Tragedy, betrayal and a mysterious discovery fuel a woman's vengeance for the loss of her tribe and family.

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.

2021 film directed by Hong Sang-soo

A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.

2010 film directed by Lee Chang-dong

2021 film directed by Lee Joon-ik

2014 film by Zhang Lu

《外面是夏天》是金爱烂的第四部短篇小说集，共收入七篇作品。故事中的主人公大多在经历“失去”，失去孩子，失去父亲，失去能用母语与之交流的人……金爱烂似乎有意将这种种失去之痛揉碎，均匀地分布在字里行间，让痛感不时击中读者的心。在本书中，作者依旧保持着都市生活观察员和记录员的角色，叙述平实，贴近生活。 《外面是夏天》是第四十八届东仁文学奖获奖作品，其中《沉默的未来》《您想去哪里》分别为作者赢得第三十七届李箱文学奖和第八届年轻作家奖。 作者简介 · · · · · · 金爱烂，1980年生于韩国仁川市，毕业于韩国艺术综合学校戏剧院剧作系。2002年短篇小说《不敲门的家》获得第一届大山大学文学奖，该小说又发表于2003年《创作与批评》春季号，从此开始文学活动。著有小说集《老爸，快跑》《噙满口水》《你的夏天还好吗？》，长篇小说《我的忐忑人生》（改编电影由宋慧乔、姜栋元主演）。曾获《韩国日报》文学奖、今日年轻艺术家奖、申东晔创作奖、李孝石文学奖、金裕贞文学奖、年轻作家奖、李箱文学奖、东仁文学奖等。

A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.

2010 film directed by Hong Sang-soo

2019 film by Lee Won-tae

Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.

When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creates a love triangle. While Jae-hoon pursues Soo-jung, Young-soo clashes with his crew. Yet, just as the story appears to end, it starts all over again, this time with plenty of variations.

As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the young woman each had romanced years earlier.

While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.

Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.

Hae-won, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seong-jun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Hae-won seeks out Seong-jun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Hae-won gets more agitated and Seong-jun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together.

2021 film directed by Lee Yong-ju

Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.