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• Information

  Dongryung Kim | 2009 | 90min

• Synopsis

  American alley is the name of a small village next to US second Infantry in Dongducheon area. Since Korean war, there were thousands of desperate Korean women who served the US soldiers to survive during the hard time after the war. But nowadays, there are women from Russia and Philippines working as 'entertainers' in the GI clubs. Some of the migrant women who work in the clubs choose to marry with the U.S soldiers, and some get abandoned, some go to the States with her husband, and some get deported. Old korean women who still lives in this area talks about her past life infrequently, while young migrant women continue the similar life path by marrying, divorcing, and standing alone.

• Director’s note

  The history of 'Kijichon', or US military camp town in South Korea, has been repeated over since the Korean war. <American Alley> is a documentary that portrays women in this village, where old Korean women and new migrant workers from Russia and Philippines are struggling to survive. They seem to live in a different time-space, but their lives resemble each other very much.

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