Laborfest: Films from Korea & Vietnam

Hello: Mr. Huh Dae-Soo (68 min.) 2008 Korea
By Jung Ho-jung and Seoul Labor News Production and Hyundai Workers Union
This dramatic film is about the Hyundai Motors workers and irregular workers in Kia Motors. As with Director Ken Loach, the workers are the stars of the film. Striking Central Cable workers in Ulsan also took part in the film as extras. The daily drama of workers who are stressed out from job insecurity, layoffs, and conflicts between regular and temporary workers makes this a searing piece of reality. Transformation and unity begins through their discussion and collaboration. Working on the assembly lines, playing football during break, having meetings at the union office and conference rooms and struggling to survive show the reality of life for Korean workers.
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Workers Dreams (50 min.) 2007 Vietnam
By Tran Phuong Thao (With English subtitles)
Thousands of young women now work in foreign owned factories in Vietnam for approximately $2 a day. This film shows the lives of these young rural women who end up in a Japanese Canon factory in the Saigon area. Hoping to make a new life with many consumer goods around them they are ground up in the capitalist system and their dreams and illusions about the new Vietnam are crushed.
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