How can a single line drawn on a map change the fate of so many people? North Korea and South Korea, one people who not long ago lived as one nation, now lead completely separate realities on opposite sides of the military boundary known as the 38th Parallel. border | korea juxtaposes the two countries in paired photographs: students' uniforms, soldiers facing one another across the line, the buses and subways people ride, the umbrellas they raise in the rain. Separated by only 190 kilometres, Seoul and Pyongyang each go about their daily lives, and the babies born into these two worlds grow up with the values impressed on them by their distinct ways of life.