Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 1

This is the second product of the Korean Film Archive’s senior film personnel oral history project. Ten senior film workers such as director Kim Ki-duk, Lee Gang-won, actors Lee Gyeong-hee, Lee Min, Yoon In-ja, cameraman Seo Jeong-min, Jeong Jo-myeong, lighting engineer Park Chang-ho, critic Im Yeong, and scenario writer Han Woo-jeong come together to shed light upon the ‘Renaissance of Korean films’ of the late 1950s through their deep and rich verbal accounts. Kim Gi-deok, who started off the boom of youth movies with , director Lee Min who made , which was the greatest controversy of the 1950s, actress Yoon In-ja, who is famous for appearing in Korea’s first kiss scene in , and Seo Jeong-min and Jeon Jo-myeong, who are still working as cameramen, and Han Woo-jeong, the scenario writer who worked with director Lee Man-hee, all have interesting stories to tell with vivid photographs from their personal photo albums.