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"Ji-ho is a promising pianist, studying and playing abroad for years. But one night she had a stage fright and never recovers. In despair, Ji-ho comes home and meets her old classmate Sung-ryong. Once a very bright boy, Sung-ryong had an accident and now he is in late 20s with the mind of a six year old. He is very forgetful, but he has never forgotten his first love Ji-ho. Other half of Sung-ryong's dumb mind is occupied with his only family ? younger sister Jee-in. To take care of her, Sung-ryong sells toasts in front of Jee-in's school. But Jee-in is embarrassed of her idiotic brother and ignores him. And Sang-soo is Sung-ryong's old friend who understands Sung-ryong's innocent mind. But he inevitably falls to the world of gangsters. Ji-ho is still in her slump, Jee-in falls sick and Sang-soo gets involved in a bloody dispute. But all of their agonies are miraculously saved by Sung-ryong in a way nobody has forseen...."--Korean movie database (KMDb).

"A special man's ordinary life through CCTV. Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except for his special talent: to see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling 'monster eyes', he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time passes by, and now grown-up Jang-bu works at the CCTV control center which is the best job for him. When he sees people's life through the camera, he feels he's sharing their ordinary life that he's never had.This new job opens his heart to the world and Jang-bu starts to make some friends out of the control center. With his dear friends he receives a sense of himself and finally decides to make a proposition to a girl that he loved for a long time from CCTV." -- Korean Movie Database (KMDb).

Tells not only the power of love letters but also the chance to really become one with a beloved person.

Hyŏn-su was once a popular idol star among teens and worshiped liked a god. Although he's in his mid-thirties now, he's still a sought-after celebrity and the host of a popular radio show. One day, a very young single mom named Chŏng-nam sends her stories to his radio show. Her stories about her longing to meet her father whom she's never seen before grips the nation and catapults the ratings to make it the most popular program. But to his surprise, Hyŏn-su later confronts none other than Chŏng-nam and her 7 year-old boy, Ki-dong. They invade Hyŏn-su's home and his radio station, claiming that Hyŏn-su is her father.

Scandal makers: "Nam Hyeon-su, who was once an pop idol, is now not that popular, but is still doing well as a radio DJ. He is enjoying the perfect single life. One day, Hwang Jeong-nam, who has sent her stories to his radio program, goes to see him and insists that she is his daughter from his first time having sex, when he was in the ninth grade. Moreover, she has a son, Gi-dong, whom she gave birth to at the age of seventeen. Hyeon-su does not accept Jeong-nam and Gi-dong at first, but eventually he adjusts to living with them. However, Hyeon-su's career is in crisis as he becomes involved in a rumor that he is dating Jeong-nam. Hyeon-su blames this scandal on Jeong-nam with harsh words, which makes her leave him. Hyeon-su, left alone, soon regrets his actions and conveys his true feelings for her on his radio program. His message makes Jeong-nam return to him, but she loses Gi-dong for the moment. After a mess of a time looking for Gi-dong, they finally come together and accept themselves as a family."--Container.
"Modernization has been an important subject for Korea in the last century. Modernization was exchangeable with economic development and industrialization, and people took part on the road to achieve the so-called "Miracle on the Han River." Consequently, Korea was accredited as one of the rare countries that accomplished rapid economic growth. The shadow, however, was cast deeply along with the fast track of the development, and Korean society is now facing all problems great and small. It is meaningful to look back at the process of Korean modernization and to view various aspects of the modern represented in the films. These endeavors bring us beyond the mere appreciation of the past in a retrospective fashion and provide us a chance to make a rendezvous of the past with the present and that of the present with the past. The films selected from each period reveal the problems, values, and subconsciousness of the time, and they function as referential frameworks for each other, which bring you the joy of new discoveries."--Commentary book.