Asian Drama

“Baseball Girl” is a new movie created as part of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)’s advanced feature film course. It is a story about a high school girl baseball player who is going to graduate from high school and is challenging herself to enter professional baseball.

Yoon Se Ri is an heiress to a conglomerate in South Korea. One day, while paragliding, an accident caused by strong winds leads Yoon Se Ri to make an emergency landing in North Korea. There, she meets Lee Jung Hyuk, who is a North Korean army officer. He tries to protect her and hide her. Soon, Lee Jung Hyuk falls in love with Yoon Se Ri.

This drama is about entangled lives of four women, a stepmother, and daughter of a small diner and another stepmother and daughter of a nation-wide food service company, CE Group. These four women’s lives start to be entangled with a suspicious hit-and-run of a man who then is blamed for embezzlement enrages of CE Group while he in a coma from the accident. Without any money or connections, the man’s widow goes on a crusade to prove her husband’s innocence and many obstacles and hardships are encountered along her arduous journey. A suspenseful plot and a story about stepmothers and daughters bring up the rear to present a heartwarming drama to viewers.

A story about Oh Ja Ryong, a gregarious and good-natured fellow who stands up to his conniving brother-in-law, Yong Seok, who plots to steal the estate of his wife’s family. By juxtaposing Oh Ja Ryong’s pure heart and devotion to his wife with Yong Seok’s greed and superficial love towards his wife.