Kim, a young man who graduated from college, enters a small textile factory run by his distant relative, Mr. Park, and learns to work. Mr. Park tries to be nice to his workers, but they demand the basic rights of labor, including overtime pay. Kim feels confused while watching the conflict between Mr. Park and the workers. Adapted from Song Ki-suk¡¯s short story ¡°Calling Voice,¡± the film is insp..
Mija, who works as a seamstress at a clothing factory, lives up to her reality, although she is dissatisfied with continuous overtime works, night shifts, and unpaid salaries. Even if her roommate Yeonghee recommends her to join the labor movement, it is hard for her to do that. One day, watching Sukja, who leads the labor movement, being fired and assaulted for being the rebellious, Mija begins t..
LEE Eun, LEE Yongbae £ü 1989 | Documentary | B/W+Color | DCP | 41min 1sec
Synopsis
A documentary that Jangsangotmae produced before The Night Before Strike. It vividly records the workers¡¯ struggles that began in 1987 and continued through 1988 to 1989. The filmmakers went all over the country to document the struggles including the strike at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, of the Machang Labor Union, the strike and solidarity of the subway union, the struggles to form a Sam..
LEE Soo-jung £ü 1990 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 32min 55sec
Synopsis
South Korea¡¯s housing prices fluctuated a lot before and after the Olympic Games in 1988. The film is set against the backdrop of a time when nearly twenty people were forced to be dead in March-April alone due to an unprecedented surge in house leasing prices in 1990. In the industrial age, there were some people in South Korea who had to leave the countryside and live in the outskirts of Seoul...
LEE Sang-in £ü 1989 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 57min 9sec
Synopsis
A documentary recording the struggle of workers against the unilateral shut-down by a multinational company called Shure Products. About 150 workers stage a 122-day long sit-in at their workplace, exposing the injustice of the disguised shut-down and fighting in order to reopen the factory. The filmmakers shared a two-month stay with the workers to capture the scenes of the fight to withdraw the s..