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Directed by Kim KyungMook & Caroline Key, Grace Period documents the activities of female sex workers in the Yeongdeungpo red-light district in Seoul, South Korea. This film documents how the Korean women of Yeongdeungpo band together in protest despite constant police crackdowns and the threat of permanent closure following the opening of a massive shopping complex adjacent to their workplaces. Archival footage, mostly shot by the women themselves, shows their collective efforts as they organize with other sex workers from brothels across the country. In creative and daring acts of resistance, they launch a series of demonstrations that trace a lineage to Korea's democratic union movements of the 1980s to denounce government and corporate interests, demand decriminalization, and declare their rights as workers. KyungMook Kim, one of the filmmakers, will be in attendance for to discuss the film. Organized by Caroline Kawen Ng.

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KyungMook Kim's films, ranging from short and feature to documentary, explore the precarity of the marginalized.

His films have been shown and awarded internationally, including at the Venice Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the BFI London Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum.

As a journalist and columnist, he has served on the editorial board of Korea’s only independent film magazine, Independent Film, and also as a committee member of the Association of Korean Independent Film and Video.

In 2015, he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison as a conscious objector of Korea's mandatory military conscription. He was paroled in 2016 after one year and three months of imprisonment.

More information about the filmmaker may be found below:
kyungmook.com/bio/