Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Hyeonjoo wishes to look into the memories of Donghyeon whom she is about to marry. Before Hyeonjoo, Donghyeon had dated a woman named Minyeong for 6 years, and Hyeonjoo wants to erase her from Donghyeon’s memory. She contacts Jaehyeok who runs a mysterious business. Hyeonjoo starts to erase Donghyeon’s memories related to Minyeong, but she hesitates when she sees his last memory of Minyeong.

Forced by her father into keeping a doll that she knows is filled with drugs, Mi-yeon secretly goes to the police for aid. She soon requires their protection as the drug dealers learn the location of their missing stash.

2014/variable duration/sound/16mm multi projection performer:Na, Yeonwu opening performance at Namjun Paik Art Center

Min-woo calls a yoga instructor to his house to learn.. The instructor who visited shows a daring attitude while showing a secret interest, tempting Min-woo, who said he can't follow him, to come close to him and ask him to touch and hold his body.

In a farm, there live a master Dae-Hyeon, Ji-Ae, and a mute Ka-Ya whom they love like a daughter. Also, there is Hyeop who teaches them how to ride a horse once every week. One day, Ka-Ya comes to realize what is sex on the moment of witnessing the scene in which Hyeop is raping Ji-Ae, and she warns Hyeop to don't do that. Surprised, Hyeop runs after and rapes her, and since then, Ka-Ya falls in love with him. Hyeop is move up by Ka-Ya's sincerity and by the time he comes to feel love for her, their relations is disclosed and Hyeop and Dae-Hyeon fight a duel because of it. Shocked at it, Ka-Ya is recovered to speak again. Later, Hyeop and Ka-Ya leave the house as companions of life.

Sun-mi, who is visually impaired, moves out of her house after an argument with her mother. In order to make a living, she starts to work at a cafe run by her close friend from college. And one day, a rather quiet customer pays a visit to the cafe.

A Zen believes in Buddhism and abides by the Gateless Gates. How does one pass by these Gateless Gates? To find spiritual enlightenment, Monks from all over head to Mountain Oh Dae and perform asceticism to find peace and pass through the gates.

Jeongsun is a girl who is a fifteen year old, teenager that thinks friends are more important than family. Always, Jeongsun takes care of Hyunsik who acts like a kid. Hyunsik disturbs Jeongsun's life annoyingly. Hyunsik's behavior has always annoyed Jeongsun. Oneday, Jeongsun suggests Hyunsik to hide-and-seek.

A woman living in main street goes to school in a rich environment, but she is full of loneliness. One day she saw a cloud and decided to go to Sinchon Station, so she met a new man. Her little lie started the meeting between the two.

Hyun-chul and Won-sik finally decide to quit their graduation film. They fly to Laos with the films budget. Jung-hwan who once studied films with them greets them there. Three of them plan to make money by selling multiple vitamins in Laos and complete their wonderful feature scenario at this fantastic place and come back to their homeland. In this way, their partnership begins. But a mysterious taxi driver and a North Korean interrupt their work.

An alien villain, who has returned to the peaceful planet Earth, is a good-natured villain trying to avenge Luka for Thunder Hawk. After an attack on the earthlings, Esperman, and Daily, Khan sends Purpur, Momo, and Lizell to attack Thunderhawk, Esperman, and Daily, but often fails. Kan, who used all sorts of sneaky means, such as kidnapping Dr. Yang and kidnapping Chadol, succeeded in deceiving Esperman and Daily by using the trick of killing his subordinates by himself. He gets Esperman and Daily into trouble, but finally, with the help of the procrastination that appeared, he defeated the Khan gang with the help of the procrastination that appeared. They defeat the enemy and keep the peace of the planet.

There are nine dogs left in a redevelopment area somewhere in Namyangju, abandoned in the heatwave. The dogs under the sun wait for something, endlessly. (@byeollae_stardangdang)

RED were the supporters of the football club Anyang LG Cheetahs. The Cheetahs topped the K-league in 2000 but suddenly relocated to Seoul in 2003. Having no team to support, RED had no reason to continue its existence. But rather than accepting defeat, the die-hard members of RED began a fierce, nine-year struggle that finally led to the birth of Anyang’s own football club once again. FC Sukhavati is the story of these football otakus and their home city, of their growth, solidarity and victory.

Yeong-il is a middle-aged man who lives alone and works at a mechanical factory. A young girl named Bo-ra enters his boring and tedious life. This movie concentrates heavily on the characters and society with just a simple narrative.

Bruce Le stars in this South Korean action film that revolves around some stolen microfilm and a mute beggar with questionable fighting and social skills. Bruce’s character, who seems to go unnamed throughout the film, has turned mute as a result of a traumatic childhood and an abusive boyfriend of his mother. He also has taken on the persona of a cat, communicating only in yowls, growls and caterwauling. He is quite taken with a woman whose boyfriend is a secret agent in possession of important microfilm and is on the run from the mafia.

NCT DREAM 's solo concert and overseas tour. It was held at Jangchung Gymnasium for three days from November 15 to 17, 2019. The overseas tour also included Japan, Bangkok, and other locations.

The film shows the dissolution of the community called family which in Chinese characters mean eating mouths(shik-gu) using the concepts of broadcasting of eating or cooking which are trending nowadays. The sparkling idea of realizing the tastes and styles of 'home meal' is brilliant. The family members of business man father, housewife mother, and student daughter use their fantasies as their own recipes for their 'home meals'.

Dear you, unrelated is a contemporary project that dares to believe in the potential of fiction. Directors Lee Mi-rang and Lee Jong-su attempt to imaginatively restore the lost ending of The Widow. In The Widow: Rewoven, Lee Mi-rang reimagines the protagonist Shinja making a radically different decision from the original. Her film captures the inner turmoil and determination of a woman once dismissed as an Après-girl, tracing her hesitant yet resolute steps toward a new path. In Bearer of Dawn, Lee Jong-su presents a fictional scenario in which Shinja seeks revenge by finding a blacksmith. A newly added sequence in which she chooses a sword shifts the film's tone from drama into one infused with the suspense of a thriller.

"What? My house will disappear if humans reconcile?!" 'Dambi' and his cute friends live in the DMZ. To protect the DMZ, a utopia for animals. you must detonate the bomb and stop the humans from making peace! 'Dambi', 'Qat', 'Fatt Damon', 'Yellowy', and 'Ratty' The DMZ Animal Rangers are ready to go!

Mother and daughter who do not do menstruation use a pregnancy test machine while hiding each other. The result of the tester is two lines. Mother and daughter try to tell their test results to each opponent.

A film student is having her birthday party with a few of her classmates she hasn’t seen in a while. Yeong-ju and Chae-eun become close friends after the party, and the two form a romantic relationship after realizing the chemistry they have. Yeong-ju writes a screenplay based on the story of her and Chae-eun.

Su-jin faints one day for no apparent reason and slips into a coma. After three months of waiting for her to recover, her boyfriend, Kyeong-ho, accepts a position as a ship's officer and goes on an extended tour. Meanwhile, Jang-won, a medical student working under the doctor caring for Su-jin, finds himself falling in love with the ailing woman.

Film Walk is perhaps the one plus ultra of this branch of projection performance, treating the projector literally as an instrument. In this work, which has varied in form across several years,Lee threads 16mm film through only the sound head of a projector tuned on its side, bypassing the projector’s gate. This film is double-perf, meaning a second row of sprocket holes runs along the side of the strip where that soundtrack would normally be. As these pass over the sound head, they produce an electronic purr, or, when amplified enough, an unpleasant metallic grinding comparable to the sound of a buzz saw. Lee pulls the film through the projector by hand, yanking it roughly through the sound head. The variations in speed that result from Lee’s manual movement of the filmstrip cause abrupt changes in the frequency and timbre of the sprocket sound. (Jonathan Walley, Cinema Expanded)

Woo-jin, a boy who is at the funeral of his parents who died in a car accident, meets a boy named San. During the 3-day funeral, the two become closer but...

Cho Young-sook, who has continued the tradition of women's gukgeuk for 74 years, has two brilliant students. Park Su-bin has worked as a female performer who plays male roles in women's gukgeuk for more than 20 years. Hwang Ji-young was raised as a female gukgeuk actress. They are running a women's gukgeuk production center and are struggling to continue the momentum of women's gukgeuk, which is losing popular interest. However, it is not easy to continue performing women's gukgeuk, and the two are changing their minds more and more. The two, who want to make a big stage with women's gukgeuk even once before Cho Young-sook passes away, prepare for a performance of "Legendary Chunhyangjeon," thinking that it is their last performance. However, it is not easy to perform in the absence of funding. Park Su-bin and Hwang Ji-young, as third-generation women gukgeuk artists, spend their days searching for teachers, recruiting them, and scrambling to raise funds for the performances.

Believing herself to be the most miserable person, ‘Joy’ learns about the existence of the "Happiness Destroyers," a group that destroys others' happiness. She uses all her savings to hire them and selects three people on social media whose happiness she wants to ruin.

Peaceful unification between North and South Korea is about to take place. Therefore, the DMZ area near Panmunjom (JSA) will be designated as a Special Peaceful Zone (a.k.a SPZ) for unification of the Korean Commonwealth. So, Panmunjom has entered a overall development phase. However, murder takes place in the DMZ. The suspect is a deserter who is only known as code-name Firefox, the special agent of North Korea.

An exchange of strawberries and a used household appliance turns into a nightmare for Sun-kyung when her partner turns up dead. Now she must follow the trail of a disturbing stranger.

Major corporations and the financial industry are thought to be the case of growth in exports and also the dangers of the IMF. The realities of the '97 Asian Financial Crisis and the IMF bailout are looked into in detail. While the government-led economic growth was being replaced by a neo-liberalistic one represented by a ‘global standard,’ there was an expert bureaucratic body. Meanwhile, Korea’s first general trading company was turned into the 4th largest major corporation by Kim Woochoong, who criticized the government and pushed for greater focus on international exports. With the old order of Korean economics facing the new, the summer of ’99 tells the story of the ticking time bomb of Daewoo.

The female protagonist was originally an ordinary female teacher. In order to share some of the burden of family life with her husband, she did tutoring and tutoring for others. At first, she really enjoyed this kind of life until she found out that the person she tutored started plotting against her!

The film concerns the playboy son of a rich man. After he gets a village girl pregnant, she commits suicide. The playboy is later murdered by his ex-wife.

A generous businessman is betrayed by a jealous office worker when he marries another woman. The employee takes the company's secrets and sells them to the competition in an effort to destroy his happiness.

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Former member of Korea's legendary group TVXQ!, Kim Jun-su, presents the first chapter of his new future on screen for the first time. This live concert movie captures his powerful vocals and dazzling stage presence, featuring multiple classic hits and a variety of stunning performances across different styles, offering a feast for both the eyes and ears. While reliving each moving moment, the audience can also take a behind-the-scenes look at his meticulous preparations for the concert.

Segment 1: "Absence" (부재, bu-jae) by Han So-ri So-yeong, a college entrance student, seeks to borrow the power of the scholarship foundation to raise her tuition fees. She finds out that she needs her parents' public certificate and is put in a difficult situation because of her missing father. Segment 2: "Forgotten Day" (잊혀진 하루, ich-hyeo-jin ha-ru) by Lee Sun-young-IV Eun-sook's family do not even greet each other, let alone talk. Eun-sook, the mother of the family, tries to restore the relationship, but her family is not interested at all. On Eun-sook's birthday, she sets up her own birthday table, but her family does not come. Eun-sook eventually explodes when her family returns home late at night and doesn't even know it's her birthday. (Source: HanCinema)

Fourteen-year old girl, Da-bin and her family can’t afford a proper funeral for her mother. When the family finds out that the cremation cost is cheaper if they cremate her in the precinct of her mother’s old registered address, the family goes on a journey to give her a proper burial, but the journey proves to be difficult.

A high school freshman, Mi-ran, trips on the rope while practicing group jump roping for the school field day. Mi-ran’s novice homeroom teacher, Chae-young, replaces Mir-ran with another student, and Mi-ran feels confused. The next day, Mi-ran trips on the rope again. After arguing with Chae-young, Mi-ran makes a decision that can never be reversed.

Seong-pil, an actor, is traveling through Jeju Island when he sees an ad looking for actors. He follows the ad that leads him to Pong-ddol. The film captures their sincerity without losing the humor. What does film and life mean to you?

On Jihwan’s journey for his next novel, he encounters Hansung, his old friend and novel writer. Jihwan followed Hansung into a strange valley only to fail to catch Hansung, a place where he came across a black covered note. Jihwan refers the novel and mimic one. After that, revealing intricate connection between Hansung and Jihwan.

In a world where tall spires fill the sky and unnecessary things are mercilessly discarded, Mogwi, who failed to prove his usefulness and was abandoned by humans as a child, wanders from place to place and ends up staying in a scrapyard. Mogwi, who is wounded, expresses hostility to everyone, but gradually opens up his heart to the robot Rom, who he meets by chance in the scrapyard. Mogwi knows that Rom desperately dreams of returning home, and together they go through hardships and adversities to find Rom's home.

The only school in the riverside village is about to close. A year ago, middle school student Sanha’s friend threw herself in the river. Sanha’s novelist mother writes a terrifying yet sad story under her daughter’s name.

Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.

Byung-tae and Young-ja are married. His mother wants them to move out and they are faced with the harsh realities of making a living. Byung-tae perseveres and finally gets a job at a conglomerate. But Young-ja, ashamed of her husband's position, lies at her school reunion that Byung-tae has just been promoted to an executive director. On her birthday, he returns home late and they fight. Later, she finds out that he must entertain clients by drinking endlessly and she feels sorry for him. Byung-tae despairs of his life of drinking late hours almost every night. But seeing people jogging in the early morning hours inspires him to push on.

Chang-gu fights and kills a leader of Seoul's organized crime and he takes the reigns of power as a result. Rival gangs from other regions in the country band together to oppose Chang-gu. Overwhelmed, Chang-gu seeks the assistance of the police.

Deok-jung, a taxi driver who speaks of death as casually as small talk, receives a terminal diagnosis. He buys a worn-out coffee vending machine — a mirror of himself — and sets out to find meaning in whatever time he has left. At a cheap lodging house, he crosses paths with Jeong-suk, a down-on-her-luck karaoke hostess past her prime. Moved by something he can't quite name, he offers her a deal: look after the machine, and he'll call it a relationship. Bound together by hardship and loneliness, the two begin to quietly tend to each other's wounds, and what started as a contract slowly becomes something neither expected. Before he goes, Deok-jung leaves Jeong-suk the vending machine as his final bequest — and in that rusted, weathered thing, she finds a reason to begin again.

An old dog is living in a vacant lot. Camera approaches the villagers to reveal the dog. While people share their memories, memory and reality are intertwined to form an atmosphere.

After the war, Lucy enters the underground city with Lucy's friend Emma, separated from her boyfriend, with the mp3 player left by her boyfriend Scott, and lives in hiding. Emma, tired of living in the underground city for two years, is offered to Lucy to go out of the underground city.