Kang Jin-ah

Dance From Afar

2016 KBS Drama Special. One day, theater director Shin Pa-rang suddenly kills himself. He did not even leave a last will. Playwright Choi Hyun reacts calmly to his death, but she can't understand his death.

The layover

The flight scheduled to leave Incheon International Airport for New York makes an emergency landing at Gimhae Airport due to engine problems. As the passengers will take an alternative flight the following day, they are staying at a hotel provided by the airline during a layover. While staying an unscheduled night at the same hotel, they have an unexpected experience.

Like a season

This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival.

Soonyoung

Soonyoung, who has been a de facto live-in caregiver for her parents, is kicked out of the house as her brother and sister sell it, leaving nothing to the 38-year-old, youngest member of the clan. Soonyoung claims the right to her share but is ignored. She has to find a way to support herself.

Bad Scene

Jin-hong dreams of being a great actress but for the moment has to be content with running the auditions. She lands a small call girl role that requires her to shoot naked.

Cocoon

A young woman must care for her paralysed mother, but in the darkest corners of their home, the most chilling horrors start emerging…

Juhee from 5 to 7

Juhee, a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many people come to her lab out of the blue.

The Ghost

Mi-young, a mortuary cosmetologist, makes money by pulling gold teeth from dead bodies. Then one day an unidentified body was taken to the morgue.

The Final Semester

Chang-woo, a senior at a vocational high school, wants to be recognized by his mother as a good son. He starts field training at a subcontractor for a large company, hoping to solve the problems of getting into college or finding decent employment. While learning about work and human relations from his senior workers, Chang-woo finds himself siding with the non-contract staff, and fails to get into college, secure a job, or deal with the problem of his military service. However, Chang-woo eventually finds a job that he likes and develops a sense of pride in his work. He moves out of his mother’s home in search of a new life.

Wonderland

In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.

Hansel: Two School Skirts

Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder.

Kai

In the grasslands of Central Asia, a brother and sister, Kai and Shamui are running through a snow-covered mountain and being chased by wolves. Suddenly, they get swept away by a massive avalanche and only Kai gets rescued by their mother and the tribe. Shamui is lost in the icy lake of the notorious Snow Queen, Hattan.

The Queen of Crime

When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.

Ordinary Family

Su-young is a lesbian who plans to go on the first vacation with her girlfriend, Young-mi. But the day before the two leave for vacation, Su-young receives the news about her father’s hospitalization. Will she be able to safely go on the vacation with her girlfriend?

Sori: Voice from the Heart

While desperately searching for his missing daughter, Hae-kwan comes across an AI satellite robot that remembers sounds from all over the world. Rejuvenated by the robot's abilities, Hae-kwan begins to track down his daughter's voice. As they continue their journey, they form an unforgettable bond.

The Senior Class

By agreeing to keep his crush's secret, a college student becomes her friend. But things soon fall apart when she gets swept up in scandalous rumors.

The Terror Live

A newsman discovers he's been rigged with a bomb after he has an exclusive interview with a terrorist who blew up a bridge.

Microhabitat

Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.

Another Family

Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate financial circumstances, he is sorry that he cannot afford to send his daughter Yoon-mi to university like other parents. Yet, with a bright smile on her face, Yoon-mi tells her father that she will one day buy him a new car and pay college tuition fees for her younger sibling. However, less than two years after Yoon-mi begins her job at a large corporate company, she gets seriously ill and returns home. Sang-gu is heartbroken to see his young daughter in such a condition.

Master and Man

After two years of casual sex, a pair of emotionally repressed lovers abruptly part ways. But as they start new lives, memories of the past remain.

To My River

Follows a female poet dealing with the grief of the recent death of her boyfriend.

Happy Together

For the first time in her lie, Sun-woo begins to dream of ever-lasting love with her junior staff, Dae-yoon. Upon their unexpected break-up, however, she faces the uncomfortable truth that Dae-yoon was already in a long term relationship with some other girl. What did I mean to him? I want to find out his true feelings.

Buy One, Get One Free

The main character 'Du-na' is a daily worker who does sales work at the mart. One day, Du-na, who was sick, sends her cat to Mart instead. The company manager, who liked cats that sell goods better than Du-na, dismisses Du-na and hires cat. When she becomes a deadbeat, she visits the cat's mart to get revenge on the cat.

A Bad Case of the Genre Fusion

Sang-woo's mother who gives money to her to break up with Sang-woo and a woman who refuses to accept money. In the midst of the escalating debate, the two are using martial arts and the people around them are caught up in this ridiculous drama.

Too Bitter To Love

High school Seniors Mok-Lyeon and Byung-Hee have their first sexual intercourse at a cramped and non-soundproof study-room at goshiwon. While Byung-Hee is out buying snacks for Mok-Lyeon, the neighboring man enters the room where Mok-Lyeon is alone...

Full Moon

During the Chuseok holiday, married friend Dajeong visits Young who lives alone. Dajeong had a fight with her husband about which family to visit first during the holidays. Swamped with work, freelancer Young asks Dajeong to return home.

The Slug

Chunhee, who is left alone after her parents died right after IMF crisis, has been living in her mother’s childhood house ever since then. She makes a living by peeling garlics, and saves some money for the treatment for hyperhidrosis. Everything was fine until she got struck by lightning. When she comes around and gets home, she encounters herself waiting for her, to be specific, her younger self.

Vestige

Part I : A middle-aged woman gets off a bus at Muju Terminal. She passes through the town and walks into a forest. She starts to search for the vestiges of her life from beyond the grave. Part II : A young woman, Minjae, returns to her hometown of Muju and starts to work at the county office. Her mother is displeased that her daughter has returned to the hometown. One day, Minjae’s friend from college, Kyungyoon, who hadn’t been in touch for a while, comes to see her.

One-Line

A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.

Black Light

After a car accident leaves one man dead and another in a coma, it's believed that the dead man was at fault. Guilt-ridden, his wife, Hee-ju, struggles to move forward. She ends up learning that the victim had previously tried to kill himself. Suspecting the accident may have been on purpose, she begins an investigation.

Not alone

Sun-mi, who is visually impaired, moves out of her house after an argument with her mother. In order to make a living, she starts to work at a cafe run by her close friend from college. And one day, a rather quiet customer pays a visit to the cafe.

A Ray of Sunlight

Okhee is a lower-class diver in the city. One day, Eunyoung, the daughter of her late husband, comes to visit. What’s more, Kyeongsik, Okhee’s son, who is being chased by creditors, leaves his young son Junseo with them and disappears. Eunyoung wasn’t planning to stay long but misses the chance to leave due to Okhee's accident and the appearance of her step-nephew, Junseo. Eunyoung starts to live together with Okhee, but everything feels uncomfortable.

The Love of Truman

Follows three people who believe they are 'Truman', each seeking salvation through different loves and relationships.

The Mountain Between Us

Eun-ji and Mi-jung are sisters. One day, they hear that Mi-jung's groom-to-be, who disappeared after suddenly announcing their breakup, has become a monk. The sisters climb a mountain to find him.