Han Gong ju


Han Gongju Hangul is a 2013 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Sujin, starring Chun Woohee in the title role. It was inspired by the infamous Miryang gang rape case of 2004.

The film is a comingofage story about a high school student, the titular Han Gongju, who loses her friend in a terrible gang rape incident and is pressured to leave her home and move to another school by the perpetrators parents. To escape scandal, she finds herself living in the home of her former teachers mother in a different city. After transferring to a new school, the withdrawn and traumatized Gongju keeps to herself and tries to move on from what happened. But she is befriended by Eunhee, who convinces her to join an a cappella club. When news gets out of Gongjus new hobby, a group of parents of her former classmates causes a stir. Living with a stranger and cold to her new classmates, it takes a long time for Gongjus troubled past to catch up with her, but when it does the revelation is devastating.Han Gongju was released on just over 200 screens a sizeable exposure for a Korean independent film, and through strong word of mouth, it was a hit with critics and audiences. On its opening day on April 17, 2014, approximately 10,000 people watched the film, but this increased at an unprecedented pace, crossing the 100,000 admissions mark an enormous benchmark for a Korean independent production in just nine days, which was quicker than the pace of recent indie favorites, such as Breathless 2009 indays and Bedevilled 2010 in ten. As of April 29, it reached the 150,000 audience mark, breaking the record of Jiseul 2013, which sold 140,490 tickets indays. ........

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