EQUIPThe Verge · 3h ago
Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera
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Director Lee Chang Dong's new film, Possible Love, explores the consequences of a mass corporate layoff involving 2,600 Korean conglomerate employees. The production examines the intersection of labor ethics and socioeconomic class through a narrative based on true events from 2009.
- 01Film focuses on a historical Korean conglomerate layoff affecting over one-third of the workforce
- 02Narrative explores the severe psychological and social impacts following large-scale corporate downsizing
- 03Project continues Lee's career-long investigation into labor relations and systemic class disparities
- 04Strategic insight provided into the human and ethical costs associated with mass termination events
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Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, Possible Love, is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. Possible Love is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor […]