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The new Netflix documentary about the late K-pop star features a posthumous film starring Sulli that was shot the year she died.

BUSAN, South Korea (AFP) – A new documentary featuring a late K-pop star’s final interview unveils complex truths about South Korea’s notoriously brutal music industry while highlighting her defiance of pressure to conform to societal norms. Dear Jinri, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), revolves around singing star Sulli’s last Netflix project, an unfinished film […]

The film explores the singer's lonely childhood and battles with self-perception as a woman in a world that can be intensely focused on appearance. It also spotlights the pressures of the K-pop world.

Dear Jinri is provocative portrait of late K-pop idol Sulli. When K-pop star and actress Sulli (real name: Choi Jin-ri) was found dead in her home in October 2019, the news sparked a public reckoning about the pressures of South Koreas entertainment industry and a culture of cyberbullying by a toxic and misogynistic fan base.

BUSAN, Oct 11 — A new documentary featuring a late K-pop star’s final interview unveils complex truths about South Korea’s notoriously brutal music industry while...

TV News - BUSAN, South Korea - A new documentary featuring a late K-pop star’s final interview unveils complex truths about South Korea’s notoriously brutal music industry while highlighting her defiance of pressure to conform to societal norms. Dear Jinri, which premiered at the... Read more at www.tnp.sg

Late K-pop star Sulli is the subject of Dear Jinri, the powerful new documentary by director Jung Yoon-which premiered last week at the Busan International Film Festival.

A new documentary featuring a late K-pop star's final interview unveils complex truths about South Korea's notoriously brutal music industry while highlighting her defiance of pressure to conform to societal norms.The well-documented pressures of the K-pop world are also spotlighted, with Sulli explaining how she was told her goal was to be "the highest quality product". 

This year’s Busan International Film Festival, which kicked off Oct. 4, invited a total of 269 movies -- about 90 fewer than last year due to a cut in government funding. But Asia's largest film festival continues to be a hit with the public, achieving a 90 percent seat occupancy rate as of Monday. With just days to go before the 28th edition of Asia's largest film festival comes to an end Friday, fol...