Category: Movie Reviews

By Farrukh Anique || On the night of September 15, 1986, a woman’s body was found in a field in Hwaseong, a quiet rural area south of Seoul. She had … Read More

By Farrukh Anique || In 2024, insurance fraud worth US$870,000 was committed in Korea, roughly half of it carried out through forged medical documents. This film’s story is, on its … Read More

By Tabbu Shaikh || At first glance, “happyness” is merely a misspelling on a daycare wall – a careless orthographical error painted over a place meant to nurture the future. … Read More

By Farrukh Anique || Recently, nearly thirty-thousand employees of the American multinational tech company Oracle woke up at six in the morning to find an email waiting on their phones: … Read More

By Jacqueline L. Becerra || At the hour of a setting sun, the fluorescent subway lights beam over bent postures looking at phones and over drifting sleepers. Even in transient … Read More

By Farrukh Anique || In 2005, a scandal broke in Gwangju, one that would later be retold as Dogani (도가니). The principal of a special school for children with speech … Read More

By Farrukh Anique || During the Second World War, Japanese soldiers abducted large numbers of underage girls from Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other places, forcing them to satisfy … Read More

By Farrukh Anique In an evening in October 1979, South Korea’s former-military president Park Chung-hee was sent to his grave in the midst of an elegant dinner, killed by his … Read More