Friday 4 April 2008

Films in Daejon: Taxi Blues [Korea]

In Seoul, there are 70 thousand taxies including 20 thousand corporate taxies and 40 thousand private taxies threading across the city. In most cases, a taxi driver works 12 hour shifts and must complete 20 to 30 trips a day in order to take home the smallest of earnings after paying 80 to 100 dollars to the taxi company. The taxi drivers go to every nook and cranny of the city with a variety of passengers at their side or in the back seat. One summer the film maker became a taxi driver, driving one of Seoul’s 70 thousand taxies [koreanfilm.or.kr].

Director: Choi-ha Dong-ha
Year: 2005
Country: Korea
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema
Times: see program

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