Shin Yeon-sook

Birth : 1952-04-09,

Movies

Greenhouse
Moonjung is a caregiver who has a son in middle school. After getting divorced, she can’t bear to bring him to her house, a plastic greenhouse she has converted into a home. She strives to raise the necessary funds to move into a real home for her and her son.
Pascha
Mother
Is it acceptable for a forty-something woman to be in a relationship with 17-year-old boy? The idea of love between two people with such an age gap and the social exclusion that it can bring is the subject of Pascha. Gaeul is a 40-year-old screenwriter who lives with 17-year-old Joseph and their cats. The families of the two lovers cannot comprehend the relationship. Gaeul's family are especially baffled by every aspect of her life; raising a cat and living off of vegetables, let alone having a 17-year-old lover! Gaeul's family see her as the family's dirty little secret. More and more obstacles from society are placed between the lovers and their happy ever after; poverty, death, opposition against vegetarianism and the couple's pregnancy. Can a love like this survive no matter the odds in today's society?
Helpless
Park Myung-ja
A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.
Soom
The film covers the stories about disabled people. The story starts when one of the disabled women starts an affair. She ends up pregnant as a result of the affair. It portrays how the disabled girl copes with the pregnancy and the preparation for the new baby.