 3) desert 4) primitive



triangle Discussion 논의 Questões de discussão Discusión


  1. What do you know about North Korea?
  2. Why did Bandi want his book published despite the danger to his life?
  3. A baby starts crying at a picture of Karl Marx. Why would this cause problems for a North Korean family?
  4. What unique hardships and troubles do you think North Korean citizens face?
  5. What hardships and troubles do North Korean citizens face that are similar to those in your country?
  6. Why has South Korea been more successful than North Korea? In your opinion, what are the two most important factors?
  7. If North and South Korea reunited, what would be the advantages and disadvantages for South Koreans? Try to think of at least two of each?
  8. If North and South Korea reunited, what would be the advantages and disadvantages for North Koreans? Try to think of at least two of each?
  9. Why do you think the majority of North Koreans do not challenge or try to overthrow the government?
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triangle Script 대본 Roteiro Texto


So, what is life actually like in North Korea? Insight comes from a new book called The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from inside North Koreai. The text had to be sumggled out of the country. The author remains anonymous as he could face severe punishment or even death if his identity was revealed. This report from South Korea correspondent Steve Evans.

It's been a prize-winning radio drama in South Korea. This is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people in North Korea. Written by a mysterious North Korean author, and now coming in English to a bookstore near you.

The author of The Accusation goes by the pen name Bandy - Firefly. It's a series of short stories about little incidents of corruption and falling foul of the regime. A baby starts crying at a picture of Karl Marx, and so brings trouble to the family. An official targets a worker.

The English version has been translated by Deborah Smith, who won a Booker Prize for her translation of a South Korean novel. What emerges is a highly readable, nuanced, credible picture of a country where ordinary people go about their lives, treading around the regime, and sometimes bumping into it.

The publishers say it was smuggled to the South Korea by a defector. In South Korea, it's been championed by an activist - Dohee Yoon of the Citizens Coalition for the Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees. He says he knows who Bandi really is.

He was born in 1950. He's a male. And he has contact with [a] Chinese tourist. And he lives inland.

By publishing his work, you put his life in extreme danger.

Yes. The book being internationally known, it gives me a sense of heavy heart. The safety will be threatened. However, this is Bandi's wishes. He wishes people who live in North Korea like slaves to be freed.

At the end of the Accusation, Bandi, whoever and wherever he may be, appends a poem to the reader - a reader now in Britain and North America.

50 years in this northern land
living as a machine that speaks
living as a human under a yoke.
Eritten not with pen and ink,
but with bones, drenched with blood and tears
is this writing of mine.
Though they be dry as a desert
and rough as a grassland,
shabby as an invalid
and primitive as stone tools,
reader, I beg you to read my words.
Bandi

That report from Steve Evans in Seoul.