Let's Go on a Trip

A love story blooming across a reunified land

Arirang’s reunification series — Numbness (1989), Father’s Liberation Diary (1991), Jeom-a Jeom-a Kongjeom-a (1990/1997) — has continued for fifteen years since the company’s founding. This time, though, something is different: moving past the era of speaking about the pain of division and self-determined reunification, the company set out to make a reunification play as cheerful as a comic strip.

Perhaps the weight of longing for reunification had become too heavy, and there was a wish that it might be met with a lighter, easier heart.

“I woke up and the country was reunified. Can’t we greet reunification lightly — the way we greet each new day when we wake?” (from the director’s note). No wonder the play overflows with nonstop fun.