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Film at The Korea Society
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August 22 - 31, 2008
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When Japan ruled Korea: Movies Set in the Colonial Era
Monthly Screenings, Every Third Thursday
Thursday, July 16 at 6:30 PM - Double Feature
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1946. 51min., Starring Jeon Chang-geun, Yoo
Kye-sun, Korean with English subtitles
1936. 46 min.,
Starring Cho Taek-won, Moon Yae-bong, Korean with English subtitles
Movies will be screened at The Korea Society in midtown Manhattan (950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor. )
Read on for more about past films already screened in this series.
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May 7-28, 2009
Every Thursday in May
In a follow-up on its first presentation of North Korean cinema in 2008, The Korea Society is proud to announce the second installment in its Films from the North series. The four films—Traces of Life, The Tale of Chun Hyang, Wŏlmi Island and The Flower Girl—convey a view of the world that epitomizes the ideological underpinnings of the North Korean state. Within this context, the tales—of duty,self–sacrifice, imperialist cruelty and heroism in battle—are told with genuine feeling and artistry.
Tickets for Traces of Life are available for $10 (members) or $15 (nonmembers).
Tickets for each additional screening are available for $5 (members) or $10 (nonmembers).
A package of tickets for all four screenings is available for $20 (members) or $35 (nonmembers).
Screening every Thursday evening in May (May 7-28), all films will be shown at The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 7
6:00 PM
Series' Opening Reception
 Introduction by Suk-Young Kim, professor of theatre at the University of California Santa Barbara
6:40 PM
Traces of Life
Directed by Jo Kyong-sun
Starring O Mi-ran, Paek Yong-hui and Ri Won-bok
This is the story about a hardworking farmer whose love for her
country helps her transcend her grief over her late husband and raise
her collective farm's rice production to unprecedented levels. It
exemplifies the North Korean "hidden heroes" genre: a type of film made
mostly during the 1980s and 1990s, which features simple country people
bringing life to a barren land.
 Thursday, May 14
6:30 PM
The Tale of Chun Hyang
Directed by Yu Won-jun, Yun Ryong-gyu
Starring Choe Sun-gyu, Kim Yong-hwan and Kim Yong-suk
148 minutes (1980)
The Tale of Chun Hyang is a socialist retelling of Chunhyangjŏn, a Korean folktale about the romance and intrigue that blossom between a kisaeng's daughter and a magistrate's son. While retaining the story's original Confucian ethic, The Tale of Chun Hyang transforms the story's heroine from a cultured court entertainer to a tough, working-class woman.
 Thursday, May 21
6:30 PM
Wŏlmi Island
Directed by Cho Kyong-sun
Starring Cho Kyong-sun, Choe Chang-su, Choe Tae-hyon and Yun Su-gyong
92 minutes (1982)
In this gripping and imaginative war movie a small troop of North
Korean soldiers, armed with just four guns between them, defeats
General Douglas MacArthur and 50,000 American soldiers atInch'on.
 Thursday, May 28
6:30 PM
The Flower Girl
Directed by Choi Ik-gyu and Pak Hak
Starring Hong Yong-hee, Pak Hwa-son, Ryu Hu-nam and Kim Ryong-rin
120 minutes (1972)
Adapted from an anti-imperialist opera from the 1930s, The Flower Girl
is a tragic story of a family cruelly exploited by the Japanese
colonial authorities and a clarion call for the Korean people to fight
for the socialist revolution. The film was so popular when it was
released domestically that Hong Yong–hee's picture was printed on North
Korean currency.
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Yim Soon-rye
Film Director
moderated by
Yunah Hong
Documentary Filmmaker
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
6:00-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30-8:30 PM ♦ Screening and Discussion
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
Women represent only a small minority of the Korean film industry's behind-the-camera talent, yet they make up an impressive number of the industry's top filmmakers. Acclaimed director Yim Soon-rye explores the roles that she and her fellow women directors play in the industry in her documentary Keeping the Vision Alive: Women in Korean Filmmaking. Join us as we screen Keeping the Vision Alive, as well as Yim's short film The "Weight" of Her - a satire of the expectations Korean society places on women - followed by a discussion with award-winning documentary filmmaker Yunah Hong on the role of female filmmakers in Korea today.
Keeping the Vision Alive: Women in Korean Filmmaking
2001, 52 minutes
Keeping the Vision Alive retells the history of the Korean film industry to include the contributions of its female writers, editors, cinematographers, producers and directors. Using archival footage and interviews, including with Park Nam-ok, Korea's first female director, the film relates the sexism and other challenges its subjects struggle to overcome.
The "Weight" of Her
2002, 23 minutes
This short satire surveys the hidden life of a girls' high school and the tremendous social pressure to look good.
" Digital Kwangjang" communication technology provided through a generous grant from 
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 The blockbuster TV Drama from Korea
Monthly Screening Series
Through February 2009 at The Korea Society
In an age when women were treated as if they were invisible, Hwang Jin Yi, the celebrated Korean courtesan-singer-poet of the 16th century, was larger than life. Her beauty, wit and intellect propelled her from obscurity into the company of Korea’s most powerful aristocrats. The defining romance of her life broke across Korea’s rigid class lines and was in turn shattered by tragedy. A symbol of art and individuality, the subject of countless novels, movies and operas, Hwang Jin Yi remains a powerful feminist figure in Korea to this day.
Directed by Kim Cheol-gyu (More Beautiful Than Flowers) and written by Yoon Sun-Ju (The Immortal Lee Soon Shin), the acclaimed KBS TV drama series Hwang Jin Yi retells the tumultuous life story of Korea’s most famous kisaeng (courtesan). Join The Korea Society on Wednesday, November 12—and on the second Wednesday of each month through February—as we screen selected episodes from this lavish and epic series. Top actress Ha Ji-won’s portrayal of Hwang Jin Yi made the series an instant television event when the series first aired in Korea in 2006, causing a nationwide rediscovery of the role kisaeng played in Korean history.
Part Four: Finale Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Having won the acclaim of King and court, Hwang Jin Yi is confidant that she will win the heart of the people by performing her elegant dances in the marketplace. The people turn out to be a much harder audience to impress than the nobility. Hwang Jin Yi wrestles with the question of whether her life's passion is really meaningful if it doesn't resonate with the people among who she was raised.
Read more for the full schedule and photos from the series.
All screenings presented in Korean with English subtitles.
Tickets: $5 for members, $10 for non-members
Order tickets online or by calling The Korea Society at (212) 759-7525, ext. 323.
Co-sponsored by KBS
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January 28-February 1, 2009
The Korea Society and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are proud to present seven films from one of the earliest, and most complex, periods of Korean cinema. Recently discovered in a Chinese warehouse and restored by The Korean Film Archive, the films date from the 1930s and '40s, a period when Korea was dominated by the dictates of Japanese colonialists. These dramas are thus uncomfortably pro-Japanese. Yet simultaneously, their rich aesthetics and formal experimentation reach beyond imperial Japanese ideology to express timeless themes of longing, loss and duty.
The films will be shown in five programs from January 28 through February 1 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at MoMa. All films are in Korean with English subtitles.
Tickets may be purchased from the MoMA box office. Click here for more information. (Museum full admission includes any film for that day.)
Films
 Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941)
Directed by Lee Byeong-Il
Starring Kim Il-Hae, Seo Wol-Young and Kim So-Young
84 minutes
A film adaptation of a traditional Korean tale, Spring in the Korean Peninsula is a backstage romance between a director and an actress that falls into crisis when the director is jailed.
 Straits of Chosun (1943)
Directed by Park Ki-Chae
Starring Nam Seung-Min, Moon Yae-Bong and Kim Shin-Jae
75 minutes
Made at the height of World War II, when Japanese censorship was at its tightest, Straits of Chosun tells the bittersweet story of a husband and wife separated by war.
 Fisherman's Fire (1939)
Directed by Ahn Chul-Yeong
Starring Park Hak, Nah Woong and Park Jung-Kyeong
52 minutes
Following a fisherman's daughter as she moves from her seaside village to bustling Seoul and is quickly beset by shady characters, Fisherman's' Fire is about the things you lose when you lose your home.
 Volunteer (1941)
Directed by Ahn Seok-Young
Starring Choi Woon-Bong, Moon Yae-Bong and Lee Keum-Ryong
55 minutes
A simple Korean farmer's son who aches to leave the countryside behind and fight for Imperial Japan finally gets his chance when colonial authorities enact a draft.
 Angels on the Street (1941)
Directed by Choi In-Kyu
Starring Kim Il-Hae, Moon Yae-Bong and Kim Shin-Jae
73 minutes
Notably realistic for its era in depicting the gritty poverty of contemporary Seoul, Angels on the Street is the story of a man struggling to set up an orphanage for the city's street kids.
 Sweet Dreams (1936)
Directed by Yang Ju-Nam
Starring Cho Taek-Won, Moon Yae-Bong and Yoo Sun-Ok
46 minutes
Korean cinema's first talkie, Sweet Dreams nearly left audiences speechless with its scandalous melodrama about a wife who abandons her family to live with another man.
 Military Train (1938)
Directed by Seo Kwang-Jae
Starring Wang Pyeong and Moon Yae-Bong
66 minutes
Won-jin passes information about a Japanese military train to resistance fighters, putting the life of his best friend, the engineer, in danger in this hybrid of a spy thriller and a pro-Japanese morality play.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Korean Films Made During the Japanese Occupation
Wednesday, January 28
6:00 PM Spring in the Korean Peninsula
8:00 PM Straits of Chosun
Thursday, January 29
8:00 PM Fishermen's Fire and Volunteer
Friday, January 30
6:00 PM Angels on the Street
8:00 PM Sweet Dreams and Military Train
Saturday, January 31
1:00 PM Spring in the Korean Peninsula
3:00 PM Straits of Chosun
5:00 PM Angels on the Street
Sunday, February 1
1:00 PM Fishermen's Fire and Volunteer
3:30 PM Sweet Dreams and Military Train
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 Friday, November 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM
The Bow 활
Director: Kim Ki-duk
2005, 90 minutes
Cast: Jeon Sung-Hwan, Han Yeo-Reum, Seo Ji-Seok
Presented with The Korea Society
Location:
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
With a bow and arrow, a sixty-year old man protects the young girl he
plans to marry when she turns seventeen. She’s content with their life
on a fishing boat until a young man arrives and changes everything.
The Bow illustrates the Bhutanese proverb: “The arrow of divine beings with
absolute wisdom: it cannot be seen when shot, but can be seen when it
hits.”
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