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Fanciful Train To Seoul

Director DO Minju | Producer LEE Seiyon | South Korea | 70min | Delivery Date: February 2025

Project Description

Director	DO Minju
Producer	LEE Seiyon
Production Company
Shooting Format	4K
Keyword	Local Community
Length	70min
Language	Korean
Production Country	South Korea
Contact	yellowdo61@gmail.com

Production Schedule

Pre-production	2022. 8. - 2023. 10.
Production	2023. 10. - 2024. 10.
Post-production	2024. 10. - 2025. 1.
Delivery	2025. 2.

Synopsis

We, people from outside of Seoul, have our own fanciful dreams about Seoul. Born and raised in Gwangju for 30 years, countless people’s quotes about Seoul passed by me. It still keeps me inflating my fanciful Seoul. When I was in high school, it was “There’s no point in going to college unless you’re in Seoul.” When I was in the theatre, it was my own words. “And now I’m sick and tired of the Gwangju theatre!” My fanciful Seoul has been inflated and has subsided repeatedly. But boom! finally, it explodes. I gotta go now! To Seoul where my friends were taken away! Hold on, let me visit my fanciful Seoul once before leaving. I build a fanciful train to Seoul on the theatre stage and bring people together. Gather around! For those who feel like ‘I-ALSO-NEED-TO-MOVE-TO-SEOUL’! Let’s go on a farewell trip from Gwangju! At that moment, my phone rang. It was a call from a traitor friend of mine who already moved to Seoul. “I don’t think I belong here.” Then where should I go? Now the journey to fanciful Seoul begins with the lingering feelings of people who are stuck in Gwangju and Seoul.

Director's Note

"Everyone moved to Seoul except me!" According to the statistics announced by the local government of Gwangju in 2021, the number of 38,000 youth in Gwangju leave for Seoul each year. What if I'm the only one LEFT here? Every time I'm worried about it, a fanciful life in Seoul, comes to mind. Come to think of it, whenever I imagined a better future, why did I come up with Seoul? But why did I always choose to live in Gwangju while dreaming of fanciful Seoul? Oh, how did I come to love and love Gwangju so badly! By the time I finish this film, can I stop blaming myself for not being born in Seoul? I hope this film could be another greeting to us in the past, the present, and the future, which are still weighing in Seoul and outer Seoul.

	Minju DO was born and raised in Gwangju which is her creative place to make her own thing. Until now she has worked on documentary theater sharing now-here moment with audience. Fanciful Train To Seoul is a first story that she doesn’t want it to disappear.		Seiyon LEE is interested in connecting point of own being-minority. She was in charge of assistant director and cinematography in the documentary Coming to you, the story of LGBTQ+ parents. She also worked as a producer at Dotface Media making short documentaries.
Director DO Minju		Producer LEE Seiyon

Fanciful Train To Seoul

Director DO Minju | Producer LEE Seiyon

South Korea | 70min

Delivery Date: August 2025

Project Description

Director	DO Minju
Producer	LEE Seiyon
Production Company
Shooting Format	4K
Keyword	Local Community
Length	70min
Language	Korean
Production Country	South Korea
Contact	yellowdo61@gmail.com

Production Schedule

Pre-production	2023. 4. ~ 2023. 12.
Production	2024. 1. ~ 2025. 1.
Post-production	2025. 2. ~ 2025. 7.
Delivery	2025. 8.

Synopsis

We, people from outside of Seoul, have our own fanciful dreams about Seoul. Born and raised in Gwangju for 30 years, countless people’s quotes about Seoul passed by me. It still keeps me inflating my fanciful Seoul. When I was in high school, it was “There’s no point in going to college unless you’re in Seoul.” When I was in the theatre, it was my own words. “And now I’m sick and tired of the Gwangju theatre!” My fanciful Seoul has been inflated and has subsided repeatedly. But boom! finally, it explodes. I gotta go now! To Seoul where my friends were taken away! Hold on, let me visit my fanciful Seoul once before leaving. I build a fanciful train to Seoul on the theatre stage and bring people together. Gather around! For those who feel like ‘I-ALSO-NEED-TO-MOVE-TO-SEOUL’! Let’s go on a farewell trip from Gwangju! At that moment, my phone rang. It was a call from a traitor friend of mine who already moved to Seoul. “I don’t think I belong here.” Then where should I go? Now the journey to fanciful Seoul begins with the lingering feelings of people who are stuck in Gwangju and Seoul.

Director's Note

"Everyone moved to Seoul except me!" According to the statistics announced by the local government of Gwangju in 2021, the number of 38,000 youth in Gwangju leave for Seoul each year. What if I'm the only one LEFT here? Every time I'm worried about it, a fanciful life in Seoul, comes to mind. Come to think of it, whenever I imagined a better future, why did I come up with Seoul? But why did I always choose to live in Gwangju while dreaming of fanciful Seoul? Oh, how did I come to love and love Gwangju so badly! By the time I finish this film, can I stop blaming myself for not being born in Seoul? I hope this film could be another greeting to us in the past, the present, and the future, which are still weighing in Seoul and outer Seoul.

Budget

Phase	USD	KRW	%
Looking for	102,604	130,000,000	93%
In place	7,892	10,000,000	7%
○ Broadcasting Content Promotion Foundation \| 3,946 \| 5,000,000 \| 3.5% ○ Own Investment \| 3,936 \| 5,000,000 \| 3.5%
Production budget	110,496	140,000,000	100%

*exchange rate: USD 1 = KRW 1,267.00

Director

DO Minju

Minju DO was born and raised in Gwangju which is her creative place to make her own thing. Until now she has worked on documentary theater sharing now-here moment with audience. Fanciful Train To Seoul is a first story that she doesn’t want it to disappear.

Producer

LEE Seiyon

Seiyon LEE is interested in connecting point of own being-minority. She was in charge of assistant director and cinematography in the documentary Coming to you, the story of LGBTQ+ parents. She also worked as a producer at Dotface Media making short documentaries.