In Korea, Japan and the Philippines, there are many women with diverse jobs, careers and life stories. Among them, this film focuses on those who are called housewives, sex workers, dispatched workers, migrant workers, comfort women, homeless and so on. These diverse women have never met one another, and their lives look quite different from each other. However, they are connected across national borders by the one thing they do have in common: the intersection between their ...more

In Korea, Japan and the Philippines, there are many women with diverse jobs, careers and life stories. Among them, this film focuses on those who are called housewives, sex workers, dispatched workers, migrant workers, comfort women, homeless and so on. These diverse women have never met one another, and their lives look quite different from each other. However, they are connected across national borders by the one thing they do have in common: the intersection between their labor and their bodies. How can such different forms of labor be linked to the women's bodies in such a similar way? As we search for answers to this question, we are forced to confront another hypothesis: 'the meaning of labor,' as an ideology, is reproduced through society.

KYUNG Soon is one of contemporary Korea’s most prolific and socially observant documentary filmmakers. Through films such as <Mindullae> (1999), <Patriot Games> (2001), <Shocking Family> (2006) and <Jam Docu GANGJUNG> (2011) she has confronted issues ranging from family politics and poverty to patriotism and militarization.less