Hanyo (the Housemaid)
"The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Soon Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy... Kim Ko-young's 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), is today widely regarded as one of the greatest South Korean films of all time. In this book, Youngmin Choe argues that Hanyo encapsulates the mood of social change in postwar South Korea, and explores the questions it raises about class mobility, gender oppression and women's work"--
104 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 2025 by BFI · ISBN 9781839025860
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4 editions
English
- Hanyo (the Housemaid) · BFI · 2025 · ISBN 9781839025860 This page
- Hanyŏ (the Housemaid) · BFI · 2025 · ISBN 9781839025891
- Hanyŏ (the Housemaid) · BFI · 2025 · ISBN 9781839025877
- Hanyo (The Housemaid) · BFI · 2025 · ISBN 9781839025884
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