The Korean Wedding Chest

Year: 2009

Runtime: 82 mins

Language: German

Documentary

Ulrike Ottinger blends ethnography, vivid tableaux and baroque vignettes to examine Korean wedding chests and the customs they embody. The film follows love and marriage from ancient rituals with shamans, temples and priests to modern Seoul’s high‑tech salons, herbal vendors and secular marriage halls. Presented as a modern fairytale, it juxtaposes mythic heroes, ancestral symbols and Western kitsch, offering a lyrical portrait of South Korea’s evolving rites.

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