How To Fall in Love in a Brothel. Set in 1960 Incheon, South Korea. As a young country is struggling through rebuilding after the Korean War, two young Koreans struggling to find their place in a hard world, find love in an unexpected and unlikely setting. Showing what is possible in life when two people happen to cross paths.
Sunhui Chang was born in Korea and grew up on the island of Guam, where he fell in love with the movies at weekly double features—and with food in the kitchen of his mother’s restaurant. He started writing while studying Sociology at UC Berkeley. After the university, he focused on his passion for food and the culinary arts, as a journeyman cook. He then started his own boutique catering business, and later became the Chef and Owner of an award-winning restaurant—FuseBOX—in Oakland, CA. He was also the Media and Communications Strategist for University of California’s Immigrant Legal Services Center, which provided immigrant legal services to all students and their families. He is now focusing on his writing and film making.
How to Fall in Love in a Brothel is his first film. It is a short excerpt from a longer script for a miniseries that tells the story of a Korean family’s immigration to Guam. He is currently working on a second installment of a planned three-part series.
I have always been in love with the power of a good story in whatever form it may take. Being able to tell the story of How To Fall in Love in a Brothel on film was a growing experience of learning how to communicate my story through the magic of moving picture frames. As a Korean American that straddles both worlds, How To Fall in Love in a Brothel is the telling of a neglected but important fabric that weaves the history of the Korean diaspora and the history of American immigration.