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She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (dir. Kim So-young, 1989), a short film about gender discrimination at work, and My Children (dir. Doe Sung-hee, 1990), a documentary film about childcare in a poor neighborhood. Her first documentary Women Being in Asia (1993) centers on the sex trade in Asia, particularly the sex tourism of Jeju Island.
Filmography
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2025
Queen Mantis
TV show Director
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2024
Black Out
TV show Director
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2022
Behind Every Star
TV show Self
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2022
역습: 팩추얼 웹툰 창작단
TV show Self
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2021
While you are tempted
TV show
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2019
Modern Korea
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2018
Movie Room
TV show Self
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2012
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Movie Self
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2012
Helpless
Movie Director
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2007
Women Behind the Camera
Movie Self
- 2007
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2004
Flying Boys
Movie Director
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2004
Repatriation
Movie Director of Photography
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2002
Ardor
Movie Screenplay
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2002
Keeping the Vision Alive
Movie Herself
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2001
The Jang Sun-woo Variations
Movie Self
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2000
My Own Breathing
Movie Director
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1997
Habitual Sadness
Movie Director
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1995
The Murmuring
Movie Director
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1993
A Woman Being in Asia
Movie Editor
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1989
Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name
Movie Screenplay
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A Mark Against Thee
Movie Director