The Sanggyedong Olympics / The 6 Days Struggle at the Myong-Dong Cathedral(HKAFF 2020)

Movie Name: The Sanggyedong Olympics
Language: Korean(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 28 mins
Director: Kim Dong-won
Story: Before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Korean government pushed redevelopment plans in many parts of the city, including the neighborhood of Sanggyedong. Poor residents were suddenly faced with forced eviction; and resistance to home demolition was met with violence. Kim Dong-won lived with the Sanggyedong community for three years and recorded their long fight against displacement and systemic oppression in this groundbreaking short that is hailed as one of the earliest and most representative works of Korean independent documentary filmmaking.

Movie Name: The 6 Days Struggle at the Myong-Dong Cathedral
Language: Korean(English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 75 mins
Director: Kim Dong-won
Story: On the evening of 10th June 1987, a group of protesters evaded the police by taking refuge at Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral and began a sit-in protest. Thus begins the June Democracy Movement which would topple South Korea’s military dictatorship. A decade onwards, Kim Dong-won’s documentary reflected on the significance of this crucial six-day showdown through news reports, archival footage, interviews and first-hand accounts from participants—and how a protest in a downtown church would eventually change a nation.