A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Production
The building IS a character — Guro-dong's rotting soul
Acting
Kim Myung-min's haunted stillness
Sound
Water everywhere — pipes, rain, tears
Director
Yoon Jong-chan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yoon Jong-chan spent months in actual Guro-dong dilapidated apartments; the building exterior was a real scheduled-for-demolition structure.
Sorum captures early-2000s Korean 'gosiwon' anxiety — cheap housing for failed dreams, where the IMF crisis generation literally lived with others' unfinished lives.
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