Co-curated with the Korea Institute at Harvard, the monthlong series features some of the most notable and provocative South Korean films of the 1950s and 1960s.
2021/07/23
Three years after Han Hyung-mo s A Female Boss which started as a distinctly feminist film but ended up winking at the patriarchy on an equal level, it was time for another movie, this time from a woman director, to truly embrace women as professionals, although the winking is not completely absent in this case also.
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In a setting that is not exactly usual in Korean films of the era, Jin-sook is studying intently to pass an exam that will qualify her as judge, with her father being rather supportive, but her mother constantly protesting that she should find a man and get married. Jin-sook actually has a beau, Dong-hoon, but when she finds out that he demands from her to withdraw from being a judge if she is to marry him, she breaks up with him, despite the fact that they were childhood sweethearts, to the shock of her mother. Around that time, and during a visit to a temple her father has sent her to study in peace, she catches the eye of president Ch