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Here Comes Uncle Joe

Smiles, loves, and tears are shared between 800 old people in 15 remote villages in South Korea, and the only deliveryman, Uncle Joe, who connects them with the modern world.

Series

Global Voices

Premiere Date

August 31, 2014

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Wooyoung Choi

Director

Wooyoung Choi is a freelance director in Korea. He directed his first 60-minute documentary, Soul Performance Gut, supported by KBI in 2007. In 2008, his documentary, Searching for the Legendary Gigantic Fish (KBS), was nominated as the best Wednesday Special Documentary on KBS. Other highlights include the documentary series, Report in Sam-dong Elementary School for 180 Days.

Sinae Ha

Director/Producer

With a B.A specializing in television production and journalism, and an M.S. from the Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Sinae Ha worked as a director in television production. She directed her first television program, Top Secret (KBS1) in 2008 and a short narrative film, Faceless, produced at the New York Film Academy in 2009.