Today Cobain watched a very interesting Korean inspirational movie -
Director Lee Jong-bi, starring Gao Xing, Lee Seok and Park Hye-so, tells the story of three high school-graduating working women who team up to expose the company's conspiracy.
Since it is a rare Korean movie starring women, Cobain will make a digression and talk about the status of Korean women.
Here we have to mention last year's high-scoring Korean movie "Kim Ji-young, born in 1982".
There is a scene in this movie where a woman goes to the supermarket to buy something and carefully asks the owner, I am not the first customer, right?
This means that many shopkeepers are afraid that their first customer is a woman and not sell them something.
It was a naked insult.
In South Korea, women who want to work and succeed are bound to lose their families.
After entering the workplace, women's biggest goal is to become an agent, but this is already difficult to go to Qingtian.
As long as you get married and get pregnant, you can only face leaving your job, or being expelled, and you can only work part-time in some bakeries.
When you get married and come home, always have to be man-centric.
Men work overtime, they can't sleep, they have to wait for their husbands to come back;
Men drink outside after work and also have to wait for their husbands to come back before they can sleep.
If you live with your in-laws and mother-in-law, then I'm sorry, you have to take care of their big family, and your mother-in-law has been liberated because of your arrival.
When you go out with your children, you will be dismissed by others as too noisy, accuse them of disturbing the people, and call them "mother bugs".
That's why South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world!
In 2018, South Korea's fertility rate was only 0.98, which means that each woman has fewer than one child, and as of the third quarter of this year, this figure has fallen to 0.88, and the total birth rate is expected to reach a new low this year.
Well, without further ado, we talk about movies.
The story is set in South Korea in 1995, which is the period of South Korea's economic take-off, at the end of the Miracle of the Han River, when the Korean electronics company has controlled 12.1% of the world's memory chip market, but most of the groups are hereditary consortiums, and in the face of globalization, they need to be reformed.
In order to achieve globalization, the chairman of the Sanzhen Group could only hand over its electronic group to the Americans to manage.
First of all, let's introduce the three heroines, they are all employees of Sanzhen Electronics.
Zi Ying (Gao GaoXing), production management department.
Yu Na (Li Shu), marketing department.
Paul blue (Park Hye-so), accounting department.
All three have been working for the company for eight years, and although they have different personalities, they all share a common goal, that is, to become the company's agent, but as Cobain said at the beginning, it is really difficult for Korean women to succeed in the workplace.
The first thing they do every day when they come to the company is to bring coffee to the rest of the company and complain to each other.
But they are not useless.
For example, Ziying, who is familiar with computers, sorts everything in the department in an orderly manner, but can only be summoned by people.
Baolan, who once won the Olympic number competition, has super business ability, usually can complete a day's work in two hours, but now he can only sit in front of the computer to help the leader deal with false accounts.
Yu Na is even more powerful, her imagination is superior, and she can often think of very good ideas, and then because of her low education, she can't reuse them.
They have two weaknesses, one is gender, and the other is low education.
The advent of globalization is an opportunity for them.
Sanzhen Electronics decided to open an English TOEIC class, no longer treat men and women differently, and no longer consider academic qualifications, but ability-centered, as long as the TOEIC test 600 points, you can be promoted to the agent.
All three have signed up for TOEIC and are full of hope for the future.
Seeing this, if you think it is a female workplace inspirational movie, then you are wrong, it is a moral story of small ants fighting against giants in the system.
Ziying stumbled upon the company's plant discharging sewage containing phenol.
Phenol is a toxic organic compound and is an important raw material for the production of certain resins, fungicides, and preservatives.
Carcinogenic.
After discovering this matter, Ziying wrote a report and entrusted it to the juniors to submit.
This matter attracted the attention of the company, and soon took people to the scene for testing.
The result surprised Ziying, and all the values were within range.
Ziying signed an agreement on behalf of the company and the local villagers, and made very little compensation.
In the small talk with You na and Baolan, Ziying talked about this matter, found that things are not simple, and then after the precision calculation of the mathematical genius Baolan, found that the data and the scene described by Ziying did not match at all.
In a subsequent survey, they found that the data had been dropped.
The test was originally done at S University in South Korea, but the report sent was in English.
Ziying came to S University and got the original test report.
According to Ziying's analysis, the person who dropped the package report was actually the president's son, who is the current executive director of the electronics group.
This is an insurmountable magnate.
The three of them thought about their past, and then thought about the future they couldn't see, and decided to go out and do it.
They reported internally anonymously, hoping to find the culprit step by step.
This made the executive angry, but the current group president, the American Park Billy, came out to break the siege.
In the following investigation, the truth gradually came out, and there was a great reversal.
The new president, Billy Park, is behind this.
As the emission of phenol was known to the media, everyone began to condemn the Sanzhen Group, resulting in a sharp drop in stock prices, which is also the ultimate goal of Park Billy -
The Sanjin Group was acquired at a low price and sold to the Japanese.
The shareholders of the Sanzhen Group united and smashed the conspiracy.
In the end, the three heroines successfully became agents with their own efforts, and they were all very happy.
It is based on a true story from the 1990s.
The costumes and background music of the actors are very much in line with the era at that time, and the three actors are also very outstanding.
Regardless of whether the plot of playing the boss is reasonable, it is still cool to think of it as a workplace inspirational movie for women.
At the beginning, Li Xu described in detail the various unfair treatment encountered by women with low academic qualifications.
Korean women initially only cooked at home, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and there was a shortage of manpower on the front line, so some women began to work in textile factories.
In the 20th century, more and more Korean women began to work.
The reason is simple.
Low salary, obedient.
But if you get married and get pregnant, then you are embarrassed and can only leave your job.
Such a background led to the tragedy of Korean women, so the three heroines successfully counterattacked and realized their dreams is still very inspiring.
Anyway, I dried this bowl of chicken soup.