South Korea Movie Reviews Samples For Students

This title of the film is “How to Make Kimchi: according to my Kun Umma”. It is a short documentary directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee. It was shown at the UIC multi-cultural film festival. The film was shot with the help of The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. The main character in the film is the director’s aunt Bong Ja Lee.
The film was shot in 2003 and it won the Jury Award for the Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2003. The film was ...

The South Korean courtroom drama “The Attorney” by Woo-seok Yang was shot in 2013 and was nominated for the multiple awards, among which are the Asian Film Awards 2014, Baek Sang Art Awards 2014 and Udine Far East Film Festival 2014. The movie even won in several categories. Though “The Attorney” cuts to the heart of the spectator by the emotional and touching truth and reality of South Korea in the 1980s. Though the film lasts more than two hours, it keeps the spectator in permanent tension and even draws to tears.
Woo-seok Yang managed to create a film ...

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Thread of Lies is a drama movie that revolves around the story of a family whose daily life is a struggle to make ends meet. The family whom after the father died of accident, their mother was left trying to tide-over her two daughters of their daily needs. Until one day, Cheon-ji, the younger of the two daughters took her own life. Left without any suicide note, the mother and Man-ji, the elder sister were trapped in confusion and suspicion on the reasons why Cheon-ji committed suicide. In their quest to find out the reasons, they were able to ...

Spring and summer

What is contained in the movies?
The spring movie surrounds a young Buddhist apprentice who happens to stay with his master on a floating monastery going round the lake in a mountainous forest of Korea. The master plays a great role in nurturing the young apprentice with respect to Korean ethics and morals. On the other hand, the summer movie which is a continuation of the spring movie brings back the apprentice who is now in his teenage. In this encounter, he meets a mother and her daughter walking along the forest. The daughter happens to be sick and she is being brought to ...

ABSTRACT

During the last decade, Asian horror cinema has seen a surge in popularity throughout the world, especially in western countries. Traditionally, Japan has dominated the Asian horror cinema, but recently Hong Kong and South Korea have emerged as major powerhouses in the genre. Majority of these movies have enjoyed international success. Moreover, many of these movies have been adapted and remade by Hollywood. As the genre continues to grow, there is a need to understand the social conditions, cultural values, and cinematic traditions which influence the horror movies from Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. In particular, ...

Asian horror, as a genre, carries with it a generous mix of scathing subtext and grotesque images. Whether witnessing the wrath of an uncanny ghost girl, seeing people murdered in mountains of gore, or the many subtle avenues in between, many of the best Asian horror films combine shocking sights with potent messages in order to convey an anxiety present in that society at the time. "Setting aside the moral ramifications of such manifest extremities, we can identify the current boom enjoyed by Asian horror and extreme cinema and discern a complex nexus of local, regional and global relationships in play" (Choi ...

The immigration dilemma in the United States dates back to the time immemorial. Many of those who immigrate to the US do so in search of greener pastures, which they believe to find in the United States. In many cases, people immigrate due to suffering and dissatisfaction with their countries of origin. This may be as a result of war, famine or other inevitable factors. However, many of them end up facing unexpected challenges. Edward Park gives an insight into the dilemma faced by immigrants in the article Friends or Enemies: Generational Politics, in the Korean American Community. The challenges ...

The movie “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring” starts with showing a small Buddhist temple on the river. In the temple, there were both old and young Buddhist monks. Leafy trees and clear spring weather evoke peaceful background of this movie. To gather medical herbs and to get into land, two monks have to take a small boat. A young monk teases small animals like frogs, snakes, and fish by suspending stones to them with his innocent smile; at the same time, the old monk observes young monk without any comments. That night an old monk suspends rock to young monk ...

The viewing of Young – Pyŏn Yŏngju “Nanjun Moksori - Murmuring” (1995) documentary film made me wonder how many other women, from South Korea or any other part of the world, have been sexually exploited in wars without any formal accounting of such events. From the estimated number of 100.000 former South Korean sexual slaves, several of them gathered their forces in a public manifestation, asking for apologies and indemnifications from the Japanese government. These requests keep the women alive and fighting, as the sexual slavery experience left them troubled, frustrated, ashamed and hopeless, dreaming of the life ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

- Ethical business practices that take into account the needs of the major stakeholders.
- Conclusion
- Cultural differences and racial tensions.
- Peaceful coexistence and doing the right thing’.
- The right thing to everyone

Introduction

The film reviewed, Do the Right Thing. The film is the 1889 creation of Spike Lee. The film revolves around one day in the life of the people of Brooklyn with a focus on the underlying social and racial strains in the neighborhood.
Thesis: In a society, “doing the right thing” is not only relative but also premised on a number ...

INSIDE NORTH KOREA

Introduction
The video ‘Inside North Korea’ is a documentary from VBS TV, and it is precisely what the name suggests. Hosted by Shane Smith, it shows the different aspects of North Korean society as Shane and his team are conducted through a sightseeing bonanza, planned for them by state guides. The video provides a wealth of information on Kim Sung Un’s North Korea, from its cuisine to its subways, the education system to the protégé training program, etc. An added bonus is the festivities in Pyongyang on the 60th birthday of the party.
The video starts with the ...

This is a 2003 South Korean film in form of a psychological horror. It was written and directed by Kim Ji-woon. This movie was as a result of a folktale entitled ‘Janghwa Hongryeon’ which was done by Joseon Dynasty. This folktale by Joseon has been adapted to several films, including that of ‘a tale of two sisters’. It is basically on two sisters who faced a lot of problems and challenges. This is because after returning from the hospital, they experience several disturbing events which involve them and their step mother. The superb acting of this movie has seen it win a price of the best ...