Kim Gun Kang Sang woo, 2018

Kimgun begins with a photo of an armed young man taken during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and the ensuing Massacre. 35 years later, the identity of the man has become a source of controversy: exarmy official Jee Manwon claims the man is one of the North Korean special agents whose mission was to instigate antigovernment violence. Outraged survivors consider legal actions against Jee for defamation and hate speech, but fail to find any witnesses who remember the man. It is when Joo Ok, a 56yearold laundry woman, sees the photo and recognizes the face that things begin to change. Joo remembers him as Kimgun, a homeless man who collected scraps on the street and slept under a local bridge. Starting from Joo s memory of the man, the documentary sets out in search of the missing young man.