12th(2010)
JUNG Hye-eun
This film looks into the life of the 20¡¯s when things are unhappy and unstable. The main character, a college student about to graduate, is neither happy about her present nor confident about her future. She wonders if she is supposed to live the same way she did as a good student. A miserable youth with no dreams or passion: that may be her. What on earth is wrong? When she looks around, she finds that she has a family who are not happy either.
The 880,000 won Generation. For college students these days, getting a job is more difficult than entering a college. They even feel it¡¯s meaningless to think about what their dreams are or how they want to live. Whenever they fail to get a job, they feel miserable. Interviewing her own family, the director takes a look at the hopeless reality and the meaning of happiness. For the young people who have to struggle for jobs right after they manage to get into a college, would happiness belong to another world? Are You Happy? is a documentary in the first person talking about what to live for and how to live. (PARK Mi-young)
SynopsisThis film looks into the life of the 20¡¯s when things are unhappy and unstable. The main character, a college student about to graduate, is neither happy about her present nor confident about her future. She wonders if she is supposed to live the same way she did as a good student. A miserable youth with no dreams or passion: that may be her. What on earth is wrong? When she looks around, she finds that she has a family who are not happy either.
Program Note
The 880,000 won Generation. For college students these days, getting a job is more difficult than entering a college. They even feel it¡¯s meaningless to think about what their dreams are or how they want to live. Whenever they fail to get a job, they feel miserable. Interviewing her own family, the director takes a look at the hopeless reality and the meaning of happiness. For the young people who have to struggle for jobs right after they manage to get into a college, would happiness belong to another world? Are You Happy? is a documentary in the first person talking about what to live for and how to live. (PARK Mi-young)
JUNG Hye-eunJUNG Hye-eun
Graduated from Korea National University of Arts, School of Film and Multimedia, majoring in Broadcasting. She directed Youth, Crack World Poverty and co-worked Peppermint Candy.