Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their...
With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.
Gi-tae, who continuously failed on his exam, returns to his hometown for the first time in ten years. He tried all different manual labors, but his debt-ridden life never seems to end. Soon Later, he starts working at a worn-out theater and meets Oh, the sign painter. Oh is never sober and always...
A director, a cinematographer, and an actress spend the days leading up to a movie shoot together on-location, waiting for the director to come up with an idea for what the film will be about.
Recently returned to South Korea, an actress in her forties is staying with her friend and her cat. Meanwhile, an aging poet in declining health lives alone after the death of his own cat. One day, each receives a visit from a different young aspiring artist, who come equipped with questions about...
The man receives a text message from his ex-girlfriend, Seung-yoon, and heads to the motel. At the motel, the man finds the baby that Seung-yoon left behind. He thinks he is his son and gives the baby the name 'Lee Jun' and raises him. While raising the baby, co-workers say they saw the child's...
Eighteen-year-old Da-seul was spending an ordinary life helping her father run a traditional makgeolli (rice wine) brewery. However, because the origin of the 'nuruk' (the yeast) that determines the taste of the makgeolli was unknown, their makgeolli could not be officially distributed, and they...
So-howa leaves an internship interview at a baking company and goes back to Busan. Famous patisserie Kim Ma-ri puts So-howa on a project to ruin Suyeong Bakery and open Mari Hotel and Kim Mari Bakery there under cover. So-howa creates a project to ruin Suyeong Bakery on the orders of the respected...