Before the Korean War, her mother's family had taken a trip north from their home in Jeolla Province, South Korea, stopping in Pyongyang along the way. It was during those years abroad that Gendry-Kim learned her mother had a sister who might have been living in Pyongyang, North Korea. “The Waiting,” her latest work since “ Grass” - a 2019 critically-acclaimed graphic novel on the plight of a Korean woman forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during WWII - continues Gendry-Kim's unflinching portrayal of the displacement caused by war, migration, and bias.
South Korean comic artist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim really began to think about her identity while she was studying art in France in the early 2000s - fielding question after question from uninformed locals sharpened her sense of the divisions and the lack of resolution in Korea's history, and her own.
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