Sund@y Seoul

Oh Myung-hoon

IndieLisboa 2005 •

South Korea, Fiction, 2004, 72′

This film starts off as three different stories that gra-dually intertwine into one. The characters reveal their passion and anxiety through the means of modern communications such as the Internet and cell phones. Sund@y Seoul delves into an aspect of how the medium that is the Internet constructs and dismantles people’s lives. These characters live gradually intertwine in the large city of Seoul, revealing their hidden desires and anxieties. College professor, Dong-Chun, sets up a hid-den camera in a motel room in a desperate attempt to keep going his secret love affair with his student, Eun-young. Ordinary middle-age housewife, Myung-joo, takes a stab at making a sexual breakaway through antisocial and free-spirited Shin-ae. High-school student, Jung-hwan, falls in love with a call girl named Soo-hee. By chance, he also meets Myung-joo while chatting on line. Soo-hee makes love regularly to Jee-wook, a married cop who she met when she was caught in his sting. Junior-high student, Hae-mee, has a puppy love for Jung-hwan so she follows Soo-hee and secretly takes pictures of her. These characters are like sensationalistic stories found in cheap tabloids.