A tribute to my Hometown: Yeomseong-ri

Korea is the only divided country in the world. Still the tragedy of the first generation of displaced people exists due to the division since the 1950 Korean War. Their hometown is in North Korea, but they moved to the South in the chaos of war and could never go back. That was when they were all teenagers. Now they are in their 80s. Their biggest wish is to visit their hometowns in North Korea, but their dream is not likely to come true. This film presents a miracle to this first generation of displaced people in South Korea. The production team succeeded in filming the real life in their hometowns. This was a difficult job in the pandemic when North Korea closed its borders even tighter, and the tension between the two states got worse. Thanks to virtual production technology, the displaced people got a chance to visit their hometowns in the virtual world. MBC fulfilled the wish of the displaced by using virtual reality technology, expanding the boundary of the broadcast documentary. In this way it provided an opportunity to empathise with the pain of separated families and the Korean peninsula from the scars of war.