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Granny Poetry Club

Granny Poetry Club

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 27, 2019

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

90%

Original Title

칠곡 가시나들

Production Companies

Indieplug, DANEW FILM

Director

Kim Jae-hwan

Description

The grannies from Chilgok memorized the multiplication table in Japanese and lived their entire lives illiterate in Korean. This was because in 1937, the Japanese Governor-General of Korea banned the usage and education of the Korean language in all schools. These grannies from Chilgok had given everything for their children's education despite the backbreaking burden and workload. Then one day a Korean school opened in their village and sparked a fire in their hearts. As they learned the Korean alphabet, they became literary ladies who see poetry in everything in the world. "Poems here. Poems there. Poems are all over the place."