Photo: © Park Joon-ho
3670
3670 is a group text code for a meet-up of a special club of friends. For Cheol-jun, a young North Korean defector building a life in Seoul, it becomes the address of a self he has never been able to show in public. By day he works part-time at a convenience store, crams for the college entrance exam, and depends on the fellow defectors who have taken him in. But there is a secret he cannot let even his closest friends know: he is gay. After a chance encounter with another gay man, he is pulled into Seoul’s queer social world: new friends and the messy thrill of wanting someone who may want someone else. Park Joon-ho’s debut keeps the melodrama low and moves with Cheol-jun’s emotional weather, as he experiences the cruelties and beauty of friendship. Kim Hyun-mok won Jeonju’s Best Actor prize for his performance, and the film won Best Film at MiX Milan among other accolades.






