On the 20th of January, 2009, tenants in Yongsan whose houses had been condemned died in a blaze in the middle of the city. The flames remind me of 1991 when I was a high school student and I witnessed a college student set himself on fire. People of the time referred to politics as the politics of self-immolation. During the June 1987 Movement, TV and newspapers reported the death of Hanyol, who was my neighbor. Deaths and people I have met since the Gwangju Democratic Movem...
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On the 20th of January, 2009, tenants in Yongsan whose houses had been condemned died in a blaze in the middle of the city. The flames remind me of 1991 when I was a high school student and I witnessed a college student set himself on fire. People of the time referred to politics as the politics of self-immolation. During the June 1987 Movement, TV and newspapers reported the death of Hanyol, who was my neighbor. Deaths and people I have met since the Gwangju Democratic Movement. This documentary is a dark portrait of Korea.
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