The Possibilities of the Unseen: In Conversation with Lee Chang-dong
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Lee Chang-dong. When I first met Lee Chang-dong in person, in April 2025, he was already waiting for me at his office in Seoul’s Mapo District. He sat hunched over his notes, reviewing the questions I had sent him in advance. After a moment of small talk, he looked up at me, his expression suddenly serious. “How long do you want to talk?” he asked. I thought two hours would be enough. “Not enough,” he replied. We talked for nearly four hours, with a large Secret Sunshine (2007) poster looming behind us. Our conversation took place in Seoul ahead of a retrospective of Lee’s work at Poland’s New
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