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Why Do I Want to Be A Boxing Referee?

New Korean Cinema 2001 / Nanun Weh Gwontu Seempan E Doeryo Hanun Ga / South Korea 2000

Synopsis

Nine-year-old Jin Soo is none too thrilled with his mother’s husband, a dull bloke he’s not been able to stand since he was born – that can’t be his father! Jin wants to get into the ring as a referee and feels he’s inherited his hot blood from a boxer. That’s why he’s always watching his mother’s former beaus. But his mother has an even deeper secret.

About the film

18 min / Black & white, 35 mm

Director Choe Ik Hwan / Screenplay Choe Ik Hwan / Dir. of Photography Kim Yong Heung / Music Song Jae Won VDA / Editor Kim Sun Min / Producer Kim Song Hyun / Cast Cho Joong Hui, Park Joo Hee, Park Won Sang, Park Dong Been, Kong Hyung Jin, Kim Soo Ro

About the director

Choe Ik Hwan (b. 1970) studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, at university in Seoul and at the Korean Film Academy. Prior to Why Do I Want to Be a Boxing Referee?, he made, among others, The Sound of Heaven and Earth (1994) and The Evidence That We’re Alive (1996), screened at the festival of short films in Seoul.