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Social Parasites & the Oscars

By Nanda Illahi When talking about the movie that shook the world in 2019, various works will come to mind, but we definitely can’t forget to mention Parasite (2019). This Bong Joon-ho masterpiece has been creating history since day one.  Parasite (2019) is the first South Korean film to win Palme d’Or and the Golden […]

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Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982: An Insight to Women’s Life in South Korea

Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 (2019) is a film about women’s struggles as they face gender inequality in and outside the comfort of their own homes.

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Suicide: A Dialectic Relationship between the Personal and Social

This article combines a personal storytelling and the author’s reflection on academic literature that ponders around the idea of “suicide” and the agency of the person committing the act.