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Choi Hancho

Choi Hancho is a Korean writer and director. She began her career as a broadcast writer at KBS and went on to write and direct commercial musicals and plays, staging more than twenty original productions in Korea, China and the UK. She has fronted the indie rock band JinDalRae since 2012, releasing three albums and playing some 300 live shows. She later moved into advertising, planning, co-direct…

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Die in Seoul

Die in Seoul · 2024

The everyday grind of Seoul's unnamed artists — musicians, dancers and actors who spend more hours at part-time jobs than at their art. Seon-jae, an unknown musician, holds on to work that nobody is paying him for. Shot in four days in 2014, with a lead cast drawn from an open audition of some 1,200 actors, the film was left unfinished for years after its original footage was lost; recovered later, it was finally completed in 2024.

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Die in Seoul

Die in Seoul · 2024

The everyday grind of Seoul's unnamed artists — musicians, dancers and actors who spend more hours at part-time jobs than at their art. Seon-jae, an unknown musician, holds on to work that nobody is paying him for. Shot in four days in 2014, with a lead cast drawn from an open audition of some 1,200 actors, the film was left unfinished for years after its original footage was lost; recovered later, it was finally completed in 2024.

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