GATEWAY KOREA FOUNDATION FILM SERIES: A TAXI DRIVER (Dir. Jang Hoon, 2017)

401 S 9th St, 65201,Columbia MO 65201

18 May, 2022

Description

The Gateway Korea Foundation, in partnership with the Asian Affairs Center at the University of Missouri, invites you to a special screening Please join us for a pre-film reception in the lobby of the Reynolds Journalism Institute on the beautiful University of Missouri campus, followed by a screening of A Taxi Driver and a post-film conversation with special guests. In this powerful true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. German reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter and KIM Sa-bok, the taxi driver who drove him to Gwangju, become caught in a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea. Seating is limited. Please reserve your seat by registering today. Please note that masks are required for this event (when not eating or drinking).