nickname Flower of Unification or Flower of Reunification () by the North Korean government. She was also made the subject of the documentary Hail Lim Su-kyung, the Flower of Unification (1989). Political career In April 2012, she was elected to the 19th National Assembly as the Democratic United Party's 21st proportional representative. In June 2012, in a confrontation with a North Korean defector in a bar, Lim hurled insults and referred to ruling party lawmaker Ha Tae-keung (하태경) as a "son-of-a-bitch betrayer" and another as a "traitor" in what was described by Korea JoongAng Daily as "an alcohol-fueled tirade at a Seoul restaurant", questioning their legitimacy to challenge her as a lawmaker. This led to public protests. The Argentinian filmmaker José Luis García made the 2012 documentary La chica del sur ("The Girl From the South") on Lim and his experience at the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, where he met her. The film shows Lim's struggle for a reunified Korea in 1989, and two further reunions between her and Garcia in South Korea and Argentina in 2012. La chica del sur tries to show the development of her thoughts and character after years of media attention, prison, the tragic death of her son and divorce. It was shown and awarded in the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2012 and Lakino festival 2013. In 2014, the documentary received the Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor (Cóndor de Plata) for Best Documentary. See also Juche faction, the South Korean political faction advocating Juche Pomchonghakryon, the North Korean organization roughly equivalent to Hanchongryun Korean reunification Politics of South Korea South Korean defectors 386 Generation References Citations Sources External links 임수경 방북 사건 임수경평양축전참가사건 [고종석 기획연재 여자들] <21> 임수경 통일이 되든, 안 되든… 그녀는 영원한 '통일의 꽃'이다 – 한국일보 2009년 06월 22일 임수경 막말 논란… 백요셉 "탈북 대학생에 하태경 변절자XX 내손으로" 폭언 1968 births Minjoo Party of Korea politicians Korean nationalists Living people Members of the National Assembly (South Korea) 21st-century South Korean women politicians 21st-century South Korean politicians South Korean Roman Catholics Hankuk University of Foreign Studies alumni Left-wing nationalism in South Korea Sogang University alumni Female members of the National Assembly (South Korea)