{"id":1218,"date":"2015-11-17T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2017-12-08T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:51:11","slug":"songs-for-hye-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/songs-for-hye-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs for Hye-song &#038; Escape to Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/tv\/tvshows\/getreal-s14\/escape-to-despair\/2346006.html\">Escape To Despair: Stories of North Koreans Living in South Korea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/starterkit\/servlet\/fragment?id=2346006&amp;view=embed\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>A very big\u00a0thank you to Lee Tae-hoon, founder of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaobserver.com\/\">The Korea Observer<\/a><\/em>, for inviting myself and my fellow band members to perform a few songs for brave Kim Hye-song.\u00a0Never could I have imagined my two passions in life (music and totalitarian regimes\/cults) could ever combine in the form of such an unforgettable experience. Below is Hye-song sharing her story.\u00a0If you can watch it\u00a0and not cry, there is something seriously wrong with you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/75270928\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/75270928<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event came together very quickly and quite frantically with a phone call from Mr. Lee late one recent Friday afternoon asking if we (my band) were available to perform at some point over the weekend.<!--more--> As soon as he told me about Hey-song, I just couldn&#8217;t say no. Thankfully, my desperate\u00a0calls to fellow band members Ian and Maggie were positively received.<\/p>\n<p>The songs we played and a subsequent performance by the children were filmed for a documentary (see above) focusing on the lives of North Koreans in Seoul. While the songs we played didn&#8217;t make it into the finished documentary, the ice cream Ian, Maggie, and I provided for the kids gets a mention at the 40:17 mark.<\/p>\n<p>With crossed fingers, we&#8217;re all hoping that that the documentary will help Hye-song find her mother. Stranger things have happened. And won&#8217;t that be a happy day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w3LisT0_KUI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w3LisT0_KUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Freedom\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRhDlJQTxOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Redemption Song\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjUJjrVAJLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape To Despair: Stories of North Koreans Living in South Korea A very big\u00a0thank you to Lee Tae-hoon, founder of The Korea Observer, for inviting myself and my fellow band &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,100],"tags":[10,22,126,13,84,24,86],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-north-korea","tag-10","tag-guitar","tag-north-korea","tag-peter-in-the-media","tag-band","tag-peters-music-videos","tag-volunteering","post_format-post-format-video"],"views":8068,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}