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#NextSohee is based on the 2016 suicide of Hong Soo-yeon, who plunged to her death in an icy reservoir after four months of harassment and #wagetheft working at LB Hunet, a #callcenter #subcontractors of LG U+, the telecom unit of the #LG home appliances conglomerate.

https://portside.org/2025-12-09/next-sohee-korean-cinema-its-bleak-and-brilliant-best

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Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Not so long ago, K-movies and TV dramas were considered cool, even thought-provoking. That was before their breakthrough into the global mainstream, when ideas were typed into laptops in corner coffeehouses in Seoul by young directors and writers, rather than processed as if they were spreadsheet entries by CFOs or CFAs in cushy offices in Hollywood.

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‘Squid Game’ Star’s Cannes Closer ‘Next Sohee’ Nabbed for North American Release in Deal Unveiled at Hong Kong FilMart (EXCLUSIVE)
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https://variety.com/2025/film/news/squid-game-star-next-sohee-north-american-release-1236335141/

'Squid Game' Star's 'Next Sohee' Sets North American Release

July Jung's charged drama-thriller 'Next Sohee' will make its lstateside theatrical debut this May, following an international festival run.

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2023 Film of the Year: Next Sohee. Solidly miles ahead of any other films this year. Probably the only media of the year where I don't have to agonise about multiple contenders.

Next Sohee excels at the sense of suffocation. There are no magical solutions. It's hazy, it's unfocused, and it's never meant to be. It's about death by million paper cuts, yet also when it's a public safety crisis. There won't be magical solutions, and there will be many many Sohees before any changes takes place, if ever.

(____ Of The Year is based on the year I first had access to it, NOT based on the year of release).

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My dream genre is modern aromantic gothic flavoured honkaku mystery preferably set in somewhere that isn't US. It seems like my taste is more "feel" based than genre based.

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I especially loved the pace. It's tempting to do a Hollywood and cut this film down to an hour. The plot wouldn't changed, but the delivery of this slow suffocation would've suffered.

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Next Sohee is fantastic, albeit really really depressing film. It intentionally had no exposition in the beginning: as audience it wants you to ask, why didn't she do this or that or that; and the second half it explained on just how oppressive and hopeless the situation is.

Spoiler warning: it ended with absolute no hope and no justice. Which imo is necessary, because there are no solutions to a societal cancer that is past the point of help.

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