Actress Yeom Hye-ran, who shined in the Netflix series ‘Bokssak I Got Fooled’ set in Jeju, talks about the Jeju 4.3 Incident through the film ‘My Name is’.

‘My Name is’, through the names Jeong-sun and Yeong-ok, is a work that explores how the wounds from the Jeju 4.3 Incident in 1948 revealed themselves in 1998 through the turmoil and growing pains of the democratization process in the 1980s, and how they are connected to future generations today in 2025.

It is the winning work from the 4.3 Film Scenario Contest jointly hosted by the Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation and the Jeju International Free City Development Center (JDC). Director Jung Ji-young, who directed ‘Broken Arrow’, ‘Black Money’, ‘Boys’, takes the megaphone, and Yeom Hye-ran plays the role of Jeong-sun, who holds the pain of the Jeju 4.3 Incident.

The movie began its full-scale filming schedule on the 1st with director Jung Ji-young and other production committee members paying tribute to the spirits of the 4.3 Incident at the Jeju 4.3 Peace Park. On the 2nd, they sketched a memorial ritual to be held at the 4.3 History Museum in the Jujeong Factory Detention Center, and on the 3rd, they started filming for the memorial ceremony scene after cranking in. Along with the news of cranking in, the film‘s main character Yeom Hye-ran released a video of the ‘My Name’ ‘Find the 4.3 Name’ campaign. Through the video, Yeom Hye-ran encouraged everyone to find the name of the April 3 Incident with the power of warm solidarity.

In particular, Yeom Hye-ran, who recently made waves by entering the top 10 in 39 countries as the Netflix drama ‘Cheated by a Thing’, played the role of Ae-sun’s mother, Gwang-rye, and brought tears to the eyes of viewers, is expected to establish herself as a star representing Jeju Island with her consecutive appearances in ‘My Name’.

Meanwhile, ‘My Name’ will be filmed all over Jeju Island in order to find the correct name for the Jeju April 3 Incident, leaving behind the history of distorting and defaming the victims of the martial law in Jeju 76 years ago and the Jeju April 3 Incident as a riot. Seogwipo, Hallim, Jochon, Seongsan, Daejeong, and other locations in Jeju will be the main stages, and some scenes will be filmed on movie sets around Seoul to perfectly recreate the Jeju atmosphere of 1998. Director Jeong Ji-young said, “We plan to film the 1948-49 background at Pyoseon Folk Village and capture as many of Jeju’s representative landscapes as possible with the barley fields of Oradong as the main background.”


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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