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.
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.