Hello, I am the director of short animation
‘Young-suk’ and my name is Jung-in Rah.
It's been a while since I made short animation and
I came back to Indie-AniFest with it in 6 years.
I'm very glad and
pleased.
‘Young-suk’ is based on a real person
Young-suk Choi's life story.
Young-suk Choi was born in 1906
and her short life ended in 1932.
She kept on challenging continuously
during her lifetime.
I remeber the first time
when I knew about Young-suk Choi.
I was surprised that there was
a woman who lived adventurous life
with her own will
100 years ago.
In spite of her amazing accomplishment
it was the colonial period.
And most of all
by reason that she was a woman,
there was a barrier in reality,
which didn't come to me
only as a past and
it was regrettable.
And I was dazed that
she was just forgotten like that.
Furthermore, I got to know
a lot about women in those days
while working on this project.
I couldn't feel the difference of
100 years' time.
They worried about the same things
as I do now.
In some way, they were the women
ahead of time than myself.
I was very sorry and it was a burden
for me to take only a small part
out of her great life and make them
into just 9 minutes long film.
However, remembering and
talking about Young-suk Choi
made me relieve my regrettableness
just a little bit.
At Indie AniFest
which is held in hard times,
I'm not sure in what way
I'll be with the audience.
But I hope many people could see
‘Young-suk’.
I'd like to thank all the people
that I worked with in this project.
I'll look forward to other films and
wait for the festival.
Thank you very much.
