This article is about the Finding Dispersed Families program. For other senses of dispersed families, see Divided family
Finding Dispersed Families
離散家族을 찾습니다
Genre
Live television special
Created by
Korean Broadcasting System
Directed by
Park Hee-ung
Starring
53,536 participants
Country of origin
South Korea
Original language
Korean
Production
Running time
453 hours, 45 minutes
Original release
Network
KBS1
Release
June 30 (1983-06-30) – November 14, 1983 (1983-11-14)
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)
Finding Dispersed Families
Hangul
이산가족을 찾습니다
Hanja
離散家族을 찾습니다
Revised Romanization
Isangajogeul chatseumnida
McCune–Reischauer
Risan'gajogŭl ch'atsŭmnida
Finding Dispersed Families (Korean: 이산가족을 찾습니다) is a special live broadcast created and aired by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) from June 30 to November 14, 1983.[1] The television program aimed to reunite Korean families following the division of Korea and the Korean War.[2] The broadcast was initially filmed at the KBS Headquarters in Yeouido Park in Seoul yet later expanded nationwide and featured cases received from nine of KBS' regional branches.[1]
The program was conceived by director Park Hee-ung to pay homage to the 30th anniversary of the agreement to a ceasefire that brought an end to the Korean War.[3] It was initially pitched as a small segment to be featured on the morning show Studio 830 with the title I Still Haven't Found my Family.[4] Shortly following this pitch, however, KBS received a large number of applications to appear on the program, alerting the producers to the significant number of Korean families dispersed by war and their continued suffering. As a result, KBS president Lee Won-hong granted permission for an extended special broadcast to be aired, which led to the creation of the program.[1]
Whilst the broadcast was originally planned with a duration of 95 minutes, it ran for a total of 453 hours and 45 minutes over 138 days[4] as KBS was inundated with requests for help to re-connect individuals with their lost family members. As a result, 53,000 people were featured on air, uniting 10,000 families over its course.[5]
Finding Dispersed Families received international acclaim and humanitarian praise, cementing its place in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2015.[1] The archives of the program can be accessed by the public via the KBS website or through searching using key words on any Korean portal site. Segments of the broadcast are also available for streaming with English subtitles on Vimeo and YouTube.
^ abcd"The Archives of the KBS Special Live Broadcast 'Finding Dispersed Families' | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". UNESCO. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
^Jung, Lee (2006). Making and Unmaking the Korean National Division: Separated Families in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras. Illinois: University of Illinois.
^Kim, Choong-Soon (1988). "Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography of Korean Family Dispersal". American Ethnologist. 18 (3): 629. doi:10.1525/ae.1991.18.3.02a00370. ISSN 0094-0496.
^ abCultural Heritage Administration (2014). "The Archives of the KBS Special Live Broadcast 'Finding Dispersed Families'" (PDF). Nomination Form International Memory of the World Register.
^Lohr, Steve (August 18, 1983). "War-Scattered Korean Kin Find Their Kin at Last". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
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