Soon-rye Yim

The Athens Olympics are approaching and Korea is looking for gold in every sport. Korean women in particular have done well in almost areas except for the ignored and looked down upon sport of Team Handball. And when the team is assembled, it doesn't look when the players who show up are women in their 30s ad teens with piercing. Can this oddball group overcome their personal differences and hardships and somehow come together as a team? (kmdb.or.kr)

The movie contains 6 stories about human rights.

Jang-hwan Lee receives widespread acclaim and media attention after successfully cloning human embryo stem cells. A TV news program PD, Min-cheol Yoon receives a phone call from an anonymous source. The anonymous source is Min-ho Shim, who has done stem cell research with Lee in the past. Min-ho blows the whistle on Jang-hwan's work. Results were fabricated along with other unethical practices. Min-cheol believes Min-ho and decides to take his story public. (AsianWiki)

In the days before karaoke, the members of a band which started out playing high-school hops have parlayed those beginnings into a career of sorts touring the rock-cabaret circuit. Now the band, down to a trio, is reaching the end of the line. They find themselves with a residency at the Waikiki Club in the town where it all began (Suanbo, a once fashionable hot-spring resort) and where Sung-Woo, the only founding-member left, faces constant reminders of the idealistic kid he used to be.

Hye-won gets tired of her difficult life in the city and moves back to her hometown in the countryside. There, she heals her emotional wounds with the help of her long-time friends, nature and food. (asianwiki.com)

Three young men face the university entrance exams upon which their economic and social fates depend. Kim Tae-Moo is a comic book artist whose art is plagiarized even as he's humiliated at school, at work, and then in the army. Cho Sein, plagued by a drunken father, wants to be a hairdresser and is the victim of gay bashing and chicken hawks. The overweight, phlegmatic, and cowardly Kong Seungho lives to eat and watch videos. (BIFF)

A Korean diplomat is dispatched to Afghanistan when a group of South Korean tourists is taken hostage by the Taliban. When all measures fail and one hostage is killed, he is forced to team up with a special agent to rescue the survivors.