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A mem­ber of the AG (Avant-gar­de Group) as well as lea­der of the group Space & Time (S.T.) 1969 – 1980, Lee Kun-yong hel­ped to open the hori­zon for con­tem­po­ra­ry art in Korea through his expe­ri­men­tal appro­ach to con­cep­tu­al art, per­for­man­ce and instal­la­ti­on. When Lee atten­ded the 8th Paris Biennale in 1973, the expe­rien­ce dee­ply chan­ged his thin­king, and he began to con­si­der the body as an artis­tic medi­um in itself. He focu­sed on per­for­man­ces rela­ted to spa­ce, situ­a­ti­on, site and the body, giving it the name ​‘event’; dra­wing a line bet­ween ​‘hap­pe­nings’ and his own prac­ti­ce. From 1975 to 1979, Lee pre­sen­ted about 50 ​‘events’ in dif­fe­rent loca­ti­ons and exhi­bi­ti­ons, and alt­hough docu­men­ta­ti­on of Lee’s per­for­man­ces is extre­me­ly rare, Event Logical shows one of the­se events. (Art Cinema OFFoff)

13-year-old Kim Young-chul, who reads his mother and is ill, has a father and two younger brothers who cannot afford to live. Neighbors who feel pity for this and sympathize with Dong-jang take the center stage and decide on her stepmother, so that Yeong-chul marries her father. However, the family faces difficulties due to the rude behavior of his younger brother Yeong-i. Her stepmother takes all of her and takes care of the poor children with her patience and sincerity. Eventually, order is established in her home, her laughter spreads, and her children gradually understand her mother.

The members of the summer service group in Dong-A Women University go up LST under the command of Commander Lee, the head of the public information team. The guards in the fleet grow restless and there are various happenings. To establish a new order, Captain Park Sang-Do directs field training including the students. Jeong-A apologies for rejecting the training and joins the public information activities. On the wedding day of Jeong Tae-Yeon, a discharged soldier, and Sun-I, a lady in an island, Captain Park and Master Sergeant Jang get on board an express boat. They sink the spy ship but Master Sergeant Jang dies in battle. The burial at sea is held and the students mourn over his death, too.

Sei, after murdering Ji-young for her inheritance and unintentionally causing the death of Ji-young's driver, is lured into a trap by the driver's fiancée, Hye-sook, who deceives Sei by making it seem as though Ji-young is still alive, leading to an escalating confrontation where they eventually become fugitives and lovers, but their brief happiness ends when Hye-sook falls to her death, and Sei is arrested.

An experimental short film by Lee Jeong-hee

A young man wakes up to the sound of an alarm and a woman is lying next to him. He puts on his clothes and goes to a park and approaches another woman. Afterward, he seduces a woman near Seoul Train Station and has intercourse with her. Then he returns to his room and gives the woman in the room a gift that he has received from another woman.

Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. Yeong-ah kills the private eye but not before her secrets are revealed

It is difficult for Heo Mu-Tae, a minor clock, to prepare his wife's hospital expenses with his salary. Without losing courage, he gets a second job at dawn and night saying nothing to his company because he needs money to buy the battery of an artificial heart to expand his wife's life

In college days, Mi-Nu, So-Hee, and Si-Hyeong were friendly each other. When both Mi-Nu and So-Hee promise to get married, Si-Hyeong gives blessing for them even if he feels pains of love failure. The news is released that Mi-Nu is lost and dies when he goes to a foreign country to collect news articles together with friendly mission of the neutral nations. Si-Hyeong feels sorrowful to hear the news, but gets married to So-Hee, who is pregnant, for her wellbeing. When they forget Mi-Nu's accident, Si-Hyeong hears the news in the newspapers that Mi-Nu was kidnapped by the enemy but escapes dramatically in 15 months. Mi-Nu feels much disappointed to hear the marriage of both Si-Hyeong and So-Hee, but prays their wellbeing and leaves for New York as a resident staff reporter.

The Choi family has long protected their golden Buddha which is said to contain the power to guard the fate of the nation. Both Chinese bandits and the Japanese military learn of this statue and Choi requires the aid of Iljimae to protect it.

Kim Deok-pal becomes a knave at a young age because of his father's indulgence. While living such a life, he gets to know Ko Seon-mi and tries to become a new person, but fails and is assaulted. After his father dies, Deok-pal starts his thug life for his stepmother and half-brothers. One day, while fighting with those who assaulted him, he is chased by the police and flees to the church. However, the pastor hands over Deokpal to his detective, and Deokpal hates religious people.

Single-channel video, no sound, 2 min 7 sec

An experimental short film made by Kaidu Club

Film '74-A and Film '74-B are abstract experiments in which she cut and pasted films taken while running in Myeongdong, scraps of American movies, scribbles on sound magnetic film, and dots on lead film, and titled them according to the style of title construction (no title or strange symbols) that was popular among Western artists at the time.

In the video "Self-portrait 78," Kwak Duck-jun filmed himself rubbing his face against cracked glass in which his eyes, nose and lips appeared twisted and contorted. While looking silly at first, he expressed his deepest desire to overcome his uncomfortable identity crisis.

Young-Ho and Seon-Hee fall in love during Korean War. As soon as they marry in a hurry, Young-Ho goes to a battlefield.

Twenty-three-year-old Hong Yeong-mae marries Park Gyeong-su, a wounded veteran. She takes in her ex-wife's five children and, with her devoted love and affection, builds a family and gradually transforms the village. They build a dam to divert water from the lake, successfully establishing an all-weather project, and resolve to establish an electricity line. However, their financial situation makes this impossible. However, the dying Heo Yeong-gam donates his entire fortune to a psychic, pledging that the villagers will unite and contribute to the village's development.

Awesome men who gather in loyalty and scatter in loyalty. The gangsters who have been scattered to do good for the town they live in gather again in the middle of Myeong-dong. The reason is the news that new rogues have appeared. Gathering to correct their unjust behavior, they unite to punish the bad guys and go back to their respective hometowns.

A woman breaks up with her fiance because of his chronic lying. She still loves him and waits for him, in the hope that he will change his ways. However, when she learns that he has made plans to marry a nurse, she considers the proposal of her professor who has a crush on her.

Myeong-ae loses both her parents during the Korean War and her sister dies soon after. She wanders to Seoul and takes a job in a bar. There she meets, Hak-su, a university student and the two live together. Myeong-ae gives birth to Hak-su's daughter, but soon after, Hak-su is killed in an explosion. Giving up her infant for adoption by an American family, Myeong-ae takes the name 'Anna' and becomes a prostitute for American soldiers.

Two close friends arrive in Seoul from a small village to pursue their dreams, but the realities of life are too much for them to bear.

Lee Chang-Min, a fifth grade primary school boy, moves to Seoul from Andong city, North Kyungsang Province. He makes friends with Yong-Nam, who is the boss of the kids and will emigrate to USA, Young-Cheol who has a distorted nature owing to his disabled body, and Eoksun who is a chatterbox. Chang-Min can comfort and encourage his friends so that every kids in the village likes him to let Yongnam be left alone. The kids grow their dreams, clean the village, collect the waste goods, and practice playing soccer and Taekwondo. One day when Yongnam soon leaves for USA for emigration, a soccer game competition is held to commemorate the farewell of Yongnam, in which all of the residents in the village join to promise brighter future.

Jang Hoon feels a sense of national alienation in Japan, and pours all his passion into baseball to relieve his resentment. His dream is to place a one-shot bet at Gossien Baseball Field. However, due to his natural temperament, he is mistaken for a problem child and is expelled from high school baseball. However, he broke the phone with the arrangement of his senior and joined a professional club. At first he was treated as a lowly player, but 20 years later, he becomes an unmatched great player in the Japanese baseball world.

A stern matron lives together in a luxurious home with her three married children. The eldest son's wife is not popular with the family because of her cross temper and foolishness. She invests all her husband's fortune in paintings that turn out to be forgeries. Her husband brings his mistress into the household as a maid. His mother is aware of their relationship and it has her approval.

This work documents the installation project Situation Plastic III, presented as part of Octobre in Bordeaux, a festival organized by the city of Bordeaux, France. The installation unfolded in three stages on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where the sea and a lake meet. In the first stage, the installed objects remained underwater for one month. In the second, they floated on the surface of the water for a day. In the third, they were released and allowed to rise into the sky. Situation Plastic III can thus be understood as a collaboration between the installed objects, nature, and the participants. The event was filmed with a 16mm camera.

Kim's first moving-image work, made between 1971 and 1973 with an 8mm movie camera.

An experimental short film made by Kaidu Club

Kim Jomson's 75-13 subverts visual stereotypes by cutting through ready-made films with the tip of a knife along with fast-paced music to create a so-called "art of listening and music of seeing".

Koo In-Gap who became a millionaire by investing on real state is a primary target for his two executive directors Park and Song's sincere fawning. In-Gap tries to please his new mistress in the bed, but he isn't strong enough. All kinds of massaging and herb medicine are supplied for his improvement of strength, and finally he becomes very strong by having some variously mixed food. But exerting himself too much for his mistress's pleasure he dies.

Nam-soon, who has come to Tokyo with a dream of becoming a singer, falls for the words of the drug dealer Cheon-ga and sacrifices her purity, but in the end is betrayed by him.

Shin and Suk have become well-known as singers but Shin misunderstands their professional relationship to be an emotional commitment. Hurt that Suk has fallen in love with Ji-seung, Shin decides to confront his rival and fight for the woman he loves

Park Young is an architect student who persistently dangles about a college girl Oh Kyeong-A who he met on a bus and finally they come to love each other. However they meets opposition from Kyeong-A's parents who want to make her marry on purpose. So the two lovers begin to runaway trip.

Coming back from the Vietnam War, Seong-Kimg becomes to know that his fiancee Mi-Yeon has betrayed him and now is a concubine of Mr. Song. Being captured by a desire, he acquires the stock exchange and wants to jump up to the stairs of a desire. On the other hand, Young-Sun, from his hometown, has a baby of him. While revenging himself on Mr. Song, he meets many women. In his office, he receives a call that Young-Sun killed herself by taking poison, shocked by her baby's death. Then, Seong-Kil regrets and cries for the first time, knowing that he was wrong.

The Air Force Academy attracts young people who only dream of flying. Although their hometowns, schools, and personalities are different, those who want to achieve the same dream undergo intense training together. After hard training, the long-awaited entrance ceremony is held as an official cadet, and under strict discipline, they learn society while feeling the camaraderie. Cheol-min is the son of a wealthy man, Yong-su is a young farmer, and Young-sik is the son of an Air Force sergeant.

Il-Man was separated from his parents at his young age and was brought up by his teacher, a Taekwon martial art trainer. After his teacher dies, he comes to Seoul to study and look for his parents. Il-Man faints owing to hunger in front of Taekwon martial art hall. Thanks to help of both Kang-Shik and Jin-Suk, however, he stays at Kangsik's home and finds out his mother by their help.

A seagull agent who infiltrated Japan from Pyongyang plans to smuggle a large amount of drugs into South Korea. The Korean Anti-Aircraft Investigation Office, which has decrypted the radio, disguises an investigator as a foreign sailor and infiltrates Fukuoka. The undercover investigator meets the drug and detective head of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Agency, disguised as a detective named Kurogami. Keiko's father, Katsuo, who has finished serving his sentence as a smuggler, fights over the drug hidden between the Seagull and the investigator. In the place where everyone gathers around drugs, Japanese prisoners led by Chief Kurogami raid and arrest all of them, and the conspiracy on the Pyongyang side is destroyed.

Two young men with high ideals and unrealistic expectations of life quickly learn that they need to lower their standards.

Executive director Choi's family are bothered by their housemaid named Jeong-Ok. On the other hand, a taxi driver named Lee Ki-Dong is looking for a rich man's daughter to rise suddenly in the world. One day, the housemaid takes clothes of Choi's daughter without concession, and meet and loves the taxi driver who pretends to be an owner driver. Both persons, who are not intelligent, pretend to be wellborn. Thanks to excellent help of Choi's son, both can love more deeply. The housemaid understands what a human being's truth is, and finally becomes a top class singer. Being aware of his lover's identity, the taxi driver gets married to a girl who is in good harmony with his personal status. Thus, the housemaid also realizes that the truth and wellbeing of a human life exist near herself.

In the old days, Park and Yang had a love affair with Jo Yong-hee, the daughter of a boarding house. The two old men meet in the same neighborhood for the first time in 40 years and run a Bokdeokbang, and even Ms. Cho Yong-hee runs a chicken house in this neighborhood with her only daughter, Lira. The two old men still fight over Ms. Jo even after they get older, and the sons of the two old people compete in good faith for Ms. Jo's daughter, Lira. However, the two sons, who are extremely filial, give up their love fight and support their respective fathers. The two old men, who know the filial piety of their children, rather support their children. As a result, the friendship between the two old men, which has been going on for half a lifetime, deepens.

In-ho becomes paralyzed due to the cerebral paralysis but he is normal mentally. His mother puts him in a school for the disabled and is dedicated to him. School teaches to use the typewriter but he cannot even do that. As his father dies from the liver cancer, he types with his mouth and paints to cheer up his mother. He paints at a contest thinking of hardship that his mother has to go through. In-ho and his mother stride into the better tomorrow.