Seoul Visual Collective

director Hyung-Sook Hong
producer Seok-Pil Kang
cinematographer Seok-Pil Kang Mi-Yeon Kong
editor Hyuk-Gu Kwon
sound recording Yong-Soo Pyo
original music G. Mahler Isang Yun
supported by Korean Film Commission Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst(DAAD)
production company Seoul Visual Collective

In October 2002, Dr. Song tried again to return to Korea. “I will go anyway even though I am expelled at the airport." So firm was his resolution. However, his plan fell flat unexpectedly. It's because the org which invited him withdrew the invitation itself reading the authorities' attitude. He criticized 'absence of will and courage.' I don't know how to say how deep his disappointment and sorrow might be. However it would be much more bitter this time. My heart was pierced this time as I was when I witnessed the same case in Berlin in 2000. "There can't be an end of democratization, for it is a process of forwarding without cease!" says he. This words rebuke not others but me who grow familiar with accepting the reality as it is in my fifties. I hope this film to be a little thing that I can do for those living abroad against their hope and will.

Dr. Du-Yul Song, a Korean German philosopher, is faced with a special situation. Since he went Germany to study, he hasn't been able to come back to Korea, his homeland, for 33 years. It's because South Korean intelligence agencies regarded him as a high level 'spy' of North Korea. Owing to improvement of relationship between the North and the South, he was expecting to realize a lifelong wish, 'home-coming'. Will the door to Korea open for him and his unintended exile be ended, while the ghost of 'Red Complex' is still in the air?

2002, DVCAM, 79min

invited to 7th Pusan Int'l Film Festival
invited to Seoul Independent Film Festival of 2002 winner of Award
invited to 33th International Forum of Young Cinema in 53th Berlin Int'l Film Festival