Story & Characters

In making the story “Monster,” I read real stories of North Korean refugees on the websites and thought about the unique situation facing the North Korean refugees. First, North Korea is the only communist country with hereditary power transfer. So, I depicted it as an undying monster with an iron heart. Second, in North Korea, anyone challenging the rulers or the system of the country is punished with a lifelong sentence to concentration camps. The harsh sentence is also often applied to the political prisoner’s innocent family members. In worst cases, every direct descendant and any future descendants are forever forced to live within the concentration camps. I expressed this situation with a mother and a daughter captured and enslaved by the monster, who have to work day and night to support the monster with no hope of escaping.