A South Korean TV documentary program about North Korea defectors was awarded a prize at a world media festival in Canada, a local TV network that produced the program said Monday.
“‘Tears of Lost Souls: North Korean Refugees’ won in the Investigative and Current Affairs Programs category at the Banff World Media Festival 2013 during an awards ceremony held on Sunday,” KBS said, adding that it was the first KBS program to receive the honor.
The Banff festival, affectionately known as the Rockies, is one of the world’s most authoritative international TV and digital media festivals, along with the Emmys of the United States and Monte Carlo TV Festival of Monaco.
Produced by South Korea’s largest TV network KBS, the documentary shed new light on the issue of North Korean defectors through the life of one who chose to live in a third country, not South Korea, which is presently home to more than 25,000 defectors.
The program was broadcast on KBS 1TV in April last year. (Yonhap News)