Directed by Tae-hwa Eom
Written by Tae-hwa Eom, Lee Shin-ji, Kim Soong-nyung

Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul. (IMDB)

Concrete Utopia opens with a series of images and voiceovers proclaiming the wonders of high-rise living; the ultimate social community revolving around a “concrete utopia.” Before the viewer has a chance to consider whether this is a good or bad thing, the mother of all earthquakes ravages the landscape and razes this paradise to the ground, leaving just one apartment building standing in the centre of all the devastation. This building becomes the new “concrete utopia”, an oasis in the middle of a desert of rubble, dust, and death as the residents band together to rebuild a functioning society out of all the chaos.

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