Mai Ratima (2012)

Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her Korean Dream. Into their relationship comes Young-jin, a hostess, slowly turning it into a love triangle.

• homelessness
• ill mother
• illegal immigration
• immigration
• poverty
• prostitution
• rape attempt
• seoul
• sexual harassment
• south korea
• thailand
• theft