Ambassador of Korea Dr Suh Dong-gu Friday said that he wants to put more emphasis on the cultural exchanges, terming it a key catalyst in promotion of mutual understanding between the people of Pakistan and Korea. In his remarks on the occasion of screening of a Korean movie at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), the ambassador said, "I want to express my deep gratitude to the PNCA and other institutions for all the support and assistance to the cause of bilateral cultural exchanges between two great nations."
Talking about the Korean movie "How to Steal a Dog," the ambassador said this was not a traditional Korean movie, but a Korean adaptation of a famous book by Barbara O'Connor with the same title. He said the book won seven national and international awards as well as more than 20 state awards in the United States. The Korean movie itself had also won three international awards.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea hosted an annual film festival on Friday to promote the cultural interaction and strengthen the people-to-people contacts between Pakistanis and Koreans. This year, the Embassy of Korea with the support of the Korea Foundation and the Pakistan National Council of Arts has arranged the screening of the special movie. According to the plot of movie, 10-year-old Ji-so lives in a van with her mother Jeong-hyeon and younger brother Ji-seok. Her father disappeared after their pizza business went bankrupt. When she sees a missing dog poster with a five hundred dollars reward, Ji-so naively believes that that amount of money would be enough to buy her family a house. So she hatches a plan with her friend Chae-rang to find a dog with a rich owner, steal it, then return the dog by pretending to have found it and get the reward. Their target is Wolly, the dog of an old rich lady who owns the restaurant where Ji-so's mom works. While undertaking their "perfect" plan, they befriend Dae-po, a homeless man living in the abandoned building, where they stash the dog. But someone else is after Wolly: Soo-young, the old lady's nephew, who'll stop at nothing to gain his aunt's inheritance.