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It is believed by many research organizations believe that sex trafficking has in fact become one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and it is happening almost everywhere in the world, even in Korea Town in Los Angeles. A college club at the University of Southern California known as Korean Culture Knight hosted a theatrical performance to address the seriousness of this issue.
Korean Culture Night (KCN) is actually known among Christians to have a rather misleading name. The student organization with many branches across several major universities including UCLA, is a theater club featuring problems and issues that could occur among Korean Americans and Korean immigrant families. However, their performances are not necessarily about Korean or Korean American culture besides a single traditional Korean music performances or demonstrations of K-pop here and there, but instead the members use the productions to deliver a carefully inserted Gospel messages to the Christian and non-Christian audiences.
This year, KCN decided to address the more macroscopic issue if sex trafficking through the story of a young orphaned Korean American boy, Bryant (Wayne Park) who grew up working for a mob boss Han (Joshua Moon) who tricks women into becoming prostitutes. While Bryant is working for Han, his father Jisuk (Jonathan Yang) was searching for his son for 15 years, trying to track down Han, who was his old friend.
One day, Bryant runs into Robin (Sophiea Kim) while they were trying to rob the same house. The difference was that Robin was stealing to help those in need. Later, the two main characters get closer and share their lives with each other. However, Bryant hides the fact that he is an active participant in sex trafficking. Eventually, Bryant recommends that Robin participate in a K-pop audition, but little does he know that the audition was a trap by Han to lure girls to kidnap.
Bryant soon discovers that Han had taken Robin, and with the help of his best friend Luke (Kevin S. Lee), break into Han’s office to rescue Robin. In their most dire moment, Jisuk arrives and pleads with Han to take him instead of his son, immediately bringing into mind the ransom of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the end, Han is killed in a fight and the father and son survive, where they finally reconcile with each other.
Most of the staff and actors of KCN are also active members in a number of Christian ministries at USC including Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), Korea Campus Mission (KCM) and Inter-Varsity (IV), and they had all sacrificed a great deal of time they could have been using for leisure and study for a chance to let the community know about the seriousness of sex trafficking and to share the Gospel message.
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