The more a person is educated, the less that person can follow direction.

This is the point Korean director Yoon Jong-bin wanted to make with his 2004 film, “The Unforgiven.”

Yoon’s film was the first of five shown for the Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea at Boardman’s Art Theatre. Yoon is on a campus tour to promote his film and his first university visit was to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The crowd that showed up for his film was about 300 people, compared to his audience in Korea was very small.

“It wasn’t very known in Korea at first.” Yoon said, ” (About) 100,000 people watched the movie.”

People who had military background could relate and those with no military experience were learning how soldier’s life was like in Korea, according to Yoon.

After his freshman year in college, Yoon went into the Special Forces for two years and two months. The film was based off of Yoon’s personal experience in the Korean military. Before filming, Yoon talked to many people, he wanted to portray typical characters in his film.

Korea requires all Korean citizens to serve in the military – no matter if they live in the country or not.

All Korean males born of both Korean parents, and are between the ages of 18 and 35 are subjected to the Korean military obligations. A Korean male must serve in the Korean army according to the Korean Military Service Laws mandated by the South Korean Constitution.

“Korean males born of mixed race are not allowed to serve in the Korean Military,” Yoon said. “I think the military should change.”

This spring, the Korean Military Service Laws changed to incorporate any male of mixed race whose father was non-Korean to serve in the Korean military. But Yoon doesn’t think this will change anything.

Yoon filmed “The Unforgiven” for his graduate project while at Seoul Chung-Ang.

“I filmed in three days in army area” Yoon said.

He went onto say that the film was not to be taken seriously since a little of it was fabricated.

After people are discharged from the military, normally they don’t get together to reminisce. So when Yoon met his commanding officer after the military he was surprised.

“Senior in my unit who was of common providence of rural area, when I met him outside of the military he wasn’t so great,” Yoon said.

Yoon came after the film for a question and answer section with Jin-hee Lee, Eastern’s assistant professor of history, because he did not want to watch his film again. His audience dwindled down to about 100 audience members; however, throughout the session the crowd began to get smaller. As some people sat in awe during the session, others were not so intrigued and showed this by staring at the ceiling. People began to whisper in the seats and several groups left during different times.

Questioners came slowly to the microphones at first. There was some trouble in translating the question from the audience member due to the length of the question or not knowing exactly what the question was. Some questioners asked their questions in Korean making it easier for Yoon to understand. Questions ranged from what is the dark side of the army to favorite movie directors.

Kennie Bae, senior physics major, asked about Yoon’s plans for the future.

He replied he’s thinking about emphasizing pleasure in his next project.