This: Kaesong lets Choco Pie fever get out of control-INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily

Reminded me of this, from Park Chan-wook’s 2000 film JSA:

jsa mmm…chocopie (sorry, I lamely can’t get the video to embed correctly.)

The conversation goes:

Lee Byung-hyun: Hyeong…

Song Kang-ho: Thing is, I don’t understand why we can’t make stuff like this in our country.

LBH: Hyeong… hey, you don’t want to go down South? I mean, you could stuff yourself full of choco-pies.

[uncomfortable silence]

YBH: Geez, forget it then.

SKH: Listen, you little bastard, I’m just going to say this once so listen good. I dream of a day when our country will make cookies that taste a thousand times better than South Korean cookies. Got it? But until then, I have no choice but to dream about these cookies.

LBH: Ah, let’s forget about it. You’re all talk anyway…

Choco-pie: the great divider and uniter.