I haven’t watched “Seoul Station” yet. I have it ready to watch someday though. I’ve read it’s very much like his other animated works meaning nihilistically dark and unforgiving with highly flawed anti-heroes.

I hope he gets to keep making animated films as well. He has a distinct style that’s different from most and his films could use the larger budget. However, Korean animated films with a few exceptions, have never done well in Korea.

I’m interested in what kind of film “Psychokinesis” will be. He only directed “Train to Busan,” he didn’t write it. However, he wrote the script for “Psychokinesis.” I’m curious if it will retain the edge of his animated film scripts or not.

Yeah, “R-Point” wasn’t really scary nor was it gory except for the ending, but it had some great shots and had a creepy atmosphere to mess with the audience. I didn’t think “The Host” was scary either, mostly because it had a mix of genres like dark comedy to lighten things up like most Bong Joon Ho’s films and shorts.

I did hear about Lee Chang Dong’s new film. I read the delays were caused by copyright issues so I’m glad it’s been settled. It’s been 7 years since Poetry so I’m excited to see what he has prepared and I hope the cast brings their A-game.

This wasn’t the first Korean animated film I watched, that would be “Leafie, a Hen into the Wild,” so I wasn’t too odd for me. However, the animation style of this one was quite ugly due to the low budget it had and its subject matter so it wasn’t the easiest film to watch. At least compared to the visuals of Japanese anime.

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I haven’t watched Yoo Na’s Street yet so I can’t say. However, this one is a bit of a slice of life dealing with a family and their friends in the 1960’s-1980’s Korea. The characters feel very real and it doesn’t center on chaebols, just ordinary people trying to make a living. Also deals with class divide issues. The writer is known for creating characters like this. It does have a strong female lead standing up for her siblings and taking care of them while having her own flaws. There is romance, but it’s told in a very bittersweet way.

Overall, I thought it was good but like I said, the acting could be better. Female lead is fine, but the actors playing her siblings are pretty green. It’s one of the earliest works of Kim JI Hoon and Ji Hyun Woo so their inexperience shows. The writing covers for them most of the time though since they’re well drawn out characters. It’s 30 episodes (8 episodes of childhood sections) so it’s a little shorter than Yoo Na’s Street. It was worth a watch in my opinion. I apologize for the long-winded reply.

Don’t be sorry, it wasn’t random at all. I’m not much of a book reader, but it’s too bad a lot of Korean literature is left untranslated. I know there are several Korean books translated to English like “Three Generations,” “Our Twisted Hero,” “The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong,” and a couple more, but like you said, this book series is untranslated. It’s the multi-volume epics like “Land,” “Eyes of Dawn,” and this one that aren’t translated which is a shame since I hear they are fantastic and a must-read for Koreans.