I finally got around to seeing The Housemaid (2010). Before talking about the movie, I have to encourage people to watch the first 5 minutes. It is one of the best dissections of Korean night life I’ve ever seen. It has almost everything: singing rooms, fish restaurants, barbecue coals, ahjummas doing back-breaking work, ahjummas speed [...]
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Before I moved to Korea I immersed myself in Korean movies — at least as much as I could via Netflix (which doesn’t offer all that much). I remember watching the movies and feeling like I was in some bizarre dreamland. The movies were very similar to Hollywood, but something was always off. Small things [...]
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