Taesung Lee: Midway Point

Solmi Choi Dept: Stuck at a midway point between past and future, Taesung Lee and Solmi Choi bonded over a shared history of despair: the hunger, the fear, the dangerous escape from a country known to imprison dissenters in concentration camps; their parents and siblings dead or missing; life on the run, according to The Star. He made me feel less alone, she says and they met two years ago at a rooming house for refugees in the Chinese city of Yanji, a river and a day s walk from the country they fled. In quiet corners, they whispered stories, prayers, promises. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.