Kim Jong-kwan
A writer has a conversation with one of her characters and reality and imagination begin to blur.
Hakodate retains the traces of the past. The short film "Hello in Hakodate" featured a farewell tour of men and women in the backdrop of Hakodate's calm winter snow scene.
Chang-seok’s marriage failed. He left his wife and came back to South Korea. He is about to publish a novel based on his own experience. He meets various people, including Mi-young, Yoo-jin, Sung-ha and Ju-eun. Upon meeting these people, Chang-seok changes his mind and starts weaving yet another story.
A woman talks to Hyun-o with pleasure, but he has no recollection of meeting her. Leaving her embarrassed, he finds a pebble in the pocket of his old coat, which makes him remember her appearance from behind.
A couple faces each other across a café table talking; he’s apparently returned from Europe and she’s not happy about him asking her to meet after such a long time. The conversation seems likely to end any second, but suddenly his true feelings touch her momentarily and a brief smile crosses her face. The Table follows a conversation between two people in a café.
Ryohei is a writer who drives the characters in his novels into a corner to make a tragic story comes to Seoul for a book launching event. The day he arrives in Seoul, he meets Eunhee, a woman in trouble just like in his novel. A movie that takes a delicate look at the sensitivity of characters.
It was produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Korean Film Archive.
One day at work in a cafe in Seoul, Hyo-seo gets a phone call from a Polish guy in the Netherlands, who is about to start a new life in an attempt to get over his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile Hyun-o, his ex-girlfriend shows up one night and says, You ruined my life. So, this is a pay-off torture. She sticks around Hyun-o all night. Young-soo, who has been hiding his gay identity, loses his virginity with a girl who visits him one day. His long-time lover Woon-cheol is heartbroken by his break-up notice. Hye-young, the vocalist of an indie band gets annoyed by her fellow member Ju-young's petty ideas about love while taking a walk in Namsan park. As she gets upset with his stupid story, she realizes her own foolishness. They start a little gig at the mouth of Namsan. Autumn is passing, and winter is around the corner.
Like someone. Flushed face. Can’t hear anything. Helpless. Sad. Learned how to operate a polaroid camera.
11 days since the breakup with her loving boyfriend. A woman is in tears, suffering from misery. Her life turned into a mess after the shocking breakup. She finally made up her mind to let him go after finding a haggard woman in the mirror. From the Internet, she finds advice on how to mend a broken heart. She decides to calmly follow the suggested methods such as “Have a haircut,” “Bask in the sun,” “Erase the traces of your love.” Then she stumbles upon a matchbox packed with memories of Young-jae. She follows the traces of the matchbox to a cafe in Baek-ma station and tries erasing the remnants of her love.
The song “Bittersweet” expresses the conflict between the sweetness of newly-discovered love and the sting of friendship among a group of three longtime friends by tracing the delicate trails of emotion to the place where they cross. WONWOO and MINGYU helped write the lyrics, which illustrates the dilemma “between love and friendship.”Featuring in the song with her unrivaled vocal timbre is artist Lee Hi, adding a sense of maturity to WONWOO and MINGYU’s masculine vocals. The result is such perfect musical chemistry that this highlight is not to be missed.
