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[gentle classical music playing]

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[woman] That film,

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Looking for Paradise, is a short.

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A five-minute film
that was made by a student.

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Back then, Director Bong
was not the Director Bong he is now.

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[man] When did you watch that film?

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I'd say it was either in the beginning
or middle of Yellow Door's lifespan.

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It wasn't during the latter years.

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One day, Director Bong, who, back then,
everyone just called Joon Ho,

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said he got some money
by working as a tutor.

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I think he had done that
for a month or two.

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Anyway, he bought a camera with that money

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and made a film
using his living room as the background.

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It was about a caterpillar
looking for paradise.

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He made this tiny, little caterpillar.

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It was stop-motion animation,

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so he said
he had to move it little by little.

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[gentle orchestral music continues]

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[woman] In the ending,
the caterpillar fights a stuffed monkey

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in the living room.

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And then it heads to paradise.

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It was incredible.
I was in shock. I was so amazed by it.

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He didn't seem like the Joon Ho I knew.

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I think the film was five minutes long.

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I think.

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[man] Twenty-three minutes.

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And you got
the protagonist and villain mixed up.

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I did? I thought the caterpillar was
the main character?

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[man] That was the gorilla!

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PROTAGONIST

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I thought it was the caterpillar,
but it was the gorilla.

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I see.

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I found this box
which I haven't seen for about 20 years.

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I used to keep
a lot of things in here back then.

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And there's something important in here.

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[man] 8 mm?

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This is footage from the 8 mm
film workshop we had at Yellow Door.

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[woman] Oh! Wow!

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-I have everything here. All these.
-[woman] Oh yeah!

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I got all kinds of stuff here.

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I don't even remember
what we did back then.

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We filmed all kinds of nonsense.

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I hope this footage helps sort out
our collective Rashomon effect.

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I've got everything here.

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-[man] Do you still have the gorilla?
-[woman] Yeah, that gorilla.

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I have it, but…

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[man laughs]

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But let's just say that it's gone.

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It's embarrassing. Where is that thing?

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[slow jazz music playing]

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[gorilla hooting]

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YELLOW DOOR: '90S LO-FI FILM CLUB

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[pensive music playing]

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[man 2] "I thought of my secret first film
which I've never mentioned anywhere else."

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"Before I made my self-proclaimed
first short film, White Collar,

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I once made a short animated film
called Looking for Paradise."

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JU SUNG-CHUL, AUTHOR OF THE DEBUT
INTERVIEWS WITH RENOWNED KOREAN DIRECTORS

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[man 2] I had an interview
with Director Bong Joon Ho in The Debut.

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He was acting like a spy sharing a secret

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when he said,
"Actually, I once made this other film."

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He kept looking around
as he shared it with me.

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I thought, "I should leave it out.
I probably can't use this for my book."

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But that story turned out
to be really interesting.

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"There were about
20 or so audience members

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at Yellow Door's Christmas party."

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"My face was completely flushed
as I had my very first movie premiere."

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"In any case, the only ones
who watched that film on this earth

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were those who were there that day."

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[pensive classical music playing]

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[music stops, device beeps]

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Can you hear me, Jong-tae?

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-Hey. Hi! [laughs]
-Can you see me?

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I can see you.

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[man 3] You been busy?

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I guess.

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[man 3] Your film's releasing
in a few days, right?

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Yes. I've been busier because
the production was small. [laughs]

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I had to make some things happen.

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[man 3] It looks like
Se-bum dyed his hair.

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[both laughing]

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[man 3] It's been so long, Se-bum.

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Se-bum, did you dye your hair?
Your hair is totally--

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I have to. My hair is
completely gray unless I dye it.

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He looks like a minister of something now.

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He looks like he could be the Minister of
Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation.

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-[man 4] Oh.
-Hi, Byung-hoon.

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-Hey.
-Hey!

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[Jong-tae laughs]

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[Se-bum] Is that Byung-hoon? Wow!

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[man 3] My gosh, Byung-hoon.
Can you see me?

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-[Jong-tae] Can Byung-hoon see us?
-[Se-bum] He can.

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[playful music]

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-[man 3] Can you hear us?
-Yes, I can.

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[Se-bum] Okay.

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Is it after twelve o'clock there,
Byung-hoon?

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[Byung-hoon] It's around 11:00 now.

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[Se-bum] 11:00 p.m.?

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-Yes.
-[man 3] Oh my gosh.

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[Se-bum] Wow.

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Your Korean is kind of awkward now.

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[all laughing]

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[Byung-hoon] Come on!

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[man 3] Should we speak in English,
then, Byung-hoon?

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-Gosh. Sure.
-Can you speak English?

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-Hi! Oh my!
-Min Hyang!

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-[woman] Eun-sim!
-[Min Hyang] Eun-sim! Eun-sim!

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Eun-sim!

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[shutter clicking]

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-[woman 2] Who is this?
-[Min Hyang] When was this?

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[woman 2] Look who this is.

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-[man 5] Why…
-[man 3] The focus.

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[man 5] I couldn't accept this now,
but I used to!

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-[man 1] I mean, this was a film club!
-[group laughing]

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-[man 3] They're all out of focus.
-[woman laughs]

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[Eun-sim] This is hilarious!
Who took these?

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-[woman 2] Let's find the culprit.
-[man 3] It wasn't me. I'm in the picture.

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[man 1] Me too.

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-[man 5] Wait. I'm not in it.
-[group laughing]

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[shutter clicking]

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[man 3] Is that me?

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Why'd we take so many pictures of gum?

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[man 5] It was a focus test.

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[shutter clicking]

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[man 3] We didn't know
the basic mechanisms of a camera,

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so we got together for that workshop
to familiarize ourselves with the basics…

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[man 5] That's right.

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[man 3] …like exposure, aperture,
shutter speed, focus, and other concepts.

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It's probably just a bunch
of random, boring pictures

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that lack any artistic value.

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[Jong-tae] Is that Ms. Kim Hye-ja's house?

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[man 3] Yes, that would be
Ms. Kim's house.

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When we looked through
our office's front window,

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we could see Ms. Kim's garden.

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[Jong-tae] With the gates and everything.

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[man 3] We took so many pictures
in front of that stone wall

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because it was so pretty.

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[man] Hmm.

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[man 3] Dae-yup is doing a very sexy pose.

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[playful jazz music playing]

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If I'd known there was a club over there,
I would've looked that way a little more.

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KIM HYE-JA, LEAD ACTRESS OF MOTHER

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I thought, "They could probably see
my entire house from upstairs!"

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[laughs]

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You never know
what life will bring you, right?

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This is the most heartwarming memory
I have of Joon Ho.

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After Memories of Murder premiered,
it must've been around 9:00 p.m.

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After 9:00, actually.

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-He called me around 10:00.
-Yes.

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You called me and said,
"Hey, Jong-tae. Guess where I am?"

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-"I'm in front of the Gyeongseo Building."
-Right.

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[Jong-tae] You must've been feeling great
about the film's success

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and started to reminisce
about your more difficult times.

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[Joon Ho] The Gyeongseo Building.

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Right here. It used to be a regular house
but was turned into this.

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It's been 30 years.

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This was the route.
The way to Yellow Door.

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[man 5] Yes!

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It didn't feel like we came to Yellow Door
to do anything in particular.

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It felt more like coming for a picnic
or something, right?

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But why was it the Gyeongseo Building?

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Did Jong-tae already have an office there?

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He took a leave of absence

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from his graduate program
at Dongguk University.

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He got the office
to start a business with his friends.

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It was supposed to be
a modeling agency or something.

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[playful music]

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After the first day
of my graduate program,

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I was disappointed.
I thought, "This is graduate school?"

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CHOI JONG-TAE
ESTABLISHED YELLOW DOOR

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WHILE ON BREAK
FROM THEATER AND FILM STUDIES

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We didn't learn much.

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I remember that we had
a 16 mm camera at school.

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It would've been great
if we were taught how to use it.

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But we only ever got to look at it.

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-[man 1] That's it?
-[Jong-tae] Yes.

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Around that time,

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I met Lee Dong-hoon.

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LEE DONG-HOON, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A SOCIOLOGY MAJOR

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I worked a part-time job at a bookstore
at Yonsei University called Today's Books.

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Back then, we didn't have
cell phones or pagers.

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Today's Books had a bulletin board
with all kinds of flyers.

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"We're here. Join us here."

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I wanted to meet someone
in the film industry,

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and I was introduced
to Director Choi Jong-tae,

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who was on leave from his film studies
at Dongguk University.

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They said, "Help him with his studies."
So I said, "Okay, sure. Send him my way."

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So that's how we met.

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It was great, but if it happened today,

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I would say,
"Why would I teach a stranger about film?"

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But back then, the culture of having
university clubs hadn't been lost yet.

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So it actually felt quite natural.

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If nobody had approached me back then
to study film

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and asked me for my help,

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I think my life would've been
very different.

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Well, it might've changed for the better.

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Actually,
it might've been much better! [laughs]

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I wasn't looking
to make anything in particular.

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I started to poke around a little bit.

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[Jong-tae] Dong-hoon asked me if he could
bring along an upperclassman he knew.

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I told him that was fine.

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[Dong-hoon] I thought,
"I can't suffer alone."

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That's why I dragged
Director Bong into this.

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I've loved movies ever since
my elementary and middle school days,

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and I've always wanted to be a director.

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I don't know why.

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BONG JOON HO, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A SOCIOLOGY MAJOR

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Maybe because all my family did
was watch TV.

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We didn't travel. We didn't play sports.
All we ever did was watch TV.

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Some films were shocking
because I didn't have any context.

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One of them was The Wages of Fear.

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THE WAGES OF FEAR
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT

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And The Bicycle Thieves too.
I lost my bike when I was a kid…

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THE BICYCLE THIEVES
VITTORIO DE SICA, 1948

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…so I was completely immersed.

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I didn't know anything about
Vittorio De Sica or neorealism back then,

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so it came as a strong, primitive shock.

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For the first time,

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I had a place where I could discuss films
as much as I wanted.

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I could study them
and watch them on repeat.

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I didn't major
in theater and film studies,

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and I never worked on a film set.

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But for the first time,
I got to do something involving film.

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I sat Bong Joon Ho and Lee Dong-hoon down.

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I first had them read
Understanding Movies.

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That was when books about film
first started coming out.

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[Dong-hoon] Right.

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Today, we have whole sections
of books about film at bookstores.

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[Dong-hoon] We didn't have those.

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[Joon Ho] But back then,
the idea of publishing books about film

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was so unfamiliar.

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There were theoretical books
like Understanding Movies.

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And A History of Film, but only those two.
There were no other books about film.

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This was around
when convenience stores started?

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-Yes.
-[Dong-hoon] So back then I…

237
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Can you cut out what he said
about convenience stores?

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-[Dong-hoon] Yes.
-[laughs]

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[Joon Ho] It sounds like…

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We didn't have those back then?

241
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No.

242
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Right. We used to

243
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have coffee at cafés like Doutor.

244
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[Dong-hoon] Yes. It's not around anymore.

245
00:13:38,692 --> 00:13:42,446
I had to do something for them,
but there was nothing I could do.

246
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Back then, Joon Ho was working
as a part-time manager at a study room.

247
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That meant he had
a lot of time on his hands.

248
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I told him to transcribe A History of Film
in his free time

249
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instead of sitting around.

250
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But I never transcribed A History of Film.

251
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I think Director Bong probably transcribed
A History of Film.

252
00:14:03,467 --> 00:14:06,262
I didn't do it,
but I think he probably did.

253
00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:10,099
This is what I meant
by the Rashomon effect.

254
00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:13,227
How could I have transcribed
that big of a book?

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RASHOMON
AKIRA KUROSAWA, 1950

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[man in Japanese]
I don't know. I have no idea.

257
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I've lost my faith in mankind.

258
00:14:21,110 --> 00:14:22,278
You don't remember?

259
00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:25,739
I read it. You told me to read it,
so I read it diligently,

260
00:14:25,823 --> 00:14:26,907
but I never transcribed it.

261
00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:29,702
I remember you showing me your notebook.

262
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Really?

263
00:14:31,078 --> 00:14:32,580
I know you did it.

264
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-I remember that notebook.
-[Joon Ho] One sec.

265
00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:36,000
[Jong-tae] How else could I know?

266
00:14:36,083 --> 00:14:38,085
[intriguing music playing]

267
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This is it, right?

268
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-[Jong-tae] Yes.
-A History of Film by Jack C. Ellis.

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You did do it. I remember that notebook.

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-You probably quit after a few pages.
-Yes. [laughs]

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Like the to-infinitive part
of Sungmoon Comprehensive English.

272
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[Jong-tae] Yes, like the to-infinitive.

273
00:14:59,189 --> 00:15:00,399
Sounds about right.

274
00:15:00,482 --> 00:15:04,111
All Koreans know
all about the to-infinitive. [laughs]

275
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That was the beginning of it.

276
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Director Bong Joon Ho,
Director Choi Jong-tae, and me. And then…

277
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[light string music playing]

278
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[woman 1] I was lying around
at home one day

279
00:15:19,293 --> 00:15:22,338
when suddenly I just had
this overwhelming urge to study film.

280
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:25,341
LIM HOON-A, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A YONSEI HISTORY GRADUATE

281
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I couldn't sleep from that day on.

282
00:15:27,259 --> 00:15:29,970
-Hoon-a joined early on.
-[Dong-hoon] You're right.

283
00:15:30,554 --> 00:15:32,681
I had a friend
in the psychology department

284
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who loved music like I did.

285
00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:38,854
She said there was a guy named
Bong Joon Ho in sociology who liked film,

286
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so I should give him a call.

287
00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:45,069
I thought, "Bong Joon Ho?
What a unique name."

288
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"I should memorize it as 'bonjour.'"
[chuckles]

289
00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:50,616
I called him, and he told me
to come to this place

290
00:15:50,699 --> 00:15:52,534
in front of Hongik University.

291
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:57,414
Jong-tae, you, me, and Hoon-a
held the first film seminar together.

292
00:15:57,498 --> 00:15:58,415
Remember?

293
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-We each brought a film of our choice.
-[Dong-hoon] Right.

294
00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:06,131
Jong-tae brought Landscape in the Mist
by Theodōros Angelopoulos.

295
00:16:06,215 --> 00:16:07,383
I brought François Truffaut.

296
00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:08,342
[Dong-hoon] That one.

297
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It starred Truffaut himself as a director.
It was called Day for Night.

298
00:16:11,887 --> 00:16:15,474
-You?
-I didn't study films back then. [laughs]

299
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-So we watched four different films.
-[Dong-hoon] I don't remember. Right. Yes.

300
00:16:19,019 --> 00:16:21,772
We took turns
watching the films we brought.

301
00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:25,526
-Then we just talked about them.
-[Dong-hoon] A discussion. Right.

302
00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:28,737
[gentle guitar music playing]

303
00:16:31,573 --> 00:16:34,660
[Min Hyang] One day,
I was walking down Baekyang-ro,

304
00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,788
and I ran into this friend of mine.

305
00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:42,042
She'd been walking
on the opposite side of the street.

306
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:47,006
We began talking about films.
Back then, I was obsessed. I told her…

307
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:50,175
KIM MIN HYANG, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A YONSEI ENGLISH GRADUATE

308
00:16:50,259 --> 00:16:53,053
…I had some interest in film.
She said, "Really? I'm in this film group,

309
00:16:53,137 --> 00:16:56,724
and we're going to watch a Turkish film
called The Way. Do you want to come?"

310
00:16:57,725 --> 00:16:59,768
[Min Hyang on tape]
So I said, "Sure, let's do it."

311
00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:03,772
That's how I got involved in Yellow Door.
Her name was Lim Hoon-a.

312
00:17:04,356 --> 00:17:06,650
Hmm. Yes.

313
00:17:07,151 --> 00:17:08,318
Well, now,

314
00:17:09,278 --> 00:17:10,362
I'm remembering.

315
00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:13,365
I actually knew her before then.

316
00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:17,036
The College of Liberal Arts put on a play.

317
00:17:18,162 --> 00:17:20,831
It was called Jesus of Gold Crown,

318
00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:24,626
and this cool student
played the role of Jesus.

319
00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,463
It was very impressive,

320
00:17:27,546 --> 00:17:30,507
and the actor who played that role
was Min Hyang.

321
00:17:34,887 --> 00:17:37,723
Back then, there wasn't
any type of organization.

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00:17:37,806 --> 00:17:40,809
CHANG EUN-SIM, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A YONSEI ASTROMETEOROLOGY GRADUATE

323
00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:43,437
We joined the club because we loved films
and wanted to study them.

324
00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:44,646
That's what I remember.

325
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:46,815
I remember this story about Eun-sim.

326
00:17:47,524 --> 00:17:50,194
One day, she brought in a male bust.

327
00:17:50,861 --> 00:17:55,741
It's usually used by art students.
And she told us all to start sketching it.

328
00:17:55,824 --> 00:17:59,244
It was so random
that she suddenly wanted us to draw.

329
00:17:59,328 --> 00:18:01,413
I had no idea why she brought it.

330
00:18:02,372 --> 00:18:05,793
But a few people began drawing,
so the club had

331
00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:07,544
many quirky people.

332
00:18:08,712 --> 00:18:11,173
It was a tiny, little space we were in.

333
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:14,760
We had a table in the middle
which fit around seven people.

334
00:18:16,136 --> 00:18:20,182
We just chatted. We'd watch a film
and talk about what we thought.

335
00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:24,019
We'd share and discuss things
we'd heard elsewhere.

336
00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:25,354
That was the level we were at.

337
00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:28,690
[Dong-hoon]
Jong-tae didn't have any plans,

338
00:18:28,774 --> 00:18:31,527
which we loved because that meant
there were no constraints.

339
00:18:32,027 --> 00:18:33,403
How can I put this?

340
00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:35,739
Everyone was an outcast.

341
00:18:37,866 --> 00:18:41,870
[Joon Ho on film] Yes. The band.
Jong-tae and five children.

342
00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:47,668
[Dong-hoon] People who were like liquid
came together and had dreams like gas.

343
00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:52,005
Why, in the early '90s,

344
00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:54,341
did we get together like madmen
to study film?

345
00:18:54,424 --> 00:18:58,345
During that time, everyone was
very active in social movements,

346
00:18:58,428 --> 00:18:59,638
reaching their limits.

347
00:18:59,721 --> 00:19:04,059
Perestroika and glasnost happened.
The Soviet Union collapsed.

348
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,563
You're making
such a macroscopic analysis of this.

349
00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:10,399
-[Dong-hoon] But then--
-But there were a lot of people like us.

350
00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:14,069
A lot of clubs got together to study film,
but I don't know why.

351
00:19:15,654 --> 00:19:16,488
I'm not sure.

352
00:19:16,572 --> 00:19:19,950
But for me, I started studying film
so I could find myself.

353
00:19:20,033 --> 00:19:21,827
-Find yourself?
-[Dong-hoon] Yes.

354
00:19:23,078 --> 00:19:25,497
I wanted to find something that I liked.

355
00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:30,210
When we were students, we supported
bringing down the dictatorship

356
00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:33,213
and opposed the revision
of the Constitution.

357
00:19:33,297 --> 00:19:37,301
I think everybody, including myself,
felt empty once that was over,

358
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,344
even though I didn't do anything notable.

359
00:19:40,804 --> 00:19:42,890
So we didn't know what to do next.

360
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,395
We had no idea what to do
with all of this energy we had.

361
00:19:50,105 --> 00:19:52,399
Our movement was already over,

362
00:19:52,482 --> 00:19:55,152
so we came together
like a cluster of dust.

363
00:19:56,695 --> 00:20:01,158
Or, to put it nicely,
we came together like a ripening grape.

364
00:20:03,285 --> 00:20:04,912
In the early to mid-2000s,

365
00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:08,332
I'd be asked at overseas film festivals
how Korean films suddenly--

366
00:20:08,415 --> 00:20:09,791
[Dong-hoon] Broke through?

367
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:13,670
We had films suddenly becoming popular,
which drew attention of film festivals.

368
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:16,423
They didn't know
where these directors were coming from.

369
00:20:16,506 --> 00:20:18,592
"What on earth happened?"

370
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:21,887
-So I'd bring up Yellow Door.
-[Dong-hoon laughs]

371
00:20:21,970 --> 00:20:23,722
[Joon Ho] Take me, for example.

372
00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:26,892
I'm a first-generation cinephile.

373
00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:31,480
Our generation was probably
the first generation of cinephiles

374
00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:34,274
who began to carefully study films
and eventually

375
00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:37,611
became directors in the industry.

376
00:20:38,362 --> 00:20:41,823
When I said that stuff, it made it easier
for them to write their articles.

377
00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:43,492
[both laugh]

378
00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:46,703
So I said,
"Oh, there was this generation, and…"

379
00:20:47,829 --> 00:20:50,916
Today, the committee opposing
the state ban

380
00:20:50,999 --> 00:20:55,003
of the screening
of The Night Before Strike, a 16 mm film…

381
00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:59,383
[Joon Ho] Jangsangot Hawks
was a superstar back then.

382
00:21:00,592 --> 00:21:04,221
They had a lot of fans
who anticipated their films every year.

383
00:21:05,514 --> 00:21:07,933
Film Studio Youth was also good.

384
00:21:10,227 --> 00:21:13,939
After Cinematheque 1895
changed its name to SA/sé,

385
00:21:14,022 --> 00:21:17,943
it became renowned as
the longest running private cinematheque.

386
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:21,196
It was like all these cinephiles
who'd been hiding

387
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,074
suddenly starting spilling out
into the streets for some reason.

388
00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:26,702
THE NIGHT BEFORE STRIKE
JANGSANGOT HAWKS, 1990

389
00:21:26,785 --> 00:21:29,329
HOMO VIDEOCUS
BYUN HYUK, E J-YONG, 1990

390
00:21:30,664 --> 00:21:34,751
I think it had something to do
with the craziness of the '90s.

391
00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:37,838
[dramatic music playing]

392
00:21:43,176 --> 00:21:44,636
Here's what I think.

393
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,556
The government must've put something
in the water supply.

394
00:21:48,348 --> 00:21:51,184
It felt like a project
that turned everyone into cinephiles.

395
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:54,896
[intriguing music playing]

396
00:21:59,818 --> 00:22:01,611
JANGSANGOT HAWKS

397
00:22:02,738 --> 00:22:04,323
CINEMATHEQUE 1895

398
00:22:04,406 --> 00:22:06,158
INDEPENDENT FILM ASSOCIATION

399
00:22:06,241 --> 00:22:08,160
[Joon Ho] Compared to these groups…

400
00:22:08,243 --> 00:22:10,996
YELLOW DOOR, BARITEAU,
FILM STUDIO REALITY, PURN PRODUCTION

401
00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:12,164
…Yellow Door was mysterious.

402
00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:15,334
-Jangsangot Hawks was the Premier League.
-[man 1] Yes.

403
00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:20,047
Film Studio Youth, Jung Ji-woo's Youth,
was like the Bundesliga.

404
00:22:20,130 --> 00:22:23,258
-[man 1] We were amateurs.
-[Joon Ho] And we were an amateur club.

405
00:22:24,301 --> 00:22:27,137
I had to pay tuition
for my fourth semester.

406
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,306
It felt like a waste.

407
00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:34,978
I realized that I could buy
a lot of great materials

408
00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:38,065
with the money that I would've spent
on that tuition.

409
00:22:39,191 --> 00:22:43,111
I decided to get myself
in some serious trouble, so…

410
00:22:44,154 --> 00:22:46,323
HONGDAE

411
00:22:46,406 --> 00:22:47,949
So I founded the film institute.

412
00:22:51,453 --> 00:22:53,330
[Jong-tae] My family had no idea.

413
00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:06,051
"YELLOW DOOR" FILM INSTITUTE, UNIT 202
SECOND FLOOR, GYEONGSEO BUILDING

414
00:23:06,134 --> 00:23:07,803
Back then, the Yellow Door Institute

415
00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:10,305
was on the second floor
of a building in Seogyo-dong.

416
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,391
KIM DAE-YUP, YELLOW DOOR MEMBER

417
00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:13,767
It was…

418
00:23:15,143 --> 00:23:17,396
a rectangular building like this.

419
00:23:19,022 --> 00:23:20,649
A hallway in the middle,

420
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,821
and the Yellow Door Institute
was right here. This was the door.

421
00:23:25,904 --> 00:23:27,906
[mellow music playing]

422
00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:31,243
[Min Hyang] When you opened the door,

423
00:23:33,161 --> 00:23:35,789
you'd see a round table to your left.

424
00:23:36,456 --> 00:23:38,583
That's where Joon Ho usually studied.

425
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:42,963
Near the front…

426
00:23:43,046 --> 00:23:44,214
LATEST-MODEL JOG SHUTTLE VTR

427
00:23:44,297 --> 00:23:48,385
…there was a tiny TV
we'd often use to watch music videos.

428
00:23:48,468 --> 00:23:49,678
A HUGE 25-INCH TV

429
00:23:50,762 --> 00:23:53,056
[Joon Ho] We painted
all the furniture yellow.

430
00:23:54,307 --> 00:23:55,934
Didn't Dae-yup paint with us?

431
00:23:56,017 --> 00:23:58,353
I remember you and Jong-tae
brought the paint.

432
00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:03,066
The furniture wasn't that color at first,
but you two said, "Let's go all yellow."

433
00:24:03,692 --> 00:24:05,152
That's what you did, right?

434
00:24:10,031 --> 00:24:12,868
Back then, I really liked yellow
for some reason.

435
00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:14,327
Specifically bright yellow.

436
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:16,621
I thought it was a beautiful color.

437
00:24:18,373 --> 00:24:20,375
From what I recall,
I just had some yellow paint.

438
00:24:20,459 --> 00:24:24,504
I'd done some construction work elsewhere
and had some paint left over.

439
00:24:25,505 --> 00:24:27,007
The paint just happened to be yellow.

440
00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:31,219
There was no point of buying other paint,
so we ended up painting the place yellow.

441
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:32,971
It didn't mean anything, actually.

442
00:24:34,264 --> 00:24:37,225
-It wasn't originally called Yellow Door.
-[Dong-hoon] No.

443
00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:39,603
-It was The Film Institute.
-[Dong-hoon] The Film Institute.

444
00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:42,939
Then we started studying
semiology and stuff.

445
00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:45,192
-Then it ended up as Yellow Door, right?
-Yes.

446
00:24:45,984 --> 00:24:49,070
We started talking about
things like signified and signifier.

447
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,114
[laughs] This is really embarrassing.

448
00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:52,866
We put meaning into things.

449
00:24:52,949 --> 00:24:54,534
[laughs]

450
00:24:54,618 --> 00:24:56,786
-We packaged it that way.
-Yes. Yes.

451
00:24:57,704 --> 00:25:01,333
[Joon Ho] Our knowledge was limited
about film, but we eagerly talked.

452
00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,504
Like, the signified and signifier
don't match.

453
00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:07,255
There's an actual yellow door.

454
00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:09,049
-[all laugh]
-[Dong-hoon] Yes.

455
00:25:09,132 --> 00:25:10,634
KIM YOON-A, YELLOW DOOR MEMBER

456
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:13,303
Maybe that's why the critiquing department
was called S-S.

457
00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:15,514
-Signifiant, signifié.
-[Joon Ho] I think that's right.

458
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:16,723
SA/SÉ

459
00:25:16,806 --> 00:25:18,600
[man 1] The same goes for SA/sé.

460
00:25:18,683 --> 00:25:20,477
-[Joon Ho] Yes.
-[Yoon-a] Signifiant, signifié.

461
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,523
There was a famous cinematheque
in Daehak-ro, and they used that name too.

462
00:25:25,482 --> 00:25:28,109
We brought up signifiant and signifié
with everything.

463
00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:29,402
Right. [chuckles]

464
00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:35,283
I mean, the words signifiant and signifié
were so unfamiliar to us at the time.

465
00:25:36,034 --> 00:25:38,954
I guess we were just proud of ourselves
for learning that concept.

466
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,873
Why were we so obsessed with semiology?

467
00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:44,793
Semiology, postmodernism…

468
00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:46,711
-[Dong-hoon] Postmodernism.
-Post-structuralism.

469
00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:48,088
-Roland Barthes.
-[Yoon-a] Right.

470
00:25:48,171 --> 00:25:50,423
Those were kind of fads back then.

471
00:25:52,592 --> 00:25:55,845
We barely understood anything,
but we still held seminars.

472
00:25:55,929 --> 00:25:57,305
That's how we worked.

473
00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:01,268
I'm not sure
if people still do this these days,

474
00:26:01,351 --> 00:26:04,312
but at our university,
these photocopy places

475
00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:08,483
had a lot of renowned,
original book copies on display.

476
00:26:10,819 --> 00:26:12,946
A lot of them were collections too.

477
00:26:13,029 --> 00:26:15,282
Jong-tae would say,
"We have to get these."

478
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:18,201
-We'd go, and--
-No, it wasn't like that.

479
00:26:18,285 --> 00:26:21,288
I just took everything.
I don't know what they said. [laughs]

480
00:26:22,872 --> 00:26:24,791
I bought entire collections.

481
00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:29,504
We picked out a few of them
and did some things. Like…

482
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:32,215
We studied Dudley Andrew's book together.

483
00:26:32,299 --> 00:26:33,258
So…

484
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:37,012
-Dudley Andrew.
-[Se-bum] Dudley Andrew.

485
00:26:37,095 --> 00:26:38,054
He was a tough one.

486
00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:40,932
Translating that book
gave me a headache. [chuckles]

487
00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:45,437
Min Hyang was good at English.
She studied English.

488
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,690
I had no idea though. [laughs]

489
00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:51,693
[Dong-hoon] Other members
were just so-so at English.

490
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,778
BAN SE-BUM
JOINED YELLOW DOOR

491
00:26:53,862 --> 00:26:56,156
[Jong-tae] How many years
had you been in a doctoral program

492
00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:57,365
when you were with us?

493
00:26:58,491 --> 00:27:00,535
I started right before my program.

494
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,203
It was right before?

495
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:04,789
-[Se-bum] Yes, it was.
-But we always called you Dr. Ban.

496
00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:06,041
Yes, Dr. Ban.

497
00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:10,003
You thought I'd be a doctor
before I even started. [laughs]

498
00:27:10,587 --> 00:27:13,715
We gave you a weird nickname. Philology.

499
00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:16,384
EXEGETICS: A STUDY OF DIFFICULT WORDS
AND PHRASES IN CONFUCIAN TEXTS

500
00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:17,969
We did that.

501
00:27:19,095 --> 00:27:21,139
I remember when we'd have seminars,

502
00:27:21,222 --> 00:27:23,725
we'd each have a few pages we translated.

503
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:24,934
If anything was wrong,

504
00:27:25,018 --> 00:27:28,605
you'd point it out and say,
"Hey, this isn't the right translation."

505
00:27:29,105 --> 00:27:30,065
I was called that

506
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:32,192
because I looked at the meaning
behind every word

507
00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:33,985
and suggested how to translate them.

508
00:27:34,069 --> 00:27:35,111
[chuckles]

509
00:27:35,862 --> 00:27:38,740
Theoretical seminars seem great
in the moment,

510
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,660
but you never remember anything
when they're done.

511
00:27:43,244 --> 00:27:44,996
You were already working in the industry

512
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,374
for Director Kim Sung-su's team
by then, right?

513
00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:50,585
KIM SEOK-WOO, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS AN EASTERN PHILOSOPHY MAJOR

514
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:53,546
A lot of us were working on short films
which were being shot on 16 mm.

515
00:27:54,589 --> 00:27:57,967
Dae-yup, do you remember Beat?
Jung Woo-sung's Beat?

516
00:27:58,051 --> 00:27:59,177
[Yoon-a] I do.

517
00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:01,805
Seok-woo was the assistant director
on that.

518
00:28:01,888 --> 00:28:03,306
Ah, I see.

519
00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:05,767
[Joon Ho] Back then,
Director Kim Sung-su's team

520
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,018
was already renowned.

521
00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:09,145
That team was really tough.

522
00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:14,984
The people who lived through
being on that team became very… [chuckles]

523
00:28:15,902 --> 00:28:19,406
Among our group, Seok-woo was the first
to get real-world experience.

524
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:22,409
It must've been interesting for you.

525
00:28:23,910 --> 00:28:26,371
It'd be mean to say it must've been funny.

526
00:28:26,454 --> 00:28:30,041
But you came to Yellow Door
after working on actual sets.

527
00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:35,588
We were all excited to have seminars
about books in their original languages.

528
00:28:35,672 --> 00:28:37,048
We were very academic.

529
00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:40,051
But this must've looked
ridiculous to you, right?

530
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:43,430
We had weird seminars with English books,

531
00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:45,598
underlining them with Se-bum.

532
00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:46,850
What was that like?

533
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,978
At first, it seemed like you were all

534
00:28:51,312 --> 00:28:52,731
a bunch of amateurs.

535
00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:53,940
Amateurs.

536
00:28:54,858 --> 00:28:56,568
I felt pretty arrogant.

537
00:28:56,651 --> 00:28:58,403
[laughs]

538
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:02,240
I'm sorry I was like that.

539
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:04,868
No, I didn't mean that.

540
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:08,538
I was dying to make a short film,

541
00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:11,750
but I didn't know anything,
and I hadn't ever done anything.

542
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:16,254
So I thought, "If I get on Seok-woo's
good side and learn from him,

543
00:29:16,337 --> 00:29:18,590
I might be able to start something."

544
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:23,303
Yoon-a, were you already
in graduate school at that point?

545
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:27,474
I started in the second semester
of my graduate program.

546
00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:30,351
Weren't you about to study abroad?

547
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,395
I was married at that point.

548
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:34,814
Really?

549
00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:36,357
[both laugh]

550
00:29:38,193 --> 00:29:39,944
I actually had just gotten married,

551
00:29:40,028 --> 00:29:42,322
so I couldn't
participate in Yellow Door as much.

552
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:44,949
I was still a good member
but couldn't do any more.

553
00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:47,368
-So you--
-[Yoon-a] My life was too hectic.

554
00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:48,828
You were like Dae-yup.

555
00:29:49,537 --> 00:29:52,457
-You were in the grown-up group.
-[Yoon-a] Yes, afterwards.

556
00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:53,833
If you put us in groups,

557
00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:57,128
we had the grown-up group,
and the kids, the student group.

558
00:29:58,129 --> 00:30:01,633
Whenever I talked with Yoon-a,
I never spoke to her informally.

559
00:30:01,716 --> 00:30:04,427
It wasn't just about
getting closer as friends.

560
00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:08,848
I knew she was a married woman,
so I thought I'd treat her as a grown-up.

561
00:30:08,932 --> 00:30:09,933
Come on!

562
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:11,518
[all laugh]

563
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:14,229
-[Seok-woo] What is that?
-[man 1] Please speak.

564
00:30:14,312 --> 00:30:16,648
Before we continue, can I ask a question?

565
00:30:17,232 --> 00:30:19,859
Does anyone else remember
us ordering food a lot?

566
00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:20,777
[all] Hmm.

567
00:30:21,402 --> 00:30:25,907
Yes, and we started calling the place
Yellow Door whenever we'd order Chinese.

568
00:30:27,784 --> 00:30:29,327
Whenever we'd order something, we'd say,

569
00:30:29,410 --> 00:30:32,372
"Come to the unit
with the yellow door on the second floor."

570
00:30:32,455 --> 00:30:33,748
That's how we became Yellow Door.

571
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,208
[Joon Ho laughing]

572
00:30:35,291 --> 00:30:36,751
That's why we were Yellow Door.

573
00:30:38,127 --> 00:30:40,713
Yes. When someone wanted to visit us,
we'd say,

574
00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:43,216
"You'll see a yellow door.
That's our door."

575
00:30:43,299 --> 00:30:46,469
Then Jong-tae said,
"Hey, we should just be the Yellow Door,"

576
00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:48,721
and that's what the name means.

577
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,436
[Jong-tae] When we talked about films,
people would give examples,

578
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,647
but I'd never seen these films.

579
00:30:58,147 --> 00:31:00,275
I didn't know
what they were talking about.

580
00:31:01,317 --> 00:31:05,655
Take The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,
an example of a German expressionist film.

581
00:31:05,738 --> 00:31:09,450
We only had a screenshot of the film
in a book because we couldn't watch it.

582
00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,120
We imagined the film while studying it.

583
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,415
When we wanted to watch
The Arrival of a Train,

584
00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:17,750
we had to make copies onto videotapes.

585
00:31:17,834 --> 00:31:20,295
But these days with YouTube,
you can find everything.

586
00:31:20,378 --> 00:31:23,298
THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN
THE LUMIÉRE BROTHERS, 1895

587
00:31:24,507 --> 00:31:27,802
[Jong-tae] So what now?
Our priority was watching films,

588
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:31,180
so our mission was to obtain films
in order to watch them.

589
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:35,643
Whenever we heard that someone had a film,
we'd go get it and copy it.

590
00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,813
We'd borrow it and copy it.

591
00:31:40,273 --> 00:31:42,609
That was the institute's biggest job,

592
00:31:42,692 --> 00:31:46,404
and Director Bong…
was put in charge of that.

593
00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:49,908
Back in the day, there weren't many places

594
00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:52,535
that you could go
to borrow these films from.

595
00:31:52,619 --> 00:31:54,245
But Director Bong had a knack

596
00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:57,415
for finding these so-called art films
for Yellow Door.

597
00:31:58,249 --> 00:32:00,835
Copies couldn't be made
digitally back then,

598
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:05,340
so we had to watch the film from the start
until the videotape was completely copied.

599
00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:06,841
We had no other choice.

600
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:09,552
If we made two copies,
we had to watch it twice.

601
00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:12,972
Then the video would be copied
a third and fourth time.

602
00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:15,516
If you made copies
of the original repeatedly,

603
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,977
you'd start seeing static everywhere.

604
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:20,146
And when you copied one from the US,

605
00:32:20,229 --> 00:32:23,066
you'd always see the FBI warning
at the start.

606
00:32:23,149 --> 00:32:25,276
WHOLESOME VIDEOS
ARE LIKE GREAT ENVIRONMENTS

607
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,695
[Yoon-a] Korean videos would show
tigers and smallpox

608
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,614
to discourage us
from making illegal copies.

609
00:32:29,697 --> 00:32:34,202
[man in Korean] A single video
may change a person's future.

610
00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:37,455
But the only way to watch them

611
00:32:37,538 --> 00:32:39,165
was to make copies.

612
00:32:39,415 --> 00:32:43,962
THIS FILM IS DEDICATED
TO MONOGRAM PICTURES

613
00:32:44,712 --> 00:32:47,256
We'd write the title
on the back of the tape,

614
00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,758
usually on a sticker.

615
00:32:48,841 --> 00:32:51,761
But it didn't seem cool
to see it in Korean.

616
00:32:53,429 --> 00:32:56,182
BREATHLESS
JEAN-LUC GODARD, 1960

617
00:32:56,265 --> 00:32:59,519
[Joon Ho] So I'd write the titles
of Godard's films in French.

618
00:32:59,602 --> 00:33:04,107
I could've just written the Korean title,
Do As You Like. That would've been fine.

619
00:33:04,190 --> 00:33:06,901
But I wrote it in French.
I knew the spelling.

620
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:10,321
A, B-O-U-T, D-E, S-O-U-F-F-L-E.

621
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:13,408
Is it pronounced À bout de souffle?
I still don't know.

622
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:15,118
People who speak French would.

623
00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:19,372
When you print something out,
you can see where everything is.

624
00:33:19,455 --> 00:33:21,708
I'd put the printed titles
on something bright

625
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:23,251
and put stickers on them.

626
00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:27,463
I put those in the printer
so the titles would be perfectly placed.

627
00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:29,215
These went on the tapes.

628
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:31,718
I put such petty skills to use.

629
00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:35,054
If you looked at the videotapes
from Yellow Door,

630
00:33:35,138 --> 00:33:37,056
there'd be a few handwritten titles.

631
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:38,349
But eventually,

632
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:41,060
they all had printed-out labels.

633
00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:46,065
Later on, I think we were more obsessed
with copying all of these films

634
00:33:46,149 --> 00:33:48,818
and adding more to our collection.

635
00:33:51,446 --> 00:33:53,489
Obsession motivates enthusiasts.

636
00:33:53,573 --> 00:33:55,366
VIDEO LIBRARY LIST
MANAGED BY BONG (SINCE 1992)

637
00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:57,285
[Joon Ho] The behaviors look odd
on the outside.

638
00:33:58,244 --> 00:34:02,540
But for the enthusiast,
it's natural to become very passionate.

639
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:06,419
I became obsessed with getting more films.

640
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:09,756
[Hoon-a] Today, we use spreadsheets,

641
00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:12,800
but back then,
we had to write everything down by hand.

642
00:34:14,510 --> 00:34:15,553
Actually,

643
00:34:16,596 --> 00:34:19,766
I think I learned
how to use a mouse from Joon Ho.

644
00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:24,812
He'd tell me, "This looks like a mouse,
so it's called a mouse."

645
00:34:25,521 --> 00:34:27,482
-[Joon Ho] 1992.
-[Dong-hoon] 1992.

646
00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:29,317
[Joon Ho] "Video Library List."

647
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,236
-"Managed by Bong."
-[both laugh]

648
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,822
-[Dong-hoon] We had this.
-[Joon Ho] What are these stars for?

649
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:37,533
-[Dong-hoon] I wonder.
-[Joon Ho] Ones we couldn't lose?

650
00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:39,827
-[Joon Ho laughs]
-Maybe. Something like that.

651
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:44,082
[Joon Ho] Battleship Potemkin.
Before the Revolution. We got them all.

652
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,834
Maybe the starred ones are the ones…

653
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:50,129
-We wouldn't rent out? [laughs]
-Yeah, something like that.

654
00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:54,050
The Conversation by Coppola.
Remember watching this together?

655
00:34:54,133 --> 00:34:54,967
Yes, I do.

656
00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:57,136
We bought a few tapes too.

657
00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,138
Like in Hwanghak-dong.

658
00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:00,681
At wholesale stores.

659
00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:04,185
Yes, there were people in the street
selling cheap videos from carts.

660
00:35:05,394 --> 00:35:08,106
-The tapes there were 2,500 won each.
-[Dong-hoon] 2,500 won.

661
00:35:08,189 --> 00:35:10,316
-It was like a treasure hunt.
-[Dong-hoon] Yes.

662
00:35:10,399 --> 00:35:13,402
Because amongst
piles of weird, lousy films,

663
00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:18,157
I'd find films by directors like
Kim Ki-young, or Dušan Makavejev,

664
00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:20,159
or something by Abel Ferrara.

665
00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:23,287
-Andrzej Wajda.
-King of New York. Andrzej Wajda.

666
00:35:24,580 --> 00:35:27,875
These films were hidden,
and they had oddly translated titles.

667
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:30,461
-[Dong-hoon] Exactly.
-It took a sixth sense to find them.

668
00:35:31,712 --> 00:35:32,964
Director Kim Hong-joon

669
00:35:33,047 --> 00:35:36,926
was often the person who I'd get
a list of new films, info, or tips from.

670
00:35:37,009 --> 00:35:39,345
-[Dong-hoon] I see.
-[Joon Ho] A first-generation cinephile.

671
00:35:39,428 --> 00:35:41,681
Now the director
of the Korean Film Archive.

672
00:35:41,764 --> 00:35:44,767
KIM HONG-JOON, FILM DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR OF KOREAN FILM ARCHIVE

673
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:46,853
[Joon Ho] And he published a book
with a long title.

674
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:49,147
[Dong-hoon]
Two or Three Things I Know About Film.

675
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,357
[Joon Ho] It did pretty well
in the early '90s.

676
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,693
A lot of people like us bought that book.

677
00:35:54,944 --> 00:35:57,071
[Hong-joon] If it was the '60s or '70s,

678
00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,658
when it was impossible to watch
any films mentioned in the book,

679
00:36:00,741 --> 00:36:02,660
the book would've been useless.

680
00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:06,289
And if films were as easily accessible
as they are now,

681
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:08,791
the information
wouldn't have been as useful.

682
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:12,545
Back then, a limited number of films
played in theaters.

683
00:36:12,628 --> 00:36:16,716
When the videotape market began to rise,
countless films became widely available,

684
00:36:16,799 --> 00:36:20,011
but there was no way to tell
which were good and which were bad.

685
00:36:20,094 --> 00:36:22,680
[moving classical music playing]

686
00:36:24,932 --> 00:36:26,184
[Joon Ho] He'd say things like,

687
00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:30,146
"You might not know that this director's
work was published under this title,

688
00:36:30,229 --> 00:36:32,273
but the title is very absurd."

689
00:36:33,107 --> 00:36:34,942
It's called "Love and Something."

690
00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:38,070
So when you'd use that information
from the book,

691
00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:41,616
you could find it
when you were in Hwanghak-dong.

692
00:36:42,742 --> 00:36:44,994
Director Kim Hong-joon used a pseudonym

693
00:36:45,077 --> 00:36:48,456
because the author listed on the book
wasn't named Kim Hong-joon.

694
00:36:48,539 --> 00:36:50,082
-[man 1] Gu Hoe-yeong.
-[Dong-hoon] Yes.

695
00:36:50,166 --> 00:36:53,085
[man 1] An acronym for "a cinephile
who looks back on the '90s."

696
00:36:54,378 --> 00:36:56,631
It was the first time
my article about films

697
00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:59,008
was going to be widely distributed.

698
00:36:59,091 --> 00:37:02,094
I got a little scared
and didn't want to use my real name,

699
00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:05,139
so I made up a pseudonym, Gu Hoe-yeong.

700
00:37:05,723 --> 00:37:07,183
Later, people analyzed it

701
00:37:07,266 --> 00:37:10,853
and said it was an acronym for
"a cinephile who looks back on the '90s."

702
00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:13,105
That sounded cool, but it's not true.

703
00:37:13,981 --> 00:37:16,234
I was just trying
to come up with a pseudonym,

704
00:37:16,317 --> 00:37:18,861
so I looked through the newspaper
I had next to me.

705
00:37:18,945 --> 00:37:22,156
In the obituaries,
I saw the name Gu Yeong-hoe,

706
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,451
so I just switched the two
and went with Gu Hoe-yeong.

707
00:37:26,661 --> 00:37:27,912
Don't even get me started

708
00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:31,249
on the cultural status of films
in our society back then.

709
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:36,712
Having any kind of job
in the film industry

710
00:37:36,796 --> 00:37:39,674
was seen as a disgrace to one's family.

711
00:37:42,468 --> 00:37:44,220
How'd we have all these?

712
00:37:44,303 --> 00:37:45,680
Let's count them.

713
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,098
[Dong-hoon] Right.

714
00:37:47,682 --> 00:37:49,308
[Joon Ho] You're good with numbers.

715
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:52,478
-[Dong-hoon] Yes, it looks like…
-[laughs]

716
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:54,355
Three or four hundred?

717
00:37:54,438 --> 00:37:57,608
-About 427 films.
-Not as many as I thought.

718
00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:01,988
-How many lines per page?
-There's about 30.

719
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:04,782
There's 26 letters in the alphabet.

720
00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:07,535
I'm the type of person
who needs to count these.

721
00:38:07,618 --> 00:38:09,161
-Four, five…
-[Dong-hoon] So about 20.

722
00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:10,538
[Joon Ho] Eight.

723
00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:15,626
Nine, ten, eleven. Half.

724
00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:18,337
-[Dong-hoon] I think--
-Seventeen. So 17 times three…

725
00:38:18,421 --> 00:38:20,256
-That's a total of 510.
-[Joon Ho] 510.

726
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:23,009
-We had about 500 tapes.
-[Dong-hoon] 500.

727
00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:24,510
Only those recorded.

728
00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:26,721
-I'm sure we stopped after a while.
-[Dong-hoon] We did.

729
00:38:27,471 --> 00:38:29,557
[man 1] When I first visited Yellow Door,

730
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,518
you were drawing this table
on a huge piece of paper.

731
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:34,437
Table?

732
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,398
[man 1] Yes, on a big piece of paper.
You were good at those things.

733
00:38:37,481 --> 00:38:39,483
Was it a list of people with late fees?

734
00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:41,944
I have
an obsessive-compulsive personality,

735
00:38:42,028 --> 00:38:43,529
so I was the perfect man for the job.

736
00:38:43,612 --> 00:38:47,283
I was like the kid in class
in charge of all the little details.

737
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,995
-Like the hall monitor all year long.
-[man 1] Something like that.

738
00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:53,706
Instead of monitoring who was misbehaving,

739
00:38:53,789 --> 00:38:55,875
I was tracking who didn't return tapes.

740
00:38:56,876 --> 00:38:59,837
Someone told me, "It can take a year
to build the collection

741
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,798
and less than a month
for it to disappear if it's mismanaged."

742
00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:06,510
I began having stricter regulations
for missing videos.

743
00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:10,056
I'd go up to people
with a scary face and ask,

744
00:39:10,139 --> 00:39:12,683
"Why won't you return
the Godard film you borrowed?"

745
00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:14,393
[Joon Ho laughs]

746
00:39:14,477 --> 00:39:16,228
[disaster music playing on film]

747
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:20,858
[Joon Ho] "You need to return it.
It's been two weeks."

748
00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:22,860
[man in French] You really are despicable.

749
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:27,698
[Joon Ho] I was just trying
to protect the collection.

750
00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:30,117
[in French]
What do you mean by "despicable"?

751
00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,203
[piano playing on film]

752
00:39:38,918 --> 00:39:40,211
[Eun-sim] What's that?

753
00:39:40,294 --> 00:39:44,131
DIRECTING DEPT. "SHOCK"
THE 1ST TEXT ANALYSIS SEMINAR

754
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,842
[Eun-sim] Oh my gosh. [laughs]

755
00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:53,641
This is from when each of us
would watch a film and analyze it.

756
00:39:56,352 --> 00:39:58,771
"Scene analysis for different situations."

757
00:39:59,772 --> 00:40:01,774
"Apply the analysis framework below

758
00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:04,568
according to genre,
scriptwriter, and movement."

759
00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:08,823
As if we could actually do
any of this. [laughs]

760
00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:12,993
We didn't know what we were
talking about, but we still did this.

761
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:15,496
It says, "Analyze the film by scene."

762
00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:16,580
[tape whirring]

763
00:40:16,664 --> 00:40:18,624
[high-pitched voice]
"Analyze the film by scene."

764
00:40:18,707 --> 00:40:20,000
[tape whirring]

765
00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:21,919
[man in Korean] Jog shuttle VTR.

766
00:40:22,002 --> 00:40:23,129
[referee] Safe! Out!

767
00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:24,463
-Safe!
-[woman] It's out!

768
00:40:24,547 --> 00:40:26,590
[man] Let's check with the jog shuttle.

769
00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:28,801
The jog shuttle catches every action.

770
00:40:30,928 --> 00:40:33,305
-[in English] The jog shuttle came out.
-[Dong-hoon] Yes, yes.

771
00:40:33,389 --> 00:40:34,723
These days,

772
00:40:36,142 --> 00:40:39,520
we're able to use an app on an iPhone
to edit videos.

773
00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:40,938
[Dong-hoon] Yes.

774
00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:44,400
You can even add visual effects,
so this might sound primitive.

775
00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:47,319
But when the jog shuttle came out,
we were thrilled.

776
00:40:47,403 --> 00:40:48,279
[Dong-hoon] Right.

777
00:40:49,196 --> 00:40:51,407
We'd make the film
go forwards and backwards

778
00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:53,784
and analyze scenes frame by frame.

779
00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:58,038
We'd study the editing
to see how double actions were made.

780
00:40:59,331 --> 00:41:02,418
The cinephiles just before us,
like Mr. Jung Sung-il,

781
00:41:02,501 --> 00:41:04,378
Director Kim Hong-joon and others,

782
00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:08,424
they went to the Goethe-Institut
and Institut Français

783
00:41:08,507 --> 00:41:10,801
just to watch the films.
They couldn't rewind them.

784
00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:11,802
[Dong-hoon] Right.

785
00:41:11,886 --> 00:41:16,891
But we analyzed films for the first time
using the jog shuttle.

786
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:22,480
It went like this.
We decided to do our first text analysis.

787
00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:26,233
I was in charge of Raging Bull
and Citizen Kane.

788
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:30,529
I watched all these films,
like City Lights and Sacrifice.

789
00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:34,617
I probably did analyze them.

790
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,660
-Do you have mine?
-[man 1] Yes, we do.

791
00:41:36,744 --> 00:41:38,204
-Really?
-[man 1] Yes.

792
00:41:38,287 --> 00:41:39,622
And we published this.

793
00:41:39,705 --> 00:41:43,876
YELLOW DOOR, 1ST ISSUE
SPRING 1993

794
00:41:43,959 --> 00:41:46,128
I didn't put this together by myself.

795
00:41:46,212 --> 00:41:49,173
We worked as group,
and each department played a part.

796
00:41:49,256 --> 00:41:50,883
It wasn't much, but we published it.

797
00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:56,764
The first issue was very important,
but we didn't manage to keep it going.

798
00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:00,351
BONG JOON HO, YELLOW DOOR MEMBER
DIRECTING DEPARTMENT

799
00:42:00,434 --> 00:42:01,936
I tried so hard to find this.

800
00:42:02,853 --> 00:42:05,439
-Where'd you get it?
-[man 1] From Kim Yoon-a.

801
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,191
-Yoon-a had it. I knew it.
-[man 1] Yes.

802
00:42:07,274 --> 00:42:09,777
There's an analysis
of Coppola's The Godfather.

803
00:42:09,860 --> 00:42:12,029
-[man 1] Yes.
-I drew these.

804
00:42:13,948 --> 00:42:18,577
"The Godfather was a textbook film
created with a rigid format."

805
00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:23,582
I said all this nonsense
as if I knew anything.

806
00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:29,380
-This was a part of our seminar, right?
-[man 1] Yes.

807
00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:32,841
[Joon Ho] I worked very hard on this one.

808
00:42:35,761 --> 00:42:37,304
[clicking]

809
00:42:42,518 --> 00:42:45,437
THE GODFATHER
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, 1972

810
00:43:01,161 --> 00:43:02,121
[man 1] Right.

811
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:04,873
[man 2 yells]

812
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:09,878
[whirring]

813
00:43:14,758 --> 00:43:17,136
[audio distorts]

814
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:18,887
[Joon Ho] The suspense.

815
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:23,767
[Joon Ho] This is
what you just mentioned, Director Lee.

816
00:43:23,851 --> 00:43:25,603
-The control of information.
-[Lee] Yes.

817
00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:28,689
[Joon Ho] The information here is
only available to the audience.

818
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:31,942
-That's how suspense is created.
-[Lee] Suspense is created.

819
00:43:32,026 --> 00:43:37,448
VIEW, SUSPENSE, CONTROL OF INFORMATION

820
00:43:41,327 --> 00:43:42,411
[man 2 yells]

821
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:43,829
[audio distorts]

822
00:43:50,252 --> 00:43:52,963
I should've shown this
to Director Coppola when we met,

823
00:43:53,047 --> 00:43:54,632
but I only told him about it.

824
00:43:59,803 --> 00:44:02,056
[Joon Ho] There's a film festival
held in Lyon.

825
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:05,392
Every year, the main event is

826
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:10,147
inviting big names in the film industry
and paying tribute to them.

827
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:13,484
And that year,
Director Coppola was the main guest.

828
00:44:13,567 --> 00:44:15,235
[applause]

829
00:44:16,070 --> 00:44:18,030
[Joon Ho] They were giving him
an achievement award,

830
00:44:18,113 --> 00:44:20,157
and I was chosen as the presenter.

831
00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:25,329
I talked about this on stage.
"Back in my university days,

832
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,498
I studied your films."

833
00:44:27,581 --> 00:44:31,335
"I analyzed this scene in The Godfather
in such and such way."

834
00:44:31,418 --> 00:44:32,670
Something like that.

835
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,256
"Why was the camera there?"

836
00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:38,967
"Why did the shot change here?"

837
00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:41,595
Why did this scene follow that one?

838
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:43,972
[woman translating into French]

839
00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:46,433
Why does this actor
look that way at this moment?

840
00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:48,811
[translating into French]

841
00:44:49,978 --> 00:44:51,605
I asked myself these questions

842
00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:55,317
and drew every scene
from The Godfather in my analysis.

843
00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:57,653
[woman translating into French]

844
00:44:57,736 --> 00:45:00,531
And I still feel restless and anxious.

845
00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:05,786
It hit me differently
when I met him in person on stage

846
00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:07,996
and shared those stories with him.

847
00:45:09,665 --> 00:45:12,000
It felt marvelous and surreal.

848
00:45:13,752 --> 00:45:15,045
Even to this day,

849
00:45:15,129 --> 00:45:19,091
I still watch films and keep track
of the number of cuts and shots.

850
00:45:19,591 --> 00:45:22,886
Within those shots,
I look at the lighting, mise-en-scéne,

851
00:45:22,970 --> 00:45:25,013
and all the little details.

852
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:30,686
At first it was great,
but eventually I began wondering,

853
00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:35,274
"Do I have to study this language
and analyze everything for every film?"

854
00:45:35,357 --> 00:45:36,608
"This is so boring."

855
00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:38,444
That's what happened to me.

856
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,740
I realized I couldn't analyze
every aspect of a film

857
00:45:42,823 --> 00:45:46,118
because a film's power comes from
its ability to capture you

858
00:45:46,201 --> 00:45:48,162
before you even know it.

859
00:45:49,288 --> 00:45:51,665
When we watched those films together,

860
00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:55,794
it was nice knowing that I had friends
who also wanted to watch them.

861
00:45:56,378 --> 00:45:57,755
Yellow Door was that place.

862
00:45:57,838 --> 00:46:01,383
The more we chatted, the more we learned
about things we didn't know.

863
00:46:02,217 --> 00:46:03,886
I just remembered this.

864
00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:10,017
There's an actor who lights a candle
and then covers it as he walks,

865
00:46:10,517 --> 00:46:13,228
making sure it doesn't go out.

866
00:46:14,271 --> 00:46:17,191
NOSTALGHIA
ANDREI TARKOVSKY, 1983

867
00:46:19,818 --> 00:46:21,820
[water splashes]

868
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:35,501
[Yoon-a] It was a Tarkovsky film.
Probably too boring for me now.

869
00:46:36,502 --> 00:46:38,587
I don't know why I was so into it.

870
00:46:38,670 --> 00:46:40,547
When I saw it, I thought,

871
00:46:41,089 --> 00:46:43,884
"Films are art.
I can dedicate my life to this."

872
00:46:43,967 --> 00:46:46,011
[man breathing heavily]

873
00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:48,806
[groans softly]

874
00:46:51,225 --> 00:46:53,811
[Dae-yup] That scene was
over five minutes long.

875
00:46:56,021 --> 00:46:58,148
"Man, is this the world of film?"

876
00:46:58,232 --> 00:47:00,734
Back then, that's what I thought.

877
00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:02,778
[sentimental orchestral music playing]

878
00:47:02,861 --> 00:47:05,614
RAGING BULL
MARTIN SCORSESE, 1980

879
00:47:05,697 --> 00:47:08,534
[Hoon-a] Joon Ho really adored
Martin Scorsese's films.

880
00:47:11,411 --> 00:47:13,664
[Joon Ho]
The original title was Raging Bull,

881
00:47:13,747 --> 00:47:17,626
but the VHS company called it
Fist of Fury.

882
00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:22,256
There were lots of problems
with the Korean subtitles in that film,

883
00:47:22,339 --> 00:47:25,843
but despite that, the boxing sequence
and everything was just…

884
00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:28,428
it was overwhelming.

885
00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:30,973
I remember everyone went crazy for it.

886
00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:35,602
Director Lee, you talked a lot about…
the editing and the camerawork.

887
00:47:36,270 --> 00:47:39,147
[Lee] I was in my early days
of studying films.

888
00:47:40,274 --> 00:47:42,109
I thought scenes with complicated cuts

889
00:47:42,192 --> 00:47:45,279
and complicated camerawork
were good scenes.

890
00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:50,534
But that scene is very simple.

891
00:47:50,617 --> 00:47:51,493
[both laugh]

892
00:47:51,577 --> 00:47:52,411
You fuck my wife?

893
00:47:52,494 --> 00:47:55,080
-You "beep" my wife.
-[both laugh]

894
00:47:55,163 --> 00:47:56,248
You fuck my wife?

895
00:47:56,331 --> 00:47:58,417
-What?
-You fuck my wife?

896
00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,337
[Joon Ho] It's simple, chilling,
and funny,

897
00:48:02,421 --> 00:48:04,172
yet you feel very sad after that scene.

898
00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:06,133
How could you ask me? I'm your brother.

899
00:48:06,216 --> 00:48:07,551
You ask me that?

900
00:48:08,802 --> 00:48:12,264
You see Joe Pesci's face,
and then a few more cuts,

901
00:48:12,347 --> 00:48:14,057
then the camera pans.

902
00:48:15,017 --> 00:48:18,979
De Niro seems very scary
as he walks up the stairs.

903
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:23,859
And then after he goes up,
you see this crazy, wild violence.

904
00:48:25,485 --> 00:48:27,988
-It's frightening.
-[Lee] Something else you'd mentioned…

905
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,576
-That scene begins with a broken TV.
-[Joon Ho] De Niro is fixing it, yes.

906
00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:36,788
[Lee] I remember you said
that sets the tone of the scene,

907
00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:39,708
and I thought,
"Oh, that was another element of it."

908
00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:42,085
-We said that?
-[Lee] You said that.

909
00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:43,170
[laughs]

910
00:48:43,253 --> 00:48:46,173
I don't remember a thing,
not even what happened yesterday.

911
00:48:47,132 --> 00:48:50,052
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
FRÉDÉRIC BACK, 1987

912
00:48:51,136 --> 00:48:55,557
There was an animated film
called The Man Who Planted Trees.

913
00:48:56,350 --> 00:49:00,103
I guess I must've seemed
completely out of it one day because

914
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:02,564
Hoon-a said,

915
00:49:03,732 --> 00:49:07,527
"Jong-tae, when life is hard
and you feel devastated,

916
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:10,989
you should watch films like these."

917
00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:13,408
"It'll help you."

918
00:49:14,242 --> 00:49:15,535
It was wonderful.

919
00:49:16,620 --> 00:49:18,580
LIM HOON-A, YELLOW DOOR MEMBER
DIRECTING DEPARTMENT

920
00:49:18,664 --> 00:49:20,499
I guess I was being impolite.

921
00:49:20,582 --> 00:49:23,835
But I remember it as Jong-tae telling me
to watch that movie.

922
00:49:24,336 --> 00:49:27,047
[gentle classical music playing]

923
00:49:27,673 --> 00:49:30,425
[Hoon-a] I thought he introduced me
to a great film.

924
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:35,305
And that film is wonderful.
I watched it many times since.

925
00:49:37,182 --> 00:49:38,517
It's my favorite film.

926
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,186
My eyes are getting teary
because I'm getting old!

927
00:49:42,229 --> 00:49:43,855
[Lee] You two have different memories.

928
00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:46,233
The Rashomon effect.

929
00:49:47,109 --> 00:49:49,111
[rhythmic jazz music playing]

930
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:54,366
-[Dong-hoon] There's the yellow door.
-[Joon Ho] That's cute.

931
00:49:54,449 --> 00:49:55,450
[Dong-hoon] You're right.

932
00:49:56,284 --> 00:49:58,870
-[Joon Ho] I'm directing.
-[Dong-hoon] We're doing something.

933
00:49:58,954 --> 00:50:00,998
[Joon Ho] She's repeating
her wooden performance.

934
00:50:01,081 --> 00:50:01,957
[Dong-hoon] Yes!

935
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,459
These are 8 mm.

936
00:50:06,128 --> 00:50:07,963
These were in my box
that's been sitting at home

937
00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:10,757
for the last 30 years.
You can see everything.

938
00:50:11,758 --> 00:50:13,927
Back then, it wasn't easy
to find a good camera.

939
00:50:14,011 --> 00:50:15,137
[Dong-hoon] Right.

940
00:50:15,220 --> 00:50:17,139
[Joon Ho] Especially for videos.

941
00:50:17,222 --> 00:50:19,182
-And film was expensive.
-[Dong-hoon] Yes.

942
00:50:19,266 --> 00:50:22,019
-[Joon Ho] We shot with shaky hands.
-[Dong-hoon] That's right.

943
00:50:22,102 --> 00:50:25,397
[Joon Ho] It was frightening to see
24 frames rolling per second.

944
00:50:28,608 --> 00:50:31,611
[ethereal music playing]

945
00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:35,949
[Joon Ho] It was around

946
00:50:37,784 --> 00:50:39,244
1992.

947
00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:41,747
I saved money for it.

948
00:50:46,043 --> 00:50:48,045
He used the money
from his job at the study room.

949
00:50:48,128 --> 00:50:50,797
LEE DONG-HOON
MEMBER, YELLOW DOOR - DIRECTING DEPARTMENT

950
00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:52,507
I think he was paid 300,000 won per month.

951
00:50:54,509 --> 00:50:55,761
[Se-bum] He asked, "Se-bum,

952
00:50:55,844 --> 00:50:58,096
do you think I can get a decent camera
with this money?"

953
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:00,265
BAN SE-BUM
MEMBER, YELLOW DOOR - CRITIQUE DEPARTMENT

954
00:51:00,348 --> 00:51:03,018
We could find lots of electronics
in Sewoon Arcade and Cheonggyecheon.

955
00:51:04,269 --> 00:51:08,523
[Joon Ho] The Hitachi 8200 Super VHS
was expensive at the time.

956
00:51:09,024 --> 00:51:10,567
I bought it,

957
00:51:10,650 --> 00:51:12,944
and the next day,
I brought it to Yellow Door.

958
00:51:13,028 --> 00:51:14,112
[uplifting music playing]

959
00:51:14,196 --> 00:51:16,823
I held it like this during the seminar.

960
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,076
It was a huge camera.

961
00:51:20,952 --> 00:51:23,955
I'd flip the page with the camera
in my arms for no reason.

962
00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:25,040
I'd pat the camera.

963
00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:28,210
[Jong-tae] How can I put this?

964
00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:32,089
There was a kind of tension
after he got his first camera.

965
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:34,174
[uplifting music continues]

966
00:51:42,849 --> 00:51:45,519
[classical music playing]

967
00:51:49,648 --> 00:51:52,609
[Joon Ho] I did all kinds
of part-time jobs with that camera,

968
00:51:52,692 --> 00:51:53,985
like shooting weddings.

969
00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:55,946
I got all kinds of jobs.

970
00:51:56,029 --> 00:51:57,823
I shot 60th birthdays,

971
00:51:57,906 --> 00:51:59,991
first birthdays, weddings, and more.

972
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:12,170
[soft jazz music playing]

973
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:13,672
[Joon Ho] Everyone's here, yes.

974
00:52:13,755 --> 00:52:15,799
[Jong-tae] We look great in this.
It's nice.

975
00:52:16,716 --> 00:52:19,177
[Joon Ho] Byung-hoon and Seok-woo
are next to each other.

976
00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:20,387
[laughs]

977
00:52:20,470 --> 00:52:23,014
There's a rumor Byung-hoon
left the industry because of me.

978
00:52:23,098 --> 00:52:25,183
LEE BYUNG-HOON, JOINED YELLOW DOOR
AS A SOCIOLOGY MAJOR

979
00:52:25,267 --> 00:52:26,560
[Joon Ho] Seok-woo feels sorry.

980
00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:30,897
Because he got mad at you so much
on the set of his short film.

981
00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:31,898
[all laugh]

982
00:52:34,276 --> 00:52:37,154
-[Seok-woo] Joon Ho is hiding back there.
-[Eun-sim] What's that?

983
00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:38,071
[Joon Ho] Yes.

984
00:52:39,447 --> 00:52:41,533
[Seok-woo] I have no idea
when this was taken.

985
00:52:41,616 --> 00:52:44,661
[Jong-tae] I don't know either.
How did we end up taking this?

986
00:52:44,744 --> 00:52:46,663
Was it just the spur-of-the-moment?

987
00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:50,292
[Seok-woo] We're all dressed up too.

988
00:52:50,375 --> 00:52:52,169
[all exclaim]

989
00:52:52,252 --> 00:52:54,379
[Eun-sim] Hoon-a. [laughs]

990
00:52:54,462 --> 00:52:56,047
[Hoon-a] It's the same day.

991
00:52:57,257 --> 00:53:00,468
-[Jong-tae] Am I bowing to someone here?
-[Eun-sim] Maybe for a ceremony?

992
00:53:00,552 --> 00:53:01,511
[Jong-tae] That's right.

993
00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:04,973
[Joon Ho] I see
the top of the 8200 over there. [laughs]

994
00:53:06,266 --> 00:53:09,102
-[Dong-hoon] The opening ceremony!
-[Jong-tae] Yes, that's what this was.

995
00:53:09,186 --> 00:53:10,729
Our opening ceremony.

996
00:53:11,730 --> 00:53:13,607
I remember that pig's head.

997
00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:15,442
[Eun-sim] Hmm.

998
00:53:16,401 --> 00:53:18,486
We didn't have money
for an actual pig's head,

999
00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:20,280
so I drew that on paper.

1000
00:53:20,864 --> 00:53:23,033
-Yes, that's my drawing style.
-Yeah, Joon Ho drew that.

1001
00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:26,411
I wrote the ceremony's order of events
on that poster.

1002
00:53:26,494 --> 00:53:28,163
-[Jong-tae] Really?
-That's his handwriting.

1003
00:53:28,246 --> 00:53:29,706
-[Jong-tae] That handwriting?
-Yes.

1004
00:53:29,789 --> 00:53:31,041
[Joon Ho] That's not mine.

1005
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,543
"Gorilla" something is written there.

1006
00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:35,754
-Two, yes.
-[Jong-tae] Gorilla 2.

1007
00:53:35,837 --> 00:53:37,756
-That was Gorilla 2?
-[Seok-woo] Yes.

1008
00:53:37,839 --> 00:53:40,592
-So Gorilla 2 is Looking for Paradise?
-[Joon Ho] Yes, for Paradise.

1009
00:53:41,509 --> 00:53:44,930
I called it Gorilla 2
as if it was a series. How embarrassing!

1010
00:53:45,013 --> 00:53:47,015
[lively jazz music playing]

1011
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:51,186
[man] There was a club
Director Choi Jong-tae made

1012
00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:54,022
with some younger people
who were passionate about film.

1013
00:53:54,940 --> 00:53:57,275
They were having a screening
at the end of the year.

1014
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,198
[Joon Ho] Choi Jong-tae,
Woo Hyun, and Ahn Nae-sang.

1015
00:54:03,281 --> 00:54:05,575
Those two are both
very popular actors now.

1016
00:54:06,618 --> 00:54:08,620
But they were the three musketeers.

1017
00:54:08,703 --> 00:54:11,706
Hyun and Nae-sang
often visited Yellow Door.

1018
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:14,417
We had lots of drinks together too.

1019
00:54:15,043 --> 00:54:15,961
[man] Yes.

1020
00:54:18,546 --> 00:54:20,382
AHN NAE-SANG - WOO HYUN

1021
00:54:20,465 --> 00:54:22,550
It was a screening,
so I thought it would be grandiose,

1022
00:54:22,634 --> 00:54:24,261
but it was held in a tiny office.

1023
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:27,305
I remember going to see it.

1024
00:54:28,181 --> 00:54:32,102
It was kind of boring and tedious.
I thought, "This is it?"

1025
00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:34,896
I almost lost interest completely.

1026
00:54:34,980 --> 00:54:36,982
[dramatic music playing]

1027
00:54:39,150 --> 00:54:42,612
[Nae-sang] But as soon as Joon Ho's work
started playing, I was enthralled.

1028
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:45,365
I thought, "What is this?"

1029
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:47,200
"I want to watch it."

1030
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:49,369
[Hyun] I really want to see it again.
I mean it.

1031
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:54,165
[Joon Ho] What did you do
on the animated film?

1032
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,167
For Gorilla?

1033
00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:59,504
-Yes. Were you controlling the dolls?
-[Dong-hoon] We would swap.

1034
00:54:59,587 --> 00:55:01,798
Were you at the camera
when I was with the dolls?

1035
00:55:01,881 --> 00:55:05,302
No, the person who was less fit
was in charge of the camera.

1036
00:55:05,385 --> 00:55:08,847
-Then the person who had more energy--
-[Joon Ho] You were fit, right?

1037
00:55:08,930 --> 00:55:11,558
I kept moving the dolls.
We had to hang them up high too.

1038
00:55:11,641 --> 00:55:13,810
-We had to use ladders.
-[Joon Ho] The dangerous things.

1039
00:55:13,893 --> 00:55:14,769
I mostly did those.

1040
00:55:14,853 --> 00:55:15,729
[both laugh]

1041
00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:17,480
Like hanging them off a pipe?

1042
00:55:18,606 --> 00:55:20,317
Yes, I thought it'd be fun.

1043
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,569
-At first.
-[Dong-hoon] Yes, at first!

1044
00:55:23,069 --> 00:55:27,157
For about two days, we shot
in the basement of the Daerim apartments,

1045
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,994
the place that had the pipes
in Barking Dogs Never Bite.

1046
00:55:31,745 --> 00:55:34,706
[Joon Ho] We moved the stuffed gorilla
little by little while shooting there.

1047
00:55:34,789 --> 00:55:36,082
It was really tough.

1048
00:55:36,583 --> 00:55:39,586
[moving classical music playing]

1049
00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:44,674
[choral voices singing]

1050
00:55:48,094 --> 00:55:51,598
[Joon Ho] The Hitachi 8200 had
a lot of complex features.

1051
00:55:51,681 --> 00:55:53,516
I shot and edited with it.

1052
00:55:54,017 --> 00:55:56,686
It also had a feature to insert subtitles.

1053
00:55:57,312 --> 00:55:58,521
But not in Korean.

1054
00:55:58,605 --> 00:56:01,066
I had to put in English subtitles.

1055
00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:03,360
I don't think I had any choice

1056
00:56:03,443 --> 00:56:06,613
but to make it into a silent film
with English subtitles.

1057
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:19,542
[Lee] The main character, the Gorilla,
goes up on a stone and poops.

1058
00:56:20,877 --> 00:56:24,130
-[Joon Ho] Yes, we had a stone.
-[Lee] It pooped on top of the stone.

1059
00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:25,423
[gorilla grunting]

1060
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:28,968
[Dong-hoon] The grunting the Gorilla makes
as it poops was Director Bong.

1061
00:56:29,052 --> 00:56:31,137
[grunting]

1062
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:42,190
[Lee] That turns into a poop caterpillar
and attacks the Gorilla. [laughs]

1063
00:56:42,273 --> 00:56:43,441
And then it--

1064
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:46,611
[Joon Ho] It's embarrassing
to hear someone explain the story.

1065
00:56:51,950 --> 00:56:55,245
When you think about it,
it was kind of a monster film.

1066
00:56:55,328 --> 00:56:57,664
A mysterious creature appears.

1067
00:56:59,290 --> 00:57:01,709
The caterpillar was made of white clay.

1068
00:57:02,627 --> 00:57:05,672
I thought it would be too gross
if it was made of red clay.

1069
00:57:05,755 --> 00:57:06,965
Too disgusting.

1070
00:57:07,048 --> 00:57:10,051
And they begin to fight
as the gorilla defends itself.

1071
00:57:14,305 --> 00:57:18,685
The story was about the Gorilla trying
to find someplace without these monsters.

1072
00:57:19,310 --> 00:57:21,688
[somber guitar music playing]

1073
00:57:22,647 --> 00:57:25,525
[Joon Ho] The gorilla that lived
in a dark, dirty basement

1074
00:57:25,608 --> 00:57:28,278
escaped to find a place like paradise.

1075
00:57:29,237 --> 00:57:33,450
That's why it has its cheesy title,
Looking for Paradise.

1076
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:39,956
[Min Hyang] There was a tree
in the middle of the field,

1077
00:57:40,039 --> 00:57:44,502
and the gorilla began dreaming
about picking fresh bananas off the tree.

1078
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:48,756
A gorilla is supposed to climb trees,

1079
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:53,094
but the gorilla in this film
climbed up gray pipes in a basement,

1080
00:57:53,178 --> 00:57:54,554
dreaming about its escape.

1081
00:58:00,643 --> 00:58:02,353
[Jong-tae] When the gorilla began to move

1082
00:58:02,437 --> 00:58:06,900
and started taking actions
to achieve its goal, I began to think…

1083
00:58:09,319 --> 00:58:12,280
"Strangely, the connection
of this simple plot and story

1084
00:58:12,363 --> 00:58:17,327
combined with cinematic imagination
has created something wonderful."

1085
00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:34,427
Maybe it was because
I wasn't a part of the film's production.

1086
00:58:34,511 --> 00:58:37,388
I had no idea
it was that difficult to shoot that film.

1087
00:58:37,472 --> 00:58:41,518
I didn't want to tell anyone
I didn't think the film was very good.

1088
00:58:43,394 --> 00:58:46,356
All of my friends who studied film
were giving him good reviews,

1089
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:49,067
so I wasn't going to say otherwise.

1090
00:58:49,567 --> 00:58:54,697
I didn't tell them what I really thought,
and just said, "Oh, it was nicely done."

1091
00:58:56,115 --> 00:58:57,283
I was a bit…

1092
00:58:58,826 --> 00:58:59,827
cheeky.

1093
00:59:00,870 --> 00:59:02,705
And I didn't think much of it.

1094
00:59:03,289 --> 00:59:05,792
WALLACE AND GROMIT: A GRAND DAY OUT
NICK PARK, 1989

1095
00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:08,962
It's called stop-motion animation.
It's also called the stop-frame.

1096
00:59:09,045 --> 00:59:10,213
So I said,

1097
00:59:11,839 --> 00:59:15,301
"If the camera has that function,
then anybody can shoot it."

1098
00:59:15,969 --> 00:59:17,554
I was really flustered.

1099
00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:19,973
When I played it
for our end-of-the-year party,

1100
00:59:20,056 --> 00:59:22,475
my face went red
all the way up to my ears.

1101
00:59:23,768 --> 00:59:27,564
I think it was the first time
I created something with a story.

1102
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:33,486
And there were about 15 to 20 people
there, right? They were the audience.

1103
00:59:35,071 --> 00:59:37,991
But it was the end-of-the-year party,
so everyone was like,

1104
00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:40,618
"Let's just get it over with
and start drinking."

1105
00:59:40,702 --> 00:59:42,161
But I was so nervous

1106
00:59:42,245 --> 00:59:46,082
that I remember turning completely red
all the way up to my ears.

1107
00:59:48,251 --> 00:59:50,670
That's why I turned to live-action film.

1108
00:59:50,753 --> 00:59:53,131
My animated film
was why I gave up on animation.

1109
00:59:53,214 --> 00:59:54,048
I see.

1110
00:59:54,132 --> 00:59:56,968
I could only move the doll
a little bit at a time

1111
00:59:57,051 --> 00:59:58,720
because it was stop-motion.

1112
00:59:59,679 --> 01:00:02,890
And eventually, I started feeling angry
at the main character.

1113
01:00:02,974 --> 01:00:03,850
[both laugh]

1114
01:00:03,933 --> 01:00:07,145
[Joon Ho] I began to think,
"Can't you move an inch by yourself?"

1115
01:00:07,228 --> 01:00:10,356
So I turned to live-action films
because the actors move on their own.

1116
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:11,441
[Dong-hoon] Right

1117
01:00:11,983 --> 01:00:14,819
But don't you think
you were kind of crazy in those days,

1118
01:00:14,902 --> 01:00:16,446
if you think back on it?

1119
01:00:16,529 --> 01:00:18,990
We did stay up all night to film them.

1120
01:00:19,490 --> 01:00:21,659
[Dong-hoon] We got there at 8:00
to set up.

1121
01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:23,453
Was it hot or cold outside?

1122
01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:26,873
I don't remember
because I was so immersed on set.

1123
01:00:26,956 --> 01:00:27,790
[both laugh]

1124
01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:29,667
-[Joon Ho] I think it was cold.
-It was chilly.

1125
01:00:30,251 --> 01:00:31,586
I think we had coats on.

1126
01:00:32,962 --> 01:00:35,256
-And then your mother--
-She came downstairs.

1127
01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:38,676
It was late at night, and she looked at us
with pity, like, "Goodness, you idiots."

1128
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,137
-Asked if we were done yet.
-[Dong-hoon] "Are you done yet?"

1129
01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:45,516
At that time,
I was already discharged from the army.

1130
01:00:46,434 --> 01:00:48,436
And her grown-up son was in the basement

1131
01:00:48,519 --> 01:00:50,855
playing with a stuffed gorilla
in the middle of the night.

1132
01:00:50,938 --> 01:00:51,939
[Dong-hoon] Right.

1133
01:00:52,523 --> 01:00:54,359
She must've been boiling inside.

1134
01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:56,653
She must've been really frustrated.

1135
01:00:59,155 --> 01:01:01,783
I believe that the essence
of Director Bong's films

1136
01:01:01,866 --> 01:01:04,077
was already established in

1137
01:01:04,952 --> 01:01:06,537
Looking for Paradise.

1138
01:01:06,621 --> 01:01:07,872
[somber string music playing]

1139
01:01:07,955 --> 01:01:09,749
INCOHERENCE
BONG JOON HO, 1994

1140
01:01:09,832 --> 01:01:12,543
[Jong-tae] His films have
a lot of scenes in basements.

1141
01:01:13,670 --> 01:01:18,633
[man 1 in Korean] Oh, you can go down
to the basement and do your business.

1142
01:01:24,722 --> 01:01:29,477
The restroom in the maintenance office
is too far from here.

1143
01:01:33,189 --> 01:01:35,274
BARKING DOG NEVER BITES
BONG JOON HO, 2000

1144
01:01:35,358 --> 01:01:37,694
[man 2] This is the story
from when this apartment was built.

1145
01:01:37,777 --> 01:01:39,987
Back in 1988,
when apartment construction was booming…

1146
01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:42,031
MEMORIES OF MURDER
BONG JOON HO, 2003

1147
01:01:42,156 --> 01:01:44,659
[man 3] Since you got discharged
from the army

1148
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:47,662
and came to the factory in this town,
there have been a series of incidents.

1149
01:01:47,745 --> 01:01:49,706
[man 4] I don't think
this is forgery or crime.

1150
01:01:49,789 --> 01:01:51,124
PARASITE
BONG JOON HO, 2019

1151
01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:53,167
[man 4] I'm going
to this university next year.

1152
01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:56,713
[man 5] Oh, you had
everything planned out!

1153
01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:01,968
-[in English] I knew he'd make it.
-Yes.

1154
01:02:02,468 --> 01:02:03,636
That I knew,

1155
01:02:04,137 --> 01:02:05,096
but not this big!

1156
01:02:05,179 --> 01:02:06,931
[laughs]

1157
01:02:07,849 --> 01:02:10,727
He would say
that he's very quick with numbers

1158
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:13,521
and that he never
wastes money on anything.

1159
01:02:14,939 --> 01:02:16,566
Woo Hyun sponsored

1160
01:02:18,151 --> 01:02:20,820
Director Bong's first short film,

1161
01:02:20,903 --> 01:02:22,071
White Collar.

1162
01:02:23,072 --> 01:02:24,949
I thought you gave him
about three million won.

1163
01:02:25,032 --> 01:02:26,701
-No.
-How much?

1164
01:02:26,784 --> 01:02:29,370
-No. I can't even remember.
-You don't?

1165
01:02:29,454 --> 01:02:31,205
-It was partial.
-Partial?

1166
01:02:31,289 --> 01:02:33,666
A partial sponsorship.
He recorded the amount.

1167
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:35,418
-500,000.
-You sure?

1168
01:02:35,501 --> 01:02:37,712
-Yes.
-You told me it was three million.

1169
01:02:37,795 --> 01:02:39,172
-Really?
-You lied to me.

1170
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:42,008
Hyun was there
at the end-of-the-year party,

1171
01:02:42,091 --> 01:02:44,385
and he watched my animated film.

1172
01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:47,305
Because of that,
he made a partial investment

1173
01:02:47,388 --> 01:02:49,015
in my film White Collar.

1174
01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:50,850
WHITE COLLAR
BONG JOON HO, 1994

1175
01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:54,437
[Joon Ho] He gave me money
when I shot that short film.

1176
01:02:56,481 --> 01:02:58,274
PRODUCTION FUNDING: WOO HYUN-HUI

1177
01:02:58,357 --> 01:02:59,525
[Hyun] "Woo Hyun-hui"?

1178
01:02:59,609 --> 01:03:01,861
Joon Ho didn't even know my name.

1179
01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:03,654
-Come on!
-Man!

1180
01:03:03,738 --> 01:03:05,865
He probably knows your name by now, right?

1181
01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:09,368
This might sound a bit awkward,

1182
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:14,582
but this is really the first time
I've ever regretted helping someone out.

1183
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,168
Not from back then.

1184
01:03:18,586 --> 01:03:20,671
But a few years later when he filmed…

1185
01:03:23,341 --> 01:03:24,300
Memories of Murder.

1186
01:03:24,383 --> 01:03:26,177
MEMORIES OF MURDER
BY BONG JOON HO

1187
01:03:26,260 --> 01:03:27,637
[Hyun] After I saw it…

1188
01:03:29,889 --> 01:03:32,099
my heart felt heavy and stunned.

1189
01:03:32,683 --> 01:03:35,311
I was consumed by so many emotions.

1190
01:03:36,562 --> 01:03:37,688
I thought,

1191
01:03:39,148 --> 01:03:40,650
"I should've paid for it all."

1192
01:03:40,733 --> 01:03:43,152
[laughs]

1193
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:46,239
"For the entire film."

1194
01:03:47,198 --> 01:03:50,159
"Why was I so stingy
and only gave him that much?"

1195
01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:52,119
I actually had these thoughts.

1196
01:03:52,829 --> 01:03:54,831
[pensive music playing]

1197
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,342
[Hoon-a] At the end of the film,
we see a tree. A single tree.

1198
01:04:07,218 --> 01:04:09,428
The film was called Looking for Paradise.

1199
01:04:09,512 --> 01:04:11,430
Now that I think about it,

1200
01:04:12,473 --> 01:04:14,934
I guess everyone is looking for something.

1201
01:04:15,810 --> 01:04:17,520
That's been on my mind.

1202
01:04:20,314 --> 01:04:22,733
[Min Hyang] During the ending,
the gorilla reaches the tree

1203
01:04:22,817 --> 01:04:24,360
and stands in front of it.

1204
01:04:24,443 --> 01:04:26,070
We're looking at the back of the gorilla.

1205
01:04:26,153 --> 01:04:29,574
And as the camera slowly zooms out,
you can see…

1206
01:04:33,536 --> 01:04:38,124
that the banana tree
was a tree inside of a television.

1207
01:04:45,464 --> 01:04:47,633
I probably cried a bit at the ending.

1208
01:04:49,135 --> 01:04:53,723
It was put together so well
that you could relate to the gorilla.

1209
01:04:59,020 --> 01:05:03,274
Back then, we couldn't leave the area
or neighborhood around campus.

1210
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,111
I was unemployed and unable to make money.

1211
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:14,243
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do,
nor did I know what I was supposed to do.

1212
01:05:15,411 --> 01:05:17,622
But I knew what I didn't want to do.

1213
01:05:21,167 --> 01:05:23,044
So, in that way,

1214
01:05:24,962 --> 01:05:26,923
I was like the gorilla.

1215
01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:29,300
Yes.

1216
01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:40,311
[woman] When you consider
the current video culture,

1217
01:05:40,394 --> 01:05:44,398
this new theater that's opening tomorrow
will become a magnificent revolution.

1218
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:45,858
I actually already visited.

1219
01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:47,777
THE FIRST ART FILM THEATER
DONGSUNG CINEMATHEQUE

1220
01:05:47,860 --> 01:05:50,905
[Joon Ho] Everything explodes
around 1995, the 100th year of cinema.

1221
01:05:50,988 --> 01:05:54,742
[reporter] The very first art film theater
will open tomorrow.

1222
01:05:59,330 --> 01:06:01,832
[Joon Ho] Outside of Russia,
Tarkovsky's Nostalghia

1223
01:06:01,916 --> 01:06:05,044
probably had the most success
at the Korean box office.

1224
01:06:05,127 --> 01:06:07,755
And 60,000 people saw Sacrifice.

1225
01:06:08,756 --> 01:06:11,550
Everyone went
and watched these kinds of films.

1226
01:06:13,094 --> 01:06:14,804
Then we all had headaches together.

1227
01:06:16,180 --> 01:06:20,393
Magazines like Cine 21 and Kino
published their first issues.

1228
01:06:20,893 --> 01:06:24,188
We would all read
Jung Sung-il's magazine articles.

1229
01:06:24,271 --> 01:06:25,773
Everyone was in a frenzy.

1230
01:06:26,774 --> 01:06:28,567
[newsreader] Jurassic Park,
an American film

1231
01:06:28,651 --> 01:06:30,319
that premiered a few years ago,

1232
01:06:30,403 --> 01:06:34,240
made more profit than the total
annual exports of all Korean cars.

1233
01:06:35,616 --> 01:06:38,327
KIM HYUNG-OAK,
MEMBER, YELLOW DOOR - CRITIQUE DEPARTMENT

1234
01:06:38,411 --> 01:06:41,288
In my opinion, the film industry
began to form after the mid to late '90s.

1235
01:06:41,372 --> 01:06:46,335
Someone would suddenly rise to fame
or become the chief editor of a magazine.

1236
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:48,671
[in Korean] Conglomerates have joined
the film industry…

1237
01:06:48,754 --> 01:06:50,840
[Hyung-oak in English] I think
we were also motivated

1238
01:06:50,923 --> 01:06:52,675
as we watched everything unfold.

1239
01:06:52,758 --> 01:06:54,677
CONGLOMERATES ACTIVELY
ENTERING THE NEW INDUSTRY

1240
01:06:55,469 --> 01:06:56,971
Back in the '70s and '80s,

1241
01:06:57,054 --> 01:06:59,515
young film lovers would get together
and complain.

1242
01:07:02,184 --> 01:07:04,687
"Why doesn't Korea
have a film festival or film school?

1243
01:07:05,187 --> 01:07:07,982
KOREA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS
SCHOOL OF FILM OPENS, MAY 1995

1244
01:07:09,316 --> 01:07:11,110
THE 1ST SEOUL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 1994

1245
01:07:11,193 --> 01:07:13,154
"Why doesn't Korea sponsor
short film productions?"

1246
01:07:14,989 --> 01:07:18,325
"I'm sure that outside of this country,
there's great places for film."

1247
01:07:18,409 --> 01:07:20,369
"I hope to visit them one day."

1248
01:07:21,495 --> 01:07:23,622
[newsreader] The Pusan
International Film Festival,

1249
01:07:23,706 --> 01:07:28,335
Korea's first international film festival,
kicks off its eight-day run tonight.

1250
01:07:28,419 --> 01:07:31,756
[inspirational music playing]

1251
01:07:35,593 --> 01:07:36,469
[Hoon-a] One day,

1252
01:07:37,553 --> 01:07:38,971
I was going here and there,

1253
01:07:39,055 --> 01:07:41,640
writing my dissertation
for my graduate program.

1254
01:07:41,724 --> 01:07:44,310
I actually wrote something on films.

1255
01:07:45,394 --> 01:07:49,398
I ran into Joon Ho at Gangnam Station.
I said, "What brings you here?"

1256
01:07:49,482 --> 01:07:52,693
It was odd, since we usually met
near Hongik University.

1257
01:07:52,777 --> 01:07:55,988
He said he was
trying to get into a film academy.

1258
01:07:56,489 --> 01:07:57,573
And he said

1259
01:07:58,449 --> 01:08:00,534
that he had to take
an English test to get in.

1260
01:08:01,786 --> 01:08:05,748
So he'd been taking time
to study English at IKE English.

1261
01:08:06,499 --> 01:08:08,292
I was surprised at the time.

1262
01:08:09,627 --> 01:08:11,629
I was young, too, so I thought,

1263
01:08:11,712 --> 01:08:15,758
"Oh, Joon Ho really thinks
film can become his life."

1264
01:08:16,383 --> 01:08:20,846
"Films were just romance to me,
but he wants to make a career of it."

1265
01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:25,893
I realized something
only after thinking back on that time.

1266
01:08:26,393 --> 01:08:28,145
At the Yellow Door Film Institute,

1267
01:08:28,229 --> 01:08:31,273
I thought it was enough to watch films

1268
01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:33,651
and discuss them together.

1269
01:08:35,152 --> 01:08:37,530
I didn't know what the members wanted.

1270
01:08:39,156 --> 01:08:41,492
Their biggest desire was to make films.

1271
01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:43,202
They wanted to shoot films.

1272
01:08:45,329 --> 01:08:48,541
There were differences of opinions
among the members.

1273
01:08:48,624 --> 01:08:50,876
There were disagreements
about the curriculum

1274
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,420
and the direction
they wanted to take the group.

1275
01:08:53,504 --> 01:08:55,798
Because of these disagreements,

1276
01:08:56,841 --> 01:09:00,970
there came a time when we started to feel
a bit uncomfortable with one another.

1277
01:09:02,972 --> 01:09:04,515
No matter what it is,

1278
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:09,687
it's heartbreaking to watch something
that has passed its prime.

1279
01:09:10,688 --> 01:09:13,440
It's not like Yellow Door was a life form,

1280
01:09:14,191 --> 01:09:17,194
but its decline
made it feel like it was actually dying,

1281
01:09:17,278 --> 01:09:19,446
and I had to watch this all unfold.

1282
01:09:20,781 --> 01:09:23,159
Everyone had
different preferences and tastes.

1283
01:09:24,577 --> 01:09:26,954
We may have all
been a part of Yellow Door,

1284
01:09:27,037 --> 01:09:28,706
but we all had different dreams.

1285
01:09:28,789 --> 01:09:30,291
There was definitely something

1286
01:09:30,374 --> 01:09:32,877
that prevented us
from working together as one.

1287
01:09:50,644 --> 01:09:54,190
And so we eventually decided to stop.

1288
01:09:55,357 --> 01:09:56,775
After that,

1289
01:09:58,694 --> 01:10:00,154
I felt a bit lonely.

1290
01:10:01,572 --> 01:10:06,452
We had cultivated our dreams together
and achieved a lot of things together.

1291
01:10:06,535 --> 01:10:10,080
But it only took a moment
for the team to fall apart.

1292
01:10:10,164 --> 01:10:12,041
And when it fell apart,

1293
01:10:13,125 --> 01:10:15,544
all the members left
like a tide going out.

1294
01:10:19,006 --> 01:10:21,508
I suggested a trip.

1295
01:10:22,843 --> 01:10:24,845
I said, "We should take a trip."

1296
01:10:25,721 --> 01:10:27,431
We went somewhere by the East Sea.

1297
01:10:29,183 --> 01:10:32,102
Those who wanted to come
met at Cheongnyangni Station.

1298
01:10:34,104 --> 01:10:37,274
Everyone got together.
That trip was great.

1299
01:10:37,358 --> 01:10:39,401
[somber piano music playing]

1300
01:10:39,485 --> 01:10:41,737
I still remember it like it was yesterday.

1301
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:45,449
Just as we were passing Jeongdongjin,
dawn broke,

1302
01:10:45,532 --> 01:10:49,411
and the train began to play
"Moonlight Sonata."

1303
01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:51,372
It was wonderful.

1304
01:10:52,206 --> 01:10:55,668
There was an announcement
that we were approaching the last stop.

1305
01:10:55,751 --> 01:10:59,672
"Moonlight Sonata" continued to play
as the train passed by the beach.

1306
01:10:59,755 --> 01:11:01,757
["Moonlight Sonata" playing]

1307
01:11:04,426 --> 01:11:06,929
[Jong-tae] I think that time
at Yellow Door

1308
01:11:07,554 --> 01:11:09,556
was like an act of a play,

1309
01:11:11,475 --> 01:11:14,520
and the act needed to end
for the play to continue.

1310
01:11:16,689 --> 01:11:19,733
To continue on to the second,
third, and fourth acts.

1311
01:11:20,442 --> 01:11:24,154
And as we all lived our lives
for the next 30 years…

1312
01:11:26,198 --> 01:11:28,909
we continued to progress to the next acts

1313
01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:32,288
by learning from our mistakes.

1314
01:11:34,456 --> 01:11:37,751
And we used all of the things
that we learned from the first act.

1315
01:11:39,128 --> 01:11:41,171
The same applied to my life.

1316
01:11:43,424 --> 01:11:47,136
[Hoon-a] Can you remember
the feeling of being close to someone?

1317
01:11:47,219 --> 01:11:49,305
You always had a great time with them.

1318
01:11:49,388 --> 01:11:51,557
Always together, hand in hand.

1319
01:11:52,433 --> 01:11:55,436
But there comes a time
when you need to let that hand go.

1320
01:11:55,519 --> 01:11:57,563
That strange feeling of letting go.

1321
01:11:57,646 --> 01:11:59,106
I had this feeling.

1322
01:11:59,773 --> 01:12:00,941
[Dong-hoon] Personally,

1323
01:12:02,109 --> 01:12:03,610
I actually think it was good

1324
01:12:03,694 --> 01:12:07,323
that such genuine people came together
naturally and then disbanded.

1325
01:12:07,406 --> 01:12:11,160
If we'd stayed together
for a financial reason or some goal,

1326
01:12:12,369 --> 01:12:15,414
we would've constantly changed
what we were doing.

1327
01:12:24,173 --> 01:12:26,175
[music fades]

1328
01:12:27,217 --> 01:12:29,678
After Yellow Door,
I stopped watching films.

1329
01:12:31,013 --> 01:12:33,432
The films I watched with Yellow Door

1330
01:12:33,515 --> 01:12:36,977
were completely different
from those I watched outside of it.

1331
01:12:37,561 --> 01:12:40,606
Films had more meaning
when I watched them with Yellow Door.

1332
01:12:40,689 --> 01:12:42,858
Because when I'd watch them later,

1333
01:12:43,567 --> 01:12:46,403
I'd think to myself,
"I actually liked these?"

1334
01:12:47,237 --> 01:12:50,824
When I returned to my normal life
and watched films in the theater,

1335
01:12:50,908 --> 01:12:53,619
they no longer had
that extra layer of meaning.

1336
01:12:55,704 --> 01:12:59,792
Back then, when Yellow Door ended,
I was really disappointed

1337
01:12:59,875 --> 01:13:02,920
because I wanted our studies to continue.

1338
01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:07,800
But now, they're just old, great memories.

1339
01:13:10,761 --> 01:13:12,930
When I turned 40 and 50,

1340
01:13:13,430 --> 01:13:15,140
I became very disheartened.

1341
01:13:15,641 --> 01:13:16,642
Yes.

1342
01:13:17,684 --> 01:13:19,395
Because of those times.

1343
01:13:20,062 --> 01:13:22,481
Times that disappeared just like that.

1344
01:13:23,357 --> 01:13:24,817
[Min Hyang] The film industry

1345
01:13:24,900 --> 01:13:27,528
had a special place in my heart
for a long time.

1346
01:13:27,611 --> 01:13:29,988
Even after those days. Even now.

1347
01:13:32,282 --> 01:13:34,576
[Nae-sang] The journey of searching
is meaningful.

1348
01:13:35,285 --> 01:13:36,954
Even if it's for a banana.

1349
01:13:37,037 --> 01:13:40,791
The act of watching that
and taking meaning from it is a journey.

1350
01:13:40,874 --> 01:13:44,503
But those who have never begun
their journey would continue to believe

1351
01:13:45,003 --> 01:13:46,338
in the basement,

1352
01:13:47,548 --> 01:13:49,258
there are bananas up there.

1353
01:13:50,926 --> 01:13:53,512
So, in a way, there comes a time

1354
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:57,641
when you think the tree in that screen
is up ahead.

1355
01:13:58,267 --> 01:14:01,437
KIM MIN HYANG (2014)

1356
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,231
[Min Hyang] I'm not sure
how much time I have left,

1357
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:09,486
but I feel like
I can go to that tree and touch it now.

1358
01:14:09,570 --> 01:14:10,821
I think I can do that.

1359
01:14:12,739 --> 01:14:14,366
This is embarrassing,

1360
01:14:14,450 --> 01:14:16,243
but when I painted,

1361
01:14:16,869 --> 01:14:17,870
I found myself

1362
01:14:18,829 --> 01:14:21,790
painting the last scene
of Looking for Paradise

1363
01:14:22,332 --> 01:14:24,501
without even realizing it.

1364
01:14:25,711 --> 01:14:28,839
It was a scene
of a young girl looking for something.

1365
01:14:29,339 --> 01:14:32,259
I wasn't thinking of Yellow Door
when I painted it.

1366
01:14:33,594 --> 01:14:36,013
But when I think back on it today,

1367
01:14:37,806 --> 01:14:40,642
I must have painted
my desire to find something.

1368
01:14:42,811 --> 01:14:47,107
Just the fact that we had that
once-upon-a-time experience 30 years ago.

1369
01:14:50,652 --> 01:14:52,404
That we didn't worry about the future.

1370
01:14:52,488 --> 01:14:55,657
That we spent all our time
just hanging out and having fun.

1371
01:14:56,241 --> 01:14:58,202
It feels like a puzzle piece to me.

1372
01:14:59,411 --> 01:15:01,663
Everything I've shared so far

1373
01:15:02,873 --> 01:15:05,417
are stories from 30 years ago,

1374
01:15:06,293 --> 01:15:08,504
and I just can't believe that number.

1375
01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:09,421
[laughs]

1376
01:15:09,505 --> 01:15:11,048
I can't believe

1377
01:15:11,798 --> 01:15:14,218
that's it already been 30 years.

1378
01:15:14,301 --> 01:15:15,427
[laughs]

1379
01:15:16,929 --> 01:15:20,390
We all burned out
like a flame in 1992 and 1993.

1380
01:15:20,891 --> 01:15:24,978
But I'm sure everyone remembers
that time differently.

1381
01:15:25,062 --> 01:15:26,647
Some were there briefly,

1382
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:29,274
and some stayed for a long time.

1383
01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:32,819
Others were in the midst
of crazy life changes, like Jong-tae.

1384
01:15:33,654 --> 01:15:36,323
I'm sure
everyone remembers it differently.

1385
01:15:37,699 --> 01:15:39,284
When I look back on it…

1386
01:15:41,411 --> 01:15:42,704
I don't think

1387
01:15:44,081 --> 01:15:48,335
I have ever been as passionately crazy
about films as I was then.

1388
01:15:49,503 --> 01:15:51,713
That period was a beginning for me.

1389
01:15:52,714 --> 01:15:54,716
I want to remember that time.

1390
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:58,136
And although I had already left,

1391
01:15:58,762 --> 01:16:01,974
that place showed me
where my journey would continue.

1392
01:16:02,724 --> 01:16:04,059
My beginning.

1393
01:16:05,018 --> 01:16:06,228
Yellow Door.

1394
01:16:06,728 --> 01:16:08,689
[gentle classical music playing]

1395
01:16:15,153 --> 01:16:16,905
Would we be able to do this well now?

1396
01:16:16,989 --> 01:16:19,199
[laughs]

1397
01:16:54,651 --> 01:16:56,737
[Se-bum]
"About the Yellow Door Film Institute."

1398
01:16:57,571 --> 01:16:58,864
"The Yellow Door Film Institute

1399
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is a group of people
who gather to study films."

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"Studying films isn't something
one can do all by themselves."

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"People gathered
and exchanged information and materials."

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"The group grew to over 30 people."

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"We've decided to clumsily call ourselves
a film institute."

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"There's different departments
for your cinematic path of choice."

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"Critique, directing, and screenwriting."

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"Each department
works on various activities."

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"We have a variety of members,

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from those who were just introduced
to film studies,

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to graduate students of film."

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"There are also graduate
and doctoral students of the humanities."

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"But we have one thing in common."

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"We hope to discover our life's journey
through this medium called film."

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"The institute provides suitable programs

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to meet the many needs
among members at different levels."

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"We believe this is a good place

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for those who wish
to begin their film studies

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with a theoretical approach."

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"Of course, each department also provides
essential, hands-on creative programs."

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"The Yellow Door Film Institute
awaits passionate, talented,

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young, prospective film students."

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"Knock on the institute's yellow door,

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and you will start your journey
into film studies

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and the Korean film industry."

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Wow. [laughs]

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Gosh, that's fancy.

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That was fancy!

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It's nicely written. [laughs]

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How wonderful.

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[sentimental classical music playing]

1430
01:19:03,071 --> 01:19:09,077
Kim Dae-yup runs
an interior design business.

1431
01:19:13,331 --> 01:19:19,171
Kim Min Hyang secretly writes,
draws, and take photographs.

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01:19:23,508 --> 01:19:29,097
Kim Seok-woo loves mountains and canoeing,
and runs an environmental business.

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01:19:33,393 --> 01:19:39,274
Kim Yoon-a teaches film and storytelling
at university.

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01:19:43,445 --> 01:19:49,117
Kim Hyung-oak works as a filmmaker.

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01:19:53,538 --> 01:19:56,875
Ban Se-bum teaches psychology
at university

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and takes photographs in his spare time.

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Bong Joon Ho just finished shooting
his eighth feature film.

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01:20:13,391 --> 01:20:18,980
Lee Dong-hoon runs
a chess-teaching business.

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01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:29,407
Lee Byung-hoon runs
a medical appliances business in the US.

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01:20:33,912 --> 01:20:39,417
Lim Hoon-a works as a speech therapist
for children and adolescents.

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01:20:43,588 --> 01:20:49,261
Chang Eun-sim teaches math to students.

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01:20:53,765 --> 01:20:59,271
Choi Jong-tae released five feature films
and is working on his fourth novel.

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01:21:03,817 --> 01:21:10,824
Kim Hye-ja, Kim Hong-joon
Ahn Nae-sang, Woo Hyun, Ju Sung-chul

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[jazz music playing]