The PrisonerIn 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwangs imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subjectof thought, of writing, of Cold War