Jo Hee-young

Merely Known as Something Else tells the story of a man who disappeared one day and the three women entangled with him for different reasons, presented with meticulous emotion and a unique format.

Horim, who is studying in London, watches a video of a strange woman on a camcorder she accidentally picked up. A few days later, she meets her ex-boyfriend Dong-hwan, his current girlfriend Kyungseo, and Yiwon, Kyungseo’s friend and the woman who appears on the video in the camcorder she picked up.

Two friends have recently broken up with their lovers. While taking a walk in a forest in Seoul, they find a bag on a bench. After some time, they travel to Gangwon-do to have their fortunes read. Someone appears out of the blue and yells that the bag is hers.

Wonyoung and Yuuki are lovers who speak different mother tongues. After meeting Yuuki, Wonyoung began learning his language, quietly making a life in Japan as a translator diligently filling the subtle gap between their words. She was the only one who could truly read Yuuki’s silence. After Wonyoung’s sudden death, Yuuki finds her writings in Korean within the untranslated voids of everyday life. In trying to translate her words, he finally confronts his own lost words and unspoken heart