While the existing books of the Film People’s Verbal Series published by the Korean Film Archive carry the weight of records, “Lee Jang-ho vs. Bae Chang-ho” written by film critic Kim Yeong-jin, editor at Film 2.0, is reassessing the two film elders in more popular-style language and contents. Kim Yeong-jin intensively illuminates the respective film worlds and lives of directors Lee Jang-ho and Bae Chang-ho, who marked an epoch in the history of Korean cinema from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. By means of his unique and popular writing method, he shows the two directors’ dramatic film experiences and their lifetime achievements in the form of a critical biography that is written in a plain and easy-to-read style.

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