On November 30, the Undergraduate Student Council held a film festival with the title “Chungo-Movie” at the N4 building from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. during which five Korean short movies were aired on screen and participants were provided with fare-free popcorn and soda. “In autumn, the sky is high and movies are abundant,” claims the Student Council.

The festival opened with Goodnight (Jo-eun Bam Dweseyo in Korean). In the film, Dojin, the main character, walks into a bar and starts telling his one-in-a-hundred story of how he has not slept in ten years. The film starts off lightly with humor, but soon Dojin’s need to sleep by “buying” sleep via shady dealings quickly darkens the atmosphere. Although the film may be enjoyed at face value, it is also a satire on parts of modern Korean culture, where sleep is regarded as a waste of time. However, as the quote from the movie goes, “Time awake is gold, then time asleep is… diamond.”

Platonic Punch Banana and The Lucky Gumboy are much lighter films. The prior is a comic account of a masochistic, homosexual man of when he first discovers his sexual identity; the latter is a story of how a bullied boy befriends a mentally disabled newcomer, which changes their lives through supermassive bubble gum balloons.

Penultimate, The Perfect Sea-Bream Dish portrays a chef’s efforts to create the perfect meal. However, the chef disfigures himself in a painful process and takes literally years to finish the dish, at which point the customer had already starved to death. Filmed without words, the piece expresses its point powerfully: ideality may not be what it is worth.

Closing the night, The Strange Voyager decorated the finale. As if trying to deliver the lingering emotions of the festival, the screen showed a man losing his home. A place where he grew up, a place with countless memories, a place where he had met his friends and love was being torn down to become replaced with new, refurbished buildings. The director’s message was that “Just like the fictional Voyager 201 lost in space, today we wander aimlessly not just physically, but emotionally.”