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"Happy End" (1999)

Seoul Selection Bookstore
Saturday at noon
After working for a bank for more than six years, Min-gi (Choe Min-sik) unexpectedly loses his job. Meanwhile, his wife Bo-ra (Jun Do-yon), head of a private English language institute for children, maintains a secret relationship with Il-bom (Ju Jin-mo), her college friend, although she still cherishes her husband and baby. Tension mounts after Seo discovers the extramarital affair between the two lovers. Although the three main characters all dream of a happy ending, the tragic love triangle leads instead to catastrophe. Like the case of "A Good Lawyer's Wife" (2003), this movie, produced four years earlier, satirizes the disintegrating family structure of today, questioning time-honored ideas of morality and the existing concept of family. This movie also features the changing roles of men and women as well as a shift in consciousness of women, who still live under a dominating patriarchal family structure. Although she has achieved success in her career and fulfilled her desires, the female protagonist Bo-ra is still unable to choose between her husband and her young, handsome lover. This movie is a portrait of a middle-income family suffering from domestic strife in addition to the post-IMF financial effects that hit Korea in the late 1990s. On DVD. Located near Anguk Station on subway line 3. Tickets: 3,000 won. Details: (02) 734-9565 or www.seoulselection.com.

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▣ Hyoja-dong Ibalsa (The President's Barber) (2004)
1:40 p.m. daily through May 25
Cine Core Theater

A simple-minded barber becomes involved in the politics of Chong Wa Dae in the 1960s and '70s. Located near Chonggak Station on subway line 1. Details: (02) 734-9539 or www.seoulselection.com.

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