Public Radio · 2026-07-16
A community audio drama by South Korean seniors
In Incheon, South Korea, older residents wrote and performed The Sisters of the Bupyeong Factory in the Songhyeon Senior Welfare Center's 'village radio', evoking the lives of women factory workers in the 1970s–80s.
At the Songhyeon Senior Welfare Center in Incheon, South Korea, a community media project called 'Se.Se.Tong Village Radio' ('generation speaks to generation, and so they connect') has older residents writing and performing audio-drama programmes themselves. It is not a broadcasting station but a neighbourhood 'village radio'; the 16 July event was the public recording of its third season, held in the centre's hall before an audience of about eighty — closer to a live, audience-facing audio-drama recording than to a conventional broadcast. Community radio made by residents or older people exists in many parts of the world, as one branch of community media and local radio.
The piece performed, The Sisters of the Bupyeong Factory (부평공장의 언니들), is set in the Bupyeong industrial zone of the 1970s and 80s and, drawing on real stories woven with fiction, recalls the lives, friendships and loves of the women who worked there. The programme's aim is intergenerational dialogue.
Cast & Crew
- Director Park Mi-young
- Cast and authors a Songhyeon idősügyi központ idősei
Sources: 한국미디어뉴스 (KITV News) (2026-07-16) · Golden Times (2026-07-16)