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Permission to Exist (2020)
Directed by Kelley Katzenmeyer
“The quest for self-acceptance in a world that demands perfection”
Documentary · 1h 45m
In just sixty years, South Korea went from being one of the poorest countries on the Asian continent to having the 12th largest economy in the entire world. Every year, it is measured that Korean students have some of the highest test scores and a higher rate of acceptance into Ivy League schools compared to all other nations. But on the flip side, South Korea also has one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world, the highest gender pay gap of all developed countries, and the highest plastic surgery rate per capita. Always expected to receive top scores and constantly bombarded by media and messages that seem to demand nothing short of visual “perfection,” how do these individuals come to accept and learn to love themselves as they are?
Crew
- Director
- Kelley Katzenmeyer
- Writer
- Douglas Blush, Paul Stafford, Bo Yeon Kim, Jaeho Lee
- Editor
- Jae Ho Lee, Jean Rheem, Kelley Katzenmeyer, Jaeho Lee
- Producer
- Jaeho Lee, Douglas Blush, Bo Yeon Kim, Cheol-Young Kim, Kelley Katzenmeyer
Details
- Release date
- 2020-12-03
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Korean
- Countries
- South Korea, United States of America
- Production
- Indie Doorway LLC