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Women peasants work over 14 hours a day but can't earn even a penny. It is obvious that the cost of labour can't be measured merely in money, but I wondered with what those women's labour and sacrifice can be compensated. The ratio of women in the whole peasant population in Korea is over 53%. However women peasant are not be guaranteed their position as subject of agriculture production. I wanted to show their lives which are out of social inter... Women peasants work over 14 hours a day but can't earn even a penny. It is obvious that the cost of labour can't be measured merely in money, but I wondered with what those women's labour and sacrifice can be compensated. The ratio of women in the whole peasant population in Korea is over 53%. However women peasant are not be guaranteed their position as subject of agriculture production. I wanted to show their lives which are out of social interest but keep our land and take responsibility of our food, so I hoped their name to be remembered to all of us. Show more Show less

Two years before the 1988 Olympics in South Korea, Sanggyedong residents were brutally evicted from their homes, to make way for the government's urban renewal plans. Years later, they remain homeless and lost in a bureaucratic maze, in which they are disentitled to a permanent abode. Festivals: Focus On- Korean Retrospective, 11th Jeonju International Film Festival; Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

On the 20th of January 2009, tenants of Yongsan, whose houses had been evicted by force, died in a fire in the middle of the city. The flame reminds me of something I (the director) witnessed in 1991. I was a high school student when I saw a college student set himself on fire. That time people dubbed the politics as "the politics of burning oneself to death". In the June 1987 movement, TV and newspapers reported the death of Hanyol, who was my n... On the 20th of January 2009, tenants of Yongsan, whose houses had been evicted by force, died in a fire in the middle of the city. The flame reminds me of something I (the director) witnessed in 1991. I was a high school student when I saw a college student set himself on fire. That time people dubbed the politics as "the politics of burning oneself to death". In the June 1987 movement, TV and newspapers reported the death of Hanyol, who was my neighbor. This documentary is a deathbed portrait of Korea. Show more Show less

The documentary is about how the Korea Labor Welfare Corporation, with lures of a 1000% performance bonus, continues to operate and remains staffed in spite of the serious risk it gives to its workers health.