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The Korean Dream

Name: The Korean Dream
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-04-18
Duration: 13 min

2013 · 0h 13m · Documentary

Watch this tonight if you want a sobering, humanizing look at systemic exploitation—this is the kind of unflinching documentary that sticks with you. Skip it if you need something lighter, but if you're in the mood for hard truths about migrant worker struggles, this is exactly the film to seek out.

Plot

“The Korean Dream” is about a migrant worker who sacrificed 18 years of his life in struggle to fulfill his influence in the Korean society. Likewise, the dreams of many migrant workers have ended with disappointments, the dream of main character. Therefore it’s an attempt to show how human rights have been dominated and exploited under the name of government. Furthermore, it’s about broken dreams of those migrant workers that were forced to be in exile or under detention.

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