在这部活着剧情片中,Jeougcheol is a construction worker and there are his mentally ill sister and Jinyeong, a girl who has a crush on him. He tries to fix his collapsed house against all odds. The director Park Jungbum studies the internal state of characters and their behaviour with this ambitious film, to find an optimism after all.
Work, earn a salary, live off that money. This simple postulate has always been a problem for Jungchul, who works at a soybean paste factory. During the winter, he fantasizes about traveling to the Philippines in spring, where the weather is mild and life is easier. The only thing he has to do to reach his dream and leave is to achieve the soybean paste quota he promised his boss, but soon the fermentation room turns musty and black mold starts spreading from the thousands of fermented soybean lumps...
朴庭凡导演谈《活着》（上）。朴庭凡导演谈《活着》（下）。活着（韩国版）。
