Hannah Kang Wolter, East Asia Editor 21/02/2023 Hannah Kang Wolter, East Asia Editor 21/02/2023

The Enduring Bitterness of Peppermint Candy (II): The Minefield of South-Korea’s Gender Wars

In the second instalment of her reflections on Peppermint Candy, Hannah Kang Wolter considers how we might apply the lessons of Lee Chang Dong’s film to the fraught landscape of South Korea’s gender politics.

Hannah Kang Wolter, East Asia Editor 27/10/2022 Hannah Kang Wolter, East Asia Editor 27/10/2022

The Enduring Bitterness of Peppermint Candy (I)

In this two-part article, Hannah Kang Wolter reviews Lee Chang Dong’s Peppermint Candy (2000), a masterful tale of disillusionment and loss of innocence told in reverse chronology.