From 2011 to 2012, Soni Kum conducted art workshops with North Korean migrants at the Seoul Art Space Seongbuk, a residency funded by the Seoul Cultural Foundation in South Korea. It was a grassroots art project, a project to hold workshops with people who risked their lives to cross the border and migrate from North Korea. As the division of Korea continues, it becomes difficult for individuals to survive in North Korea.  She imagined what it would be like for the dancers and youth to risk their lives to cross the river, find a way to live, and migrate to South Korea.

The workshop was held at the Saegnet School in South Korea, an alternative school for youth who escaped from North Korea, which opened in 2004 to help them adjust to the culture and life of South Korean society. About 10 youths in their late teens to mid-20s are living together. Through the art workshops, she was able to learn a small piece of the unimaginable hardships that the youths have gone through. That small piece made me imagine the whole situation of the rest.

While facing the darkness of East Asia as an artist, Kum was inspired by Jacques Derrida's idea of "forgiveness". She sought a path of spiritual sublimation in search of true “salvation/resurrection”.