''Susanne Brink's Arirang'' () is a 1991 South Korean/ Swedish film based upon the life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult

Korean adoptee The international adoption of South Korean children started around 1953 as a measure to take care of the large number of mixed children that became orphaned during and after the Korean War. It quickly evolved to include orphaned Korean children. ...

from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country. The real Susanne Brink died of cancer in January 2009 at the age of 45; she was interred in her hometown of

Norrköping Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...

Cast

* Choi Jin-sil as Susanne * Åsa Älmeby as Nurse * Kim Yun-kyeong * Malin Berghagen as Ulrika * Pierre Boutros as Christer * Lars Green as Rune * Pia Green as Inger * Jeon Suk * Helena Lindblom * Park Yong-soo * Niclas Wahlgren as Willy * Mona Seilitz as Birgitta * Kim Ji-young

References

* Hübinette, Tobias.
The Nation is a Woman: The Korean Nation Embodied as an Overseas Adopted Korean Woman in Chang Kil-su's ''Susanne Brink's Arirang''
. ''Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context'', Issue 11, August 2005. Retrieved on 6 December 2008. * Hübinette, Tobias. "The suffering and shaming of Korea".
Comforting an Orphaned Nation
', pp. 126–143. Retrieved on 6 December 2008. * Hübinette, Tobias. "Susanne Brink's Arirang".
The adopted Koreans of Sweden and the Korean adoption issue
', pp. 9–11. Retrieved on 6 December 2008. * Hübinette, Tobias. "Representing Adopted Korean Women in Korean Feature Films".
Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans
', pp. 118–119. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.

External links

* * 1991 films 1990s Korean-language films 1990s South Korean films South Korean drama films 1990s Swedish-language films Films about adoption 1991 multilingual films Swedish multilingual films South Korean multilingual films Swedish drama films 1990s Swedish films {{1990s-SouthKorea-film-stub