Writer/Director YI OK-SEOP - "Maggie" Writer EOM YU-NA - "A Taxi Driver" Writer/Director KIM BORA - "House of Hummingbird"

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A catfish, for which the Korean word is megi, swims in the ocean
"Maggie" (2018, and sometimes transliterated as "Megi," which is Korean for "catfish") by writer/director Yi Ok-seop touches on some of Korea's headline-making social issues these days, such as unemployment, real estate and city redevelopment, and spy-cam porn. It's told through the lens of Yoon-young, a young nurse, as she navigates her job, her relationship, her living situation, and just life overall as a young Korean adult. Leading lady Lee Joo-young and her on-screen boyfriend, Koo Kyo-hwan, will also force some guttural laughs out of you at the most seemingly random times. It won three awards at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival: