Lee Suk-gyung

A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.

Sukgyung Lee, 61, lives in an old municipal apartment in Seongsan-dong. The sunlight streams deep into the living room and the living room window is full of greenery from early spring to late fall, and every day, she hangs iron bars, runs along the river, and takes care of her elderly cat. Until she arrived at her current home, Lee had moved twenty-five times. It's slated for redevelopment, and she doesn't know when she'll have to leave again. At the age of 61, Lee wonders, "Where and how will I live in the future?" and begins a journey through the "paths of living place" of six women.

Picnic Cat is a social enterprise that makes and delivers lunchbox meals. It was set up eight years ago by resource-strapped youngsters and grownups to help young people who have opted out of the basic education system. From a small shop making monthly revenues of less than 10 million Korean Won in the spring of 2014, the business grew its revenue to more than 50 million Won in three years. What was happening to the folks working in Picnic Cat in those years? A Corner Shop is the story of how the individuals working in Picnic Cat oscillated between livelihood and humanhood as their shop grew up with them.

A drunken man and a woman battered by her husband, and her husband gather and make a fuss in the police substation. A young policeman who just broke up with his girlfriend cannot afford to listen to the drunken man. A middle-aged policeman is confused while inquiring the battered wife and her husband who can't understand why his wife left him. The police substation is lit up like a lighthouse at the corner of the city people are confined in, and the wave of the people's episodes flows like a river.