For her first feature-length documentary, director Nam A-rum, who is pursuing a master's degree in documentary at the Korea National University of Arts, came up with a very ambitious film which aims at combining the family drama with the political and historical documentary, through a rather intimate perspective. Let us see how she fared.

K-Family Affairs is screening at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival

A-rum's parents were part of the 386 generation, whose political activism led to the June 1987 major protests that forced the authoritarian government to hold universal suffrage elections and implement key democratic reforms. Following the radical changes the ‘movement' forced, the two of them, eager to pass a better world to the new generation, decided to become a public servant (her father) and a feminist activist (her mother), with the former ending up working for the government and the latter for a women's emergency call center.

As time passed,...