There is another ego, the news reporter, who comes in at the end of the film. This news crewmember is selling bigotry and the twisted Korean cultural value of victim-blaming

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In a historical context, Korean nationalism seems necessary as an effort to control what it could within the context of a complex weave of Korean traditions. It was obvious there

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In my own self-deprecating fashion, I expected the film would not go as well as I had planned. Consequently, I determined that the production would be concept-driven and its development

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I created a world based on my emotional memory of childhood. A memory that has always stuck with me from my past is the presence of dust. It was dusty,

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One of the references I used is the Japanese animation Sailor Moon (1991). I remember it as an animated series on TV when I was a child. I initially dismissed

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I grew up hearing a plethora of nationalistic rhetoric, such as “I should be proud of being a member of this homogeneous society.” I was born three years before president

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I was one of the children who was forced to watch this film. It was about thirty years ago, so I don’t remember most details of the film, except for

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Indeed, it is the path to lethal traps of the oxymoron, hypocrisy, and the paradox. I find that absurdity is part of the basic nature of most political “stories.” To

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We all learn every day. Not only do we educate ourselves for a better life, but we also learn from unintended exposure to information, including propaganda. It is easy to

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In October 1968, 120 members of the North Korean Commandos landed in the Gangwon Province to create a guerilla base in the mountain region of South Korea. They entered and

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