Mamasang: Remember me this way
Mamasang: Remember me this way is a 2005 independent documentary film directed by and Hye-young Cho. The film features Aunt Yang-hee, a biracial woman who works at a club in Songtan, a U.S. military base camptown near Pyeongtaek in South Korea. The film also documents an important demographic shift—the overwhelming majority of women working in camptown bars and clubs are no longer South Korean but foreign migrant women from the Philippines and Russia.
Relying on a series of intimate interviews to shed light on the lives of camptown women in Songtan, the film focuses primarily on Aunt Yang-hee, a 59 year-old woman who works as a "mamasang," a manager at a camptown club frequented by U.S soldiers stationed in South Korea. Also interviewed—anonymously with blurred faces or audio only—are a club owner and a migration labor broker as well as several migrant women who work in camptowns. The film takes place against the backdrop of escalating protests as anti-base and anti-war movements demand the withdrawal of U.S troops from South Korea as well as the withdrawal of South Korean troops from the U.S. coalition forces in the war in Iraq.
Mamasang was Il-rhan Kim's first documentary film and the start of her illustrious career as an award-winning feminist filmmaker and influential media activist. She is a founding member of the queer feminist film collective,.