Bandhobi

Min-Seo is seventeen, a high school student who will not be told. She lives in a small flat with her mother and her mother’s penniless partner. She does not like the man and does not understand either of them. Karim is a twenty nine year old migrant worker from Bangladesh. He has to leave Korea within a month. Before he goes he is trying to find his former employer and collect the wages he was never paid. On the day the summer holiday begins, their paths cross on a bus. Out of that comes a friendship and a shared errand. The film shows a migrant worker’s search for what he is owed through the eyes of a teenager. Baek Jin-hee and Mahbub Alam appear in Shin Dong-il’s hundred and seven minute South Korean film, completed in 2009.