The Past is a Strange Country

Synopsis

On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no nuclear weapons, Yankee go home,” “U.S. sign the peace treaty with North Korea,” and “Expel American imperialists.” This took place in the midst of a public demonstration against the forced conscription of students, joined by approximately four hundred students and held at the Sinrim crossroads facing the Seoul National University main gate. The manner of their deaths, the radicalness of their slogans (they were the first overtly anti-American statements to be heard in public since the conclusion of the Korean War) deeply shocked Korean society at the time. Twenty years have since passed. The world has changed.

Main Cast

Kim Eung-soo

Interviewer/Interviewee

Age : 58 | Popularity : 3%

Jeon Ho-sik

Interviewer/Interviewee

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kim Eung-soo
Camera	Director of Photography	Jeon Ho-sik
Production	Producer	Park Ki-woong
Department	Role	Name

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