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250, who won four categories including “Record of the Year” and “Musician of the Year” at the Korean Music Award in this year, has appeared as a host since 2017 and shows the production process of his album 'Ppong' pleasantly.
Steve Jobs was the modern day Thomas Edison! From his ground breaking i-phones, i-pads and i-pods to paternity issues and finding the sister he never knew, this program will delve into the life of one of the greatest innovators and geniuses of all time.
Jaurim's impactful debut was in 1997. The personal stories of the members. How Jaurim has dealt with adversity. The behind story of 25th special albums and concerts with fans. The spirit of Jaurim's music, youth!
The Exchange Diary is a collaborative film project of two artists, Im Heung-soon and Momose Aya, since 2015. Having exchanged video clips recorded with the iPhone, the artists edited and recreated each other´s work in their own interpretation. The film explores private and social issues surrounding the artists with asynchronous images and sound, and blended time and space.
Roads criss cross our landscape, making it convenient for human beings to travel. However, countless creatures also die as a result of these roads. This piece documents South Korea`s first in-depth study of “road kill.” It shows how drivers, who race along these roads, destroy animals` natural habitats and kill them in road accidents. Adopting an environmentalist point-of-view, this film questions the economic logic that girds development.
On the 1st of April, INFINITE rises to the stage of the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium for their encore concert "SECOND INVASION [ EVOLUTION ]" and faces the heat of fans dying to see them.
Hyun-woo is a school boy who wants to be as invisible as possible. He is filling in information in the school life report card with his father, who came home in a long while. His father is fighting against Ssang Yong Motors for years to be reinstated. However, it doesn’t seem like his father’s state has gotten any better. Why would his father keep going without any promising prospects? We wonder what answers Hyun-woo will get while he glimpses the real world watching his father.
Every year, many Asian workers arrive in South Korea with dreams of prosperity, only to face exploitation in what is known as the 'City of Machines.' This documentary follows three Nepali workers as they endure harsh realities while reclaiming their dignity through poetry.
After the Gangnam Station Toilet Murder Case in 2016, my friends and I started a new campaign by moving from the labor movement to the women's movement. We make Flaming Feminist Action projects that promote feminist movements with women's bodies and sexuality, such as "Liberation of armpit hairs" and "Liberation of nipples". Four years after our feminist manifesto, we open the diary of those four years that were hot, bitter, and damp like a sweltering summer.
Just 0.2 seconds after a sound wave reaches the cochlea, the brain interprets the vibrations as a sound with unique qualities of distance, direction and speed. The emotions and meanings we attach to each sound are subjective.
After two failed suicide attempts, Jiyoon finds herself in a locked hospital ward. During her stay, a video she had previously uploaded to YouTube documenting her first attempt resurfaces due to the platform's algorithm. Titled "Video of Me Smoking a Cigarette Two Hours Before Suicide Attempt," the video has amassed 2 million views and 6,000 comments. Disturbingly, nearly half of the comments on this brief video are harassing and abusive. Upon her discharge from the hospital, Jiyoon embarks on a mission to track down those responsible for the hurtful comments. This personal journey unfolds against the backdrop of 2023 Korea, where news of suicides seems to surface with alarming frequency, painting a stark picture of a society grappling with a pervasive crisis.
A poor filmmaker´s girlfriend is too young. The age difference is shocking. A huge violence awaits in front of the love of those who are without money.
A performance held in Chuncheon celebrates the 50th anniversary of the debut of the mime artist Yu Jin-gyu. The film breathlessly follows what happens before and after the performance – from rehearsals to the after party, interviews and filming. some point out that jin-gyu’s art has changed, while others try and surmise where his desires are directed. jin-gyu reflects on ‘the poetic expression of desire’ through mime and prepares to move forward.
There remains only silence in a US military camp town and the, soon to be demolished, surrounding entertainment district in the northern part of Kyounggi province. In the town, three ex-prostitutes live with pains engraved in their minds and bodies. This film poignantly shows pieces of their memories and their figures wandering through the forgotten site, and reveals the most pathetic truth left behind.
The experiences of five free-spirited individuals trying to break free from societal norms. Each narrative discusses creativity, mental health, labor activism and gender politics.
This music documentary follows the path of Yoon Do-hyun Band on its daring adventure of a tour of Europe. During the month-long tour of Europe, sharing a bus with an unknown British rock band, the band members are faced with the challenge of performing for 2 hours in front of an audience of 20. Such experience brings them back to where everything started. What they were faced with was not a new audience but perhaps their own forgotten selves.
Picnic Cat is a social enterprise that makes and delivers lunchbox meals. It was set up eight years ago by resource-strapped youngsters and grownups to help young people who have opted out of the basic education system. From a small shop making monthly revenues of less than 10 million Korean Won in the spring of 2014, the business grew its revenue to more than 50 million Won in three years. What was happening to the folks working in Picnic Cat in those years? A Corner Shop is the story of how the individuals working in Picnic Cat oscillated between livelihood and humanhood as their shop grew up with them.
A documentary about 90-year-old KIM Mal-hae who never gives up on life even on the threshold of death. This film depicts tragic moments in Korean society starting with the National Bodo League Massacre and the more recent struggle against the building of transmission towers in Miryang, revealing the sometimes silent and sometimes defiant personal struggle of one elderly woman. “If only I could read, then my life would have a beginning and end” is the start of what will be Mal-hae’s first and last confession.
A dance, expressed with interviews of people with jobs such as a daycare teacher, call center employee and cashier. The film reveals reality of the controlled emotion behind the kind ‘smile’ of the jobs.
It is another rainy day in Pyongyang and the long boulevards of utilitarian buildings have taken on a misty shade of grey. School children do daily exercises before saluting a portrait of Kim Jong-un and adults don lapel pins depicting their leader before a day’s work at the farm or factory. Tracing a form of cultural uniformity that is unfamiliar to many in the West, this is a portrait of life behind the world’s last iron curtain.
Five years since he passed away, this documentary reveals some of his very last moments in this world. His bright smile, his stern voice, his warm hands, dignity, humor, innocence, honesty, confession… Discover the Stephen Kim Sou-hwan that you didn’t know about.
“Where does the soul go once it leaves the body?” For religious and philosophical reasons, viewpoints may all differ, but fundamentally, human beings have constantly asked this question. Like a lit matchstick, human life ignites the beauty and ugliness of life intensely and without reserve. The undertaker says, “The more funerals I hold, the more I think that death might not be a period but a comma.
By the Gyeongho river in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, is located Sungsim-won where the patients of Hansen’s disease stay. It was built with the money raised from selling the relief supplies after the Korean War and has been precious home to many Hansen patients. Until Sungsim bridge was constructed over the Gyeongho river, the only vehicle that connected them with the outside world was a steel boat. Currently this small steel boat rests in Sungsim-won bearing the shadow of the painful time in the past.
A total of 17 journalists have been fired since 2008, the beginning of LEE Myung-bak’s presidential term. They fought against the companies that they worked for succumbing to power and are now frustrated at reality where censorship of the press by authority has now become a norm. Can they continue their activities as journalists?
In 2010, the Ministry of Education and Science Technology restored the corrupt foundation to school. Record of 10 years struggling against the corrupt foundation and the story of school member that intensely tried to protect their school from corrupt influences.
The film reconstructs the life of Noriko by selecting scenes from Oz Yasujiro’s films featuring actor Hara Setsuko.
Numerous people are on subway trains running up and down the city center endlessly. There are people who run this decent space “underground”. Under the noisy world today, we approach them to see what life is like underground.
Independent films that do not have a less than 20 years history. They do not have lost hope and passion despite repeated conflicts and ups and downs. It was possible because of the belief that independent films are at the center of the world in their role, even though they are located on the periphery of society. Through the testimonies of many independent filmmakers, current activities, and footage, Korean independent films are shed new light. The periphery is the center, and the center is on the periphery. A reflection on the inside of the independent film industry to find trust in each other, talking about the hopes of independent films looking for a new path.
Growing up alongside her non-verbal brother with a developmental disability, Jinhyun has always sensed the invisible boundaries society draws between them. Her film journeys through the institutions marked by abuse, tracing the shape of a world built on exclusion.
Jongno, Winter is a short film included as one of the ommibus film in If You Were Me 2 (2005). It deals with an incident of a Korean Chinese Kim Won-sup frozen to death on a street of Jongno. He was an illegal immigrant who could not ask for help during a cold winter day with overdue wage over 10,000 USD. He died of exposure on the street. Director Kim Dong-won expands the problem of the illegally immigrated Korean Chinese.
10 years have passed since the Ferry Sewol disaster. People are still waiting for the truth about the incident at Paengmok Port.
The photographer is taking a picture of her and her mother’s nudity. The traces of those days with her mum are left in the eternal frame; as clouds, as waves, as sand.
Director Oh Jae-hyeong, a painter-turned-filmmaker who is now trying to become a pianist, attempts a unique audio-visual performance that combines video and piano performance.
On the 6th of August 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb “Little boy” is dropped on Hiroshima. The film title is about Kim Hyeong-ryul who has become a “little boy” because of the atomic bomb “Little boy.” The two little boys have many things in common; small but powerful, present though unseen. However, the former has tremendous destructive power while the latter overcomes the destruction and takes his steps towards recovery and revealing his identity. Little Boy 12725 depicts story of Kim Hyeong-ryul, second generation victim of atomic air raid, through his inner world.
In December 2024, the 20th President of the Republic of Korea declared emergency martial law. Korean society has once again split into left and right, engaging in extreme hatred and violence. I wanted to explore this sentiment of hatred that is pervasive throughout our society.
On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no nuclear weapons, Yankee go home,” “U.S. sign the peace treaty with North Korea,” and “Expel American imperialists.” This took place in the midst of a public demonstration against the forced conscription of students, joined by approximately four hundred students and held at the Sinrim crossroads facing the Seoul National University main gate. The manner of their deaths, the radicalness of their slogans (they were the first overtly anti-American statements to be heard in public since the conclusion of the Korean War) deeply shocked Korean society at the time. Twenty years have since passed. The world has changed.
Dae-Han News was the name of a propaganda film series made by the Korean government press from 1952 to 1994. During this time, Dae-Han News produced one film clip per week. Long Live His Majesty is a sampling of the Dae-Han News series. Long Live his Majesty is about the dictator RHEE Syngman who was the first president of South Korea. He appears in this documentary as a man whose every day is a birthday.
A Chinese boyfriend suddenly faces the risk of deportation from South Korea for an absurd reason. His girlfriend embarks on a desperate search to find a way to protect their peaceful life together.
For the first time in the history of Korean Buddhism, nine monks ceased hostility by staying in a tent throughout winter. Inside the cold tent, ninety days of meditation begins with seven strict rules. Crisis comes to the monks who had to endure the tent without a heater, and with only a single set of clothes, and a single meal a day, but never once did they groan.
October 27, 2019, the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema. However, while preparing for the stage of reenactment of the first Korean film known as 'Fidelity Vomiting', the biggest controversy that will shake up 100 years of Korean film history comes to the surface... The best sleight of hand in the history of Korean cinema unfolds over the 'first Korean movie'!
What are labor movement leaders of the 1980s and ’90s doing today, 20 years later? This film begins with the daily lives of four middle-aged Korea Telecom laborer “ajussis.” They “live,” hanging off of utility poles, making repairs below manholes, eating lonely meals of soup and rice, making sales, and getting on the red-eye train once a week to see their families. They are within us and among our neighbors, quietly living day by day. But the moment they start talking, what they do becomes more than just “living.” That’s because they have all dreamed of a world for laborers, fighting against Korea Telecom’s unfair layoff program, in the past, present and future.
A cinematic collage of urban life and infrastructure and the natural world throughout South Korea. Shot by Seyoung Lee over the course of 2020.
Just before Lee Seungyoon became famous after winning the music audition program Sing Again, two women just went to “Unknown-musician” Seungyoon without any notice. One day in 2018, the two, who were going through a very tough time, happened to listen to his song and it healed their wounded hearts. After two years, they boldly suggest him to make his music video without any experience. Starting with the ridiculous proposal, their adventurous journey begins.
With the birth of the first female champion in 2009, female wrestlers expect to have official competitions and business teams. In the next 10 years, five female wrestlers who overcame unpopular sports and survived struggle to become Ssireum champions.
The cherry trees planted where waves of history passed bear abundant fruit. Raisa, Tamara, Rafael, Sonya, Vladimir, Lera, Konstantin. We will not forget the names of the people we met on this journey. Nor the bittersweet taste of the cherries.
During the Cold War, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia. The director connects the story of the Kimsisters and the director herself who is studying abroad, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were ignored by men and Western centered power. When the United States and Russia competed with each other to capture the back side of the moon, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia to succeed in the United States. The director discovers the history of other Asian women that took place in 1959, and connects the story of Kim Sisters and the director herself, who is studying abroad. She crosses language, power, history and culture, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were excluded from men and Western centered power, through archived images and collage images of the director.