After directing a few short films over the course of a decade, Kwak Eun-mi makes her feature debut with “A Tour Guide”. A socially charged drama concerned with North Korean ex-pats, Kwak's film paints a desperate picture of defectors struggling to secure a prosperous life in a new country.
A Tour Guide is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Han-young (Seol Lee) has just started as a tour guide working in South Korea. Fluent in Korean and Chinese, she guides tourists around famous landmarks, hoping to quickly impress and earn as much money as possible. However, as a North Korean defector, Han-young is constantly subject to scrutiny, whether it be from colleagues, her boss, or even the police. To make matters worse, her brother, who migrated with her, is nowhere to be found. Feeling alone in what is essentially a foreign land, Han-young struggles to make ends meet and provide for her ailing mother,...
A Tour Guide is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Han-young (Seol Lee) has just started as a tour guide working in South Korea. Fluent in Korean and Chinese, she guides tourists around famous landmarks, hoping to quickly impress and earn as much money as possible. However, as a North Korean defector, Han-young is constantly subject to scrutiny, whether it be from colleagues, her boss, or even the police. To make matters worse, her brother, who migrated with her, is nowhere to be found. Feeling alone in what is essentially a foreign land, Han-young struggles to make ends meet and provide for her ailing mother,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Tom Wilmot
- AsianMoviePulse
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