Kimchi Soup, 김치찌개

This short film started as a simple concept, documenting the process of making my favorite food, Kimchi Soup, but it quietly became one of the most defining projects of my filmmaking journey. Embedded beneath the cooking footage were layers of meaning tied to culture, memory, and connection, though I did not fully understand what I was trying to say when I first picked up the camera.

Then I did what all filmmakers do: I started filming anything and everything. The breakthrough came unexpectedly, when I began filming a phone call with my mom and felt something shift. Watching that footage back, I realized the intimacy of that moment was exactly what I had been trying to capture all along. It pointed me toward what I now know is at the core of all my work, which is a deep passion for exploring interpersonal relationships within family and friendship. That unplanned phone call taught me that my strongest storytelling does not come from a fully formed idea, but from following genuine emotion and letting the story reveal itself in the process.

Roles: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Producer, Daughter

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