Description
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Korean Ghost Stories was a popular TV series telling tales of the eerie and the uncanny. This episode took its inspiration from a legend that originated on Jeju Island, whose inhabitants claim that fishermen who vanished around Socora Rock were now in Ieodo, an empire ruled by women who didn’t allow any men to leave. The legend, it seems, was popular in the 1970s.
Teleplay auteur Choi Sangsik’s version is a melancholic tale about the joys and sorrows of common people vis-a-vis a strange utopian matriarchy. Korean Ghost Stories: Ieodo was chosen to screen alongside Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts on the suggestion of its producer-director, Jeong Jae-eun, who quotes extensively and lovingly from it. Description adapted from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. (Dir.: Choi Sangsik, Korea, 1979, 69 min., Korean with English subtitles)
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