The Land of Morning Calm

A fisherman disappears at sea. The captain falsely reports his fall, triggering his wife’s collapse and his mother’s search. Villagers eye the wife’s insurance payout. The fisherman planned to escape with his mother using this money, but his mother ties him to the sea. Frustrated, the captain decides to end it all.

Korea, once called “The Land of Morning Calm”, is now a cultural superpower but also holds the world’s highest suicide and lowest birth rates. Exploring the paradox of a nation where people quietly vanish, this film looks closely at the lives within a small, declining fishing village, seeking answers in a place left behind by progress.​​

[Park Ri-woong, Director​]