.> ... the story of the South Korean activist and farmer Hwang Dae-Kwon. Hwang was a militant antiimperialist protester in the 1980s, a dangerous activity during that time of martial law. In 1985 he was arrested by the secret police and tortured for sixty days until he confessed to spying for North Korea. He was then thrown into prison, where he spent thirteen years in solitary confinement. During this time, he says, his only friends were the flies, mice, roaches, and lice that shared his cell, along with the weeds he met in the prison yard. This experience turned him into an ecologist and practitioner of nonviolence. He realized, he told me, that all the violence he had endured was a mirror of the violence in himself.


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"無実のスパイ容疑で逮捕され、１３年間、独房で過ごすことを余儀なくされたファン・デグォンが、野草との出会いから編み出したエコロジー思想とは。
釈放後、ファンさんが暮らす韓国南西部のエコビレッジ、生命平和マウル、そして、原発、米軍基地と韓国と同じ問題を抱える沖縄、福岡とファンさんと旅しながら、文化人類学者、辻信一さんが「降りる」、
「弱さ」をキーワードに「人間の未来」を問うていきます。
獄中で死の淵にあえぐ彼の前に、野草が現れた。
小さき命の世界から紡ぎ出された珠玉のエコロジー。（辻信一）
道ばたに生える草や花、その間に生きる虫、そして人間ー、
すべてが、この世界を美しくするために生まれてきた存在です。（ファン・デグォン）"
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