Director: soha
Photography: Ki-ung Park
Editing: Young-suk Seo
Music: Jaeho Chang, Yunkyung Lee

Director's Statement:
Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea is composed of three parts delivered in several long traveling shots that embrace exterior space, often visited by sudden rain and fog, and interior space cluttered by embroideries and old furniture. My concern in Koryu is to see how women of three generations in the southern part of Korea inhabit their time, space and culture in the “koryu” way. “Koryu” refers to a temporary residence in an alien land. The film also looks into the way pre-modern and modern women articulate themselves through different modes of expression. For instance, the women in Southern Kyongsang province are allowed to compose and read funeral notes for their deceased parents in Korean, because the use of Chinese is permitted only for men. This feminine form of funeral notes is called onmun chaemun (onmun is a reference to the Korean text in contrast with the Chinese text, chaemun). During the pre-modern days of the Chosun dynasty, this provided a rare and significant occasion for a woman to engage in highly sophisticated linguistic performance in Confucian culture. Avoiding a direct documentary style, this film tries to translate the semiotic into sound and mobile images.