If any given person has seen Seoul on film, chances are they've seen it in a Korean blockbuster like Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, that tale of imprisonment, revenge, and elaborately plotted incest that earned Korea a not-especially-deserved reputation for "extreme cinema."
They can see much, much more of the city in last year's Bitter, Sweet, Seoul, an hour-long film made by Park Chan-wook, his brother Park Chan-kyong (together they form the filmmaking unit known as PARKing CHANce), and 141 different contributors from all walks of life who submitted their own footage of Seoul.
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