A while back, I promised the Kimchi Mama community that I would inform everyone of any developments in Korean Children entertainment that might be of interest.
Recently, I've noticed posters and commercials for "Leafie, A Hen Into the Wild." It opens July 28th, here in our little Korean city. It's a Korean animated film. The synopsis on the HanCinema website describes it as "an adventure of a hen who leaves her chicken farm to realize her dream of hatching her own egg."
Here's a trailer I found of it on youtube with English subtitles.
Apparently, it's already been shown at the Cannes and other countries have already picked it up to show in their theaters according to this 10Asia article I found while doing some research about the movie online. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's coming to America yet. Let's keep our eyes peeled. Maybe we'll get lucky. At the very least, I'm sure that sooner or later, those of us that live in majorly Korean popluated neighborhood and cities will maybe be able to find this movie at the local Korean DVD store. Ask your Korean moms, aunts and ajummahs to keep THEIR eyes peeled.
As for us, I am just bummed that we will be leaving Korea in a couple of days for the whole summer, too early to see this in the theaters here and maybe too late to see it when we get back. It might have left the theaters. But hopefully not. Hopefully because it's a rare thing for Korea to have their very own animated movie in their very own language, it'll be a long run. If it's still running in the theaters when we get back, I definitely plan on taking my kids and I'll write a review and let you guys know how it is.
- jooliyah who is truly bummed with the timing of the release of this movie because the kids saw the trailer and thought it was really cool and wanted to see it. It would have been interesting to see if they needed the subtitles or not.
