Marking Korea’s Day of Patriotic Martyrs (Nov. 17), Professor Seo Kyung-duk has released a multilingual short film, “Breaking the Era’s Barriers: Gisaeng Kim Hyang-hwa,” to audiences at home and abroad.
The four-minute piece was planned by Seo with support from actor Song Hye-kyo and features both Korean and English narration, helping the story travel widely online.
The film revisits the day Kim Hyang-hwa and more than 30 gisaeng performers unfurled the Taegeukgi in front of Jahye Clinic at Hwaseong Haenggung and led a powerful independence rally.
Their defiant shouts―even outside a police station―sparked similar “gisaeng protests” across the country, the video highlights.
“This is the fifth film in our series reframing the lives of lesser-known women independence activists for broader audiences, following Jeong Jeong-hwa, Yun Hee-soon, Kim Maria, and Park Cha-jeong,” Seo said.
He added, “We’ll continue releasing multilingual shorts on more women independence fighters with Song Hye-kyo, building out the series for viewers worldwide.”
The video is currently circulating on YouTube and across social platforms, and is being shared widely within Korean communities around the globe.
Over the past 14 years, Seo and Song have donated Korean-language guidebooks, Hangul signage, and relief artworks honoring independence activists to 39 historic sites worldwide.
(SBS Entertainment News | Kang Kyung-youn)