Rip It Up!
The resident card system in Korea is the result of the unique situation of the Korean peninsula: the division of South and North Korea. It is the ultimate in “Big Brother” states. However, the South...
She Loves to Massage Feet
A woman leaves the city for the countryside in search of freedom. She meets a man who does natural dyeing for a living there. They suddenly get married and go on honeymoon with one of the bride’s...
Sky-blue Hometown
Trough the story and paintings of second generation Korean-Russian artist Nikolai SHIN (SHIN Soon-nam), the forgotten tragedy of Stalin’s 1937 forced migration policy comes alive. Korean-Russians...
Tibet Tibet
“Tibet Tibet” is a nonfiction road movie in which the filmmaker travels to the Tibet mainland from India through China. He filmed the real Tibet from a traveler’s viewpoint. In 1999, a year later, he...
The World Cup of Their Own
A World Cup for all Koreans? The media maintains that all Koreans enjoyed the World Cup Festival. However, there are others who could not. During the World Cup games, held in June 2002, there were...
Angry Wild Lily
In 1990 the old National Assembly passed an ad hoc law that extended the term of the representatives who had been elected in 1986 to nine years. This fired up the wrath of the people. The students...
How Was History Wounded
In 1989, martial law had been lifted for over a year. The filmmakers take as their main thread the interviewers of three media people who are film editors and whose identities are kept hidden, for a...
Beyond the Anti-Du Pont Movement
In 1976, the deserted Zhanghua Coast was chosen for development as the long-term base for the heavy chemical industry of Mid-Taiwan. At the same time, the American Du Pond Company, the biggest...
The Embarrassment of Returning Home
The 1987 lifting of martial law covered Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, but Kinmen and Matzu still remain under the law. The film reveals how only still cameras are allowed in Kinmen, while in Taiwan...