The Seoul Guardians

Section: What's Up, Doc?
Director: Jong-woo Kim, Shin-wan Kim, Chul-young Cho
Duration: 1h 10m
Country: Korea, Republic of
Language: ko
Year: 2026

On December 3rd, 2024, in Seoul, the President declares martial law in an attempt to overcome a political crisis. As troops advance toward the National Assembly, citizens rush to block them while lawmakers break through police barricades to vote against the decree. The confrontation unfolds into a powerful civic resistance against military control, echoing the Gwangju Democratic Uprising 45 years earlier, one of the deepest traumas in South Korea’s history.