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    Before the Summer Passes Away

    SUNG Ji-hye 2006 Korea Fiction color 78min Korean DCP
    29-year-old So-yeon returns to Seoul from Paris for the summer. She drags her luggage to Busan in the south to see divorced diplomat Min-hwan. In France, they had been lovers, but back in Korea he only expresses ambivalence towards her. Meanwhile, she has won the affections of another man, Jae-hyun.

    Director

    SUNG Ji-hye

    SUNG Ji-hye was born in Seoul in 1964. She studied both anthropology and journalism before graduating from the Korean Film Academy in 1993. She worked with directors Park Kwang-su and Lee Hyun-seung before moving to Paris to study. She returned to Seoul to teach at the Korean Film Academy and direct her first feature film.

    SUNG Ji-hye

    Producer/ HWANG Yoon-jung

    Director/ SUNG Ji-hae

    Screenplay/ SUNG Ji-hae

    Cinematorgrapher/ JAE Chang-kyu

    Editor/ LEE Eun-soo

    Sound/ KIM Byung-chul

    Music/ CHOI Yong-rak

    Cast/ LEE Hyun-woo, MIM Bo-kyung, KWON Min

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