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is both entertainment and a documentary of the times. A documentary film was released that tells the story of girl craftsmen running a sewing machine in the peace market in the 1970s.
Famous directors also gave heartfelt praise, making it a topic of discussion.
Reporter Lee Joo-hyung introduces you.
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"The names we must remember other than Jeon Tae-il", "I burst into tears as if I had been bombed".
It is very rare to see a film that invited directors Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook to the theater and willingly filmed a cheering video.
The documentary film 'Women Riding a Sewing Machine' draws on the almost buried story of an unnamed teenage woman who was only called a sewing machine or a poem at the Pyeonghwa Market in Seoul in the 1970s.
[Lim Mi-kyung / Joo-yeon: Unjust and painful memories…
We didn't even tell our children until they went to college.] Although
many records of Jeon Tae-il have been left behind in books, movies, and animations, the history of Gong, a girl who lived with him through the days of barbarism, was not like that.
The film restores the history buried through the mouth of a girl who was in their hearts, now well past middle age.
[Shin Soon-ae/Jooyeon: I didn't ask questions like 'Bring your resident registration card' or 'How old are you?' without asking or questioning.
'Kid, have you tried poetry?'
That's why I said 'yes' on the spot.]
About 260 hours of interviews with 14 young girls and more than 1,000 new photos and letters, etc., also show the value of this film as the first large-scale narrator dealing with female workers in the peace market. .
The film, however, is not the language of cold struggle, but the language of warm emotion, reminding us that those who have worked, fought, studied and survived are the real heroes.
[Bong Joon-ho/Director: I think it was the most beautiful documentary I have seen recently.]
[Park Chan-wook/Director: This is a film I would recommend to everyone who was young in the 70s and now young.]
(Video Edit: Choi Eun-jin)