Thank you for sharing this! I myself am Korean American with 3 out of 4 grandparents coming from the Pyongyang area and later escaping to Seoul. Also, my grandparents are all devout Protestant Christians extending back generations. My grandmother on my mom's side is a doctor, and my grandmother on my father's side came from a family steeped in selling medicine and pharmaceuticals during the Japanese occupation, who pushed my father and his brothers to all become doctors during the turbulent times when Korea and Seoul were rapidly developing into the cosmopolitan places we see now. The medical field is really ingrained in my family, with my grandmother always keep telling me to become a doctor in my mid-20s, even if I have set aside that ambition a long time ago! This story was extremely inspiring and really just stroke a chord in all of us. I will be glad to share this to them, who would really like to compare how 70 years of history has really shaped the modern cities of Pyongyang and Seoul differently (This being one of the most indepth photojournalistic accounts of the North Korean people I have seen). My mother always loves to talk about what it means to be a "Yi-buk Saram" (people from the northern part of the peninsula) with my grandmother. I remember my grandmother tried to visit her family left in North Korea during one of those trips conducted that allowed select groups of individuals to be reunited with their relatives. Sadly, she tried, but to no avail. But, thanks, I am glad to read the narratives of others like me whose lives were really affected by the politics and history of the division of the Korean peninsula. I don't speak Korean very well either, so do not worry!