On The Korean Front (2024)

The Korean Front in 1950 is a landscape of frozen hills and sudden violence. Henri de Turenne, a young French reporter, moves with the troops for eight months, his dispatches cutting through the chaos of the early conflict. His observations document not just the advance and retreat of armies, but the faces of displaced civilians and the exhaustion of soldiers in their winter gear. The work provides a direct, unadorned record from the Pusan Perimeter to the Yalu River, where geopolitical stakes meet the immediate reality of mud and artillery fire. The truth here is found in the details of a spent cartridge case and the silence after a bombardment.