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Socialphobia

Korean Cinema Today

Social Criticism · IT/VR · Environment  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2014
  • Running Time100min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
People tend to be intentionally provocative or extremely argumentative over petty matters on twitter. A woman who challenges men becomes targeted as public enemy. Young men expose her identity and even show up on her doorstep. But what they find is Min Hayoung, the woman who had hanged herself. What caused her death? Was it by suicide or murder? Socialphobia addresses the question of adopting a different identity on the Internet through the death of a woman. Two young men Jiwoong and Yongmin who were preparing for the police academy exam become involved in the case. What apparently looks like suicide is held under suspicion by the two as foul play. After posing the possibility of homicide, the young men return to the crime scene. However mystery itself does not seem to be the point of this film as it gradually exposes during the course of finding the truth to Min Hayoung’s death, her life as it really was and what the two men in pursuit of the real cause of her death wanted to prove. Social network may connect people, but it also can become the host of a psychological sickness that people suffer from. (NAM Dong-chul)
Director
Director
HONG Seok-jae
Hong majored in Film Directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, and his short film Election (2009) was invited to the Miseen-scène Short Film Festival and Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. His next two films were Love Fee for Last Month(2011) and Keep Quiet(2011), and he won the Jury’s Special Award and Audience Award for Keep Quiet at Mise-enscène in 2012. Socialphobia is his feature film debut, produced through KAFA.
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Credit
  • Director HONG Seok-jae 홍석재
  • Producer Hanuel HONG
  • Cast Yohan BYUN, Ju-seung LEE
  • Screenplay Seok-jae HONG
  • Cinematography Sung-joung LEE
  • Production Design Ok-kyung PARK
  • Editor Min-sun PARK
  • Music Haewon KIM
  • Production Company KAFA FILMS (Korean Academy of Film Arts)
    Korea 143 Wausan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea (121-836)
    flowwing@kofic.or.kr

  • World Sales CJ Entertainment
    Korea 17th Floor, CJ E&M Center, Sangamsan-ro 66, Mapo-gu, Seoul
    hawon@cj.net