Time Flies
In an alternate universe, during the Korean War, two missiles were launched into the sky and hit the atmosphere creating a disturbance no one had ever seen. Time as we know it broke and now the farther you are from the Earth the slower time moves, which means those two missiles have been flying at each other in slow motion for decades.
Jong-Sun Pak is a Korean immigrant and the lead US scientist trying to reverse the disturbance at the former air force base Fort Hunter in Hawaii. His teenage daughter Grace is obsessed with flight, tending to the outlawed and abandoned airplanes on the base.
When Jong-Sun gets new information about his adopted country’s military plans, he is willing to risk learning more about Grace’s illicit discoveries in the sky.
Commissioned by The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Inspiration
Inspired loosely by my grandfather’s experience in the Korean war and later immigration from Korea. From being pressed into service in the North Korean army as a child, to testing to be one of the 10 brightest young men in South Korea sent to study in the US, to speaking seven languages and developing the preservatives in food, my grandfather lived an extraordinary life. Which he didn’t like to talk about. I have a deep desire to delve into where I came from and doing it through this sci-fi lens feels like the best way to explore his life as he’s not here to correct me.