KONG Hyun-sook, SEO Hyo-jung, OK Yu-mi
- Korea
- 2006
- 30min
- DV6mmdigital
- color
- Documentary
SYNOPSIS
The railway crews of KTX (Korean Train Express) chose their jobs because of high wages and the good reputation similar with an air stewardess\'s condition. Unlike those expectations, the bureaucratic evil influence by Korail (Korean Railroad) and Korvans (Honikhoe) create labor conditions and working circumstances that only give humiliation and contempt with the sweating labor of the railway crew. In February 2006, the crews were given notification of dismissal and started a struggle to stay together. The directors, Kong Hyun-sook, Seo Hyo-jung and Ok Yu-mi, are all members of the KTX crew participated in the struggle and the documentary gives possibility as counter-media reveals the truth outside of the main stream public journalism and makes us feel more intimate with them and to their plight. (KIM Sunah)
PROGRAM NOTE
The railway crews of KTX (Korean Train Express) chose their jobs because of high wages and the good reputation similar with an air stewardess\'s condition. Unlike those expectations, the bureaucratic evil influence by Korail (Korean Railroad) and Korvans (Honikhoe) create labor conditions and working circumstances that only give humiliation and contempt with the sweating labor of the railway crew. In February 2006, the crews were given notification of dismissal and started a struggle to stay together. The directors, Kong Hyun-sook, Seo Hyo-jung and Ok Yu-mi, are all members of the KTX crew participated in the struggle and the documentary gives possibility as counter-media reveals the truth outside of the main stream public journalism and makes us feel more intimate with them and to their plight. (KIM Sunah)