'My Name': A massacre, a classroom, and good intentions gone astray

In the spring of 1948, on an island now mostly associated with cherry blossoms and honeymoon suites, South Korean troops and right-wing paramilitaries began a seven-year campaign that would kill as many as 30,000 civilians, most of them rounded up on suspicion of communist sympathies. Through decades of authoritarian rule that followed, talking about it in public could get you jailed. Veteran Chung Ji-young's "My Name," which premiered at the Berlinale's Forum sidebar in February and opened in l

By The Korea Herald