12th(2010)
KWON Soo-min
Hyun-Jung is a student who has a part time job at a convenience store. On her way to work, she helps Mona, an immigrant worker from Sri Lanka. Mona thanks Hyun-Jung, but his friendly gesture is mistaken by a passerby who picks a fight and Hyun-Jung rushes off to work.
Hyun-jung, a part timer at a convenience store, happens to find a migrant worker in trouble and helps him in a bus. Ji-in, another part timer at the convenience store, hurt her leg at work and is arguing with the head office to get insurance coverage. Through the brief moments of people on the way to their jobs and back home, this film shows the reality of the laborers as migrant workers and temporary employees in our society. It is amazing that all the sequences are shot in one cut. So is the fact that this film talks about the problematic labor issues in a calm voice. (BAE Ju-yeon)
Synopsis
Hyun-Jung is a student who has a part time job at a convenience store. On her way to work, she helps Mona, an immigrant worker from Sri Lanka. Mona thanks Hyun-Jung, but his friendly gesture is mistaken by a passerby who picks a fight and Hyun-Jung rushes off to work.
Program Note
Hyun-jung, a part timer at a convenience store, happens to find a migrant worker in trouble and helps him in a bus. Ji-in, another part timer at the convenience store, hurt her leg at work and is arguing with the head office to get insurance coverage. Through the brief moments of people on the way to their jobs and back home, this film shows the reality of the laborers as migrant workers and temporary employees in our society. It is amazing that all the sequences are shot in one cut. So is the fact that this film talks about the problematic labor issues in a calm voice. (BAE Ju-yeon)
KWON Soo-minKWON Soo-min
Kwon Soo-min was born in 1984 in Daegu, Korea. She initially studied Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts, but upon graduation in 2006 she enrolled into the same University to read Film. She graduated in 2009, and An Afternoon¡¯s Odyssey (2009) is her graduation film.