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Kim Tae-yang · 2023 · overland

Kim Tae-yang's 2023 debut, shot in Seoul over four years. In three chapters spread across the years, a man and a woman keep meeting by chance and walking the streets of the historic Jongno district, talking of the past and the present as the ever-changing city dissolves and rebuilds itself around them.

  1. 1
    Gwanghwamun Square

    The great statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the one fixed landmark in a city under constant change.

  2. 2
    Jongno

    In the historic heart of Seoul two former classmates meet by chance and wander, both a little lost.

  3. 3
    Euljiro 3-ga

    The old hardware-shop quarter, rebuilt after the war, walked again as the years pass.

  4. 4
    The Seoul Cinema

    The beloved old theatre, now closed, where she speaks on a lost film by Korea's first woman director.

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