Running Koreans

It was produced as a promotional video for the Daejeon Expo '93, showing images of South Korea's rapidly growing modern history.

The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings

The Angry Young Men of Korean Cinema

Measuring up well to their older American counterparts –- Scorcese, Coppola, De Palma or Friedkin –- the new Korean auteurs likewise seek to integrate the political turbulence of their land, particulaly the trauma of the

The Great North Korean Picture Show

Welcome to Hollywood, Kim Jong-il style. For the first time, foreign cameras are allowed into the world’s most secretive state’s only film school. In a country where film is a vital propaganda tool, not entertainment, wh

MacKorea

The Korean Black Eyes

In 1966, the girl band ‘All Stars’ was formed centered on drummer Kitty (Jun-im Lim), a third-year high school student. They left the country with an understanding that they were going to perform in Southeast Asia. Howev

An Epistle from the Koreans

Based on a true story about a group of Black teenagers who rob and kill a Korean graduate student.

Looking for North Koreans

South Korean director Jero Yun wants to know what his enemy brothers, the North Korean people, look like. His quest leads him to travel along the China-North Korean border. During his journey, he meets North Korean refug

Korean War in Color

Documentary on the Korean War.

Miss Staff Sergeant

Yu-mi applies to a marine outfit to become their first female member. Finding out about their NO woman-policy, she pushes herself to the extreme and fils a petition. After overcoming many obstacles, she is finally accept

Hidden Scars: The Great Kanto Earthquake Korean Massacre, A Documentary

In the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), which killed nearly 100,000 people, more than 6,500 Koreans were murdered by the military, the police and civilians. This film uses evidence and testimony to examine the

My Korean Cinema

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean films and their ‘field’, actual moments of what is happening here and now

To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out

In 1971, while the Japanese prime minister Sato Eisaku was visiting South Korea to attend a party for President Park Chung-hee, a group of eight South Korean hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) took a direct petition to th

Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Looking back over 20 years later at the Los Angeles riots in Koreatown as a result of the Rodney King verdict.

Korean Schools in Japan

In 1948, after the Japan’s defeat, the General Headquarters and Japanese government ordered that the Chosen gakko, schools for Koreans in Japan,ō be shut down. Koreans in Osaka strongly resisted, and 16-year-old Kim Taei

The Korean Dream

“The Korean Dream” is about a migrant worker who sacrificed 18 years of his life in struggle to fulfill his influence in the Korean society. Likewise, the dreams of many migrant workers have ended with disappointments, t

MR.OH a Korean calligrapher

A serious yet charming personality, Suk Joo Oh is a calligraphy master and a Korean immigrant in the United States who has held firm to his ideals, both as an artist and as a man. In this touching and profound documentar

Korean GENOCIDE

Geumjeonggul in Goyang City, South Korea, was built for the purpose of mining gold during Japanese colonial period and was closed. In October 1950, during the Korean War, in Geumjeonggul, the police massacred hundreds of

Until the Day of Liberation: Retracing Korean Japanese History

Shin Ki-soo spent his life collecting visual materials, and drew upon them to make this film about the history of zainichi Koreans in pre-war Japan. From the massacre of Koreans at the construction site of the Nakatsugaw

Untitled Korean remake of The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

A South Korean remake of 2023 Taiwanese film The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon.