A Nepalese woman mistaken as mental patient for not speaking Korean | Short Film by Park Chan-wook

'N.E.P.A.L,' a segment from the movie 'If You Were Me'
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A Nepalese woman named Chandra spends six years in a mental hospital after she was mistakenly accused of losing her mind. Tackles the human rights of foreign laborers in Korea.
N.E.P.A.L is part of the South Korean omnibus film, If You Were Me. Comprising six short films directed by six prominent Korean directors and commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, If You Were Me deals with discrimination in the country. The directors were given free rein with regards to subject and style.
Starring:
Lee Ji-hyun
Oh Dal-su
Director:
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden)
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[@s_lim7113]

she is clearly saying she is nepali the police should have contacted the immgration not metal doctor .if some korean came to nepal and couldn't speak nepali we will not state them metal. this vedio somehow annoyed me😑😠🤒

[@lahangsubba1700]

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[@Striiider]

This is what my opinion too 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kayreeves2000]

Hey man I'm also a nepali but it clearly shows that in this video that she was so scared and confused that she could speak korean but only a little bit and can speak a nepali clearly. The part where the mental grandma thinks that she was her grandchild, the doctor clearly said that the way she was speaking nepali also sounded like korean mumbling. But they couldn't understand her situation. Its partly Chandra's fault also if she had learnt the language clearly and gone this could not had happened and the guy checking the passport number was also in fault.

[@akineiar2301]

if Korean came to Nepal. all the kpop or kdrama fans will take pictures with them(jk)

[@friedsugar2701]

Video*

[@kripamallathakuri1363]

If you all read the description of this video, the short film was designed for bringing awareness. The incident with Chandra Gurung happened around 90s..during those years there weren't much Nepalese workers in Korea as there are NOW. Some of the clips were quite offensive as our own Nepalese mother was mistreated like that but LOOKING at the bright side the Directors are showcasing the incident as an awareness for us and their country too.

[@yojanasubba647]

xxtae bae yes ur right!!

[@thehypervigilant]

It's not her fault at all and that's most heartbreaking...also Koreans can't speak English. In fact they only speak Korean..and if they visit other country and can't communicate or feel anxious communicating they wouldn't be directly put inside a mental asylum for god's sake. She was tortured for 6 years 4 months without any proof!! Appalling. The korean doctors should have been jailed or fined. That's almost a decade waiting for justice.

[@mamtaghimire8756]

Exactly 👍👍👍

[@Somsherlimbu]

Looks can be decieving.

[@saritamoktan9864]

We nepalese dont treat foreigners in such bad manner as korean did in this video🙅🙅

[@jennie9579]

well no hate to anyone but some of does i am also a nepali and i hear a lot of racist shit

[@thepandabunman74]

Lmao. it's a film set to be in the 90s. Chill. And not all Nepalese are all lovey dovey. Really depends

[@manoj7288]

Yes, I've heard a lot of koreans treating Nepali in a bad way and that really a trash to hear :/

[@SuonTamang]

They treat every non Korean badly or even worst if someone is Japanese

[@foorah-ky4hv]

korean culture is basically just cruelty disguised in plastic surgery to look presentable.

[@KennyGuite]

I bet they treat her far worse than how they portrayed in the video... made by Koreans, they kinda agree they made mistakes but it's not even that bad, thinking they could've treated her way worse than they did in the video... 6 years in a mental hospital, of course, she would/can lose her sanity. I would too...

[@WemelhiuThopi]

True. This is really sad.

[@binitagurung428]

😞

[@limbunekanchi3864]

True how they considered her as a mental just not by knowing the Korean language properly..... This is so bad I worked few months in mental and I know how she felt living in between those mental . 😒

[@firstnamelastname061]

i think even now people don't know what Nepalese people actually look like. Some of us look like chinese, japanese and korean type of asians. others look like south asians like indians. and other look like filipino and indonesians. It's basically a hot pot down here.

[@Rav01508]

70% of the majority population in nepal are indo aryan group that looks like indian She is from the ethnic minority group of people in nepal that looks like east asian/asean countries

[@Madalchorr]

​@@Rav0150840 % of the total population are janajati which are mongoloids east asian looking and some are mixed of both east asian and indo aryan and they are indigenous people of nepal . 35 % are native pahari people which are called Indo-Aryan which looks indian , Pakistani and also some are little bit mix of both east asian and south asian and the rest 20% are madeshi people which looks indian and has same indian culture. So, don't bring your indian propaganda shit without knowing i bet you're indian

[@Madalchorr]

​​​​@@Rav01508 ​40 % of the total population are janajati which are mongoloids east asian looking and some are mixed of both indo aryan and east asian which are in minority and they are indigenous/native people of nepal . 35% are khas pahari hill people of nepal who are native hill people which are also called indo aryan and some pahari people also look mixed between east asian janajati in minority . And the rest 20 % are madeshi people who look total indian and follow same indian culture . So , don't bring your stupid indian propoganda shit here with half stupid knowledge. I bet you're indian .

[@Madalchorr]

​@@Rav01508​40 % of the total population are janajati which are mongoloids east asian looking and some are mixed of both indo aryan and east asian which are in minority and and they are indigenous/native people of nepal . 35% are native pahari hill people of nepal who are indo aryan and some pahari people also look mixed between east asian janajati in minority . And the rest 20 % madeshi who look total indian and follow same indian culture . So , don't bring your stupid indian propoganda shit here with half stupid knowledge. I bet you're indian .

[@Madalchorr]

​@@Rav01508​40 % of the total population are janajati which are mongoloids east asian looking and some are mixed of both indo aryan and east asian which are in minority and and they are indigenous/native people of nepal . 35% are native pahari hill people of nepal who are indo aryan and some pahari people also look mixed between east asian janajati in minority . And the rest 20 % madeshi who look total indian and follow same indian culture . So , don't bring your stupid indian propoganda here with half stupid knowledge. I bet you're indian .

[@MilaniaBieber]

How the hell did the doctor hear Thailand and Philippines when she was saying Nepal, Nepal. Is the doctor deaf?

[@sagarshrestha5800]

Kripa Joshi Shrestha I think he was teasing as she was repeating another country like japan and added other country name as a form of joke considering a mental patient. (but doctor can't understand nepali but we do)

[@lunekopak9309]

@@sagarshrestha5800 coz Nepalese look like bit south east Asian

[@sagarshrestha5800]

zee zee I think You did not get my point. Read carefully

[@lunekopak9309]

@@sagarshrestha5800 yeah I got your point bro... I know that doctor was not familiar with the country Nepal and Nepalese Mongolian look like south east Asian thats why he was guessing her identity like Thailand or Philippines...

[@sagarshrestha5800]

zee zee That's not my point. He believes that she is Korean and a mental patient who is mumbling nonsense. If he believed she was from another country, she would not have been in mental hospital taking cure for 6 years. And you might know normal people do not usually believe in mentally unstable people and avoid them.

[@sarojlangchhong7065]

She is saying Country Name Nepal but that Doctor continuously asking are u from Thailand Philippine Seriously???😎😎

[@WemelhiuThopi]

This is the complete ignorance of Koreans. They're so educated..how comes?

[@tailoplays7834]

Bishwa Mewahang Rai korean are always like this . very annoying

[@santoshrayamajhi5578]

@@tailoplays7834 yes.. 40% ppl are good... Rest are really an assho*e

[@suzankadel5484]

The worst thing is she lost her 6 years 4 months and when she finally got to come back her brother,sister are gone. Did Korean government do anything to help her find her family or gave her some compensation for this deed. And reason for all this is Korean government....

[@manjeelphago4137]

I read in nepalese paper pahila ..like they paid about 2-5 crore to her

[@sagarshrestha5800]

I think this is the awareness video that they made to show to Korean people ,there are other people who look like them. So such incident never happen again. Also according to comment thread , this incident happened on around 2000/2002 and she got to return back home in 2006.

[@sarojlangchhong7065]

I agree with u

[@twinklegurung9663]

Oh 2000 then its 75 years back . .

[@captainsnob9339]

@@twinklegurung9663 not funny!

[@twinklegurung9663]

@@captainsnob9339 huh ??

[@captainsnob9339]

@@twinklegurung9663 Ad not BC

[@zewdae8847]

Oml she was stuck in a foreign country with no one who would listen to her and no means of getting home for 6 years and 4 months???!! that's so devastating, it must've felt so suffocating being so isolated. I can't imagine anyone else could possibly understand what she went through but I'm glad this short film was made..

[@bishalgurung6133]

N - never E - ending P - peace A - and L - love 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@rocknroll8195]

Bishal Gurung lmao peace and love

[@bishalgurung6133]

ani k ho tw bro huh...

[@keepfightinggg3904]

And she also lost contact from her family members..and still see her smile at end😢😢😢Watching this makes me feel Korea is so much backward in technology and knowing about world geography😢

[@lovegod5604]

This is the most racist thing I've watched today. M not Nepali but I got offended

[@yasunarai9881]

Korea is nothing like the dramas portray them to be. How can they not find even a single translater in all those 6 nearly 7 years, you kidding me?? Did they even try??

[@dazewaker262]

Dont tell me this is real

[@WemelhiuThopi]

7 years??? Omg

[@twinklegurung9663]

May be because they dont knw word nepal cuz they have their own language for each country, like if u go to china tell them u will from nepal no one will knw until u say word nephor , but yes for 6 years its too much to find for them a single translater , unbeliveable 😟

[@m.i.b6899]

I am very positive to your say Korean havent done late for her

[@sshrrestthhha7266]

Isn't that why its called a "drama"???? Different from the real thing.

[@jgsuklover]

The nurse was definitely rude, but there are people like that and this video is trying to show that. Instead of getting offended try to understand the real meaning behind this video. We should be glad that they managed to bring her back home!

[@kq.13]

I’m just glad she was able to go back home even though it took so long (which was one of the several things that pissed me off while watching this)

[@nehashrestha3894]

How can u say Nepali sounds like Korean mental words! Wtf

[@anonymousameer6841]

😁😂😃

[@apartment213]

kinaki didi lai korean nai samjheko thiyo tini haru le suru ma ani mental haru le praya k k jpai barbarai rakxa tei vayera uniharulai ni jibberish jasto lageko ho.

[@nisgin]

Why you guys are so neagtive? actually her behaviour is abnormal. So they said that and her name also wrong in passport. instead of gurung there was gurum.

[@chalaanal6046]

Exactly lmao

[@amankc7226]

She was shy and weird that made them feel like she's was mentally unstable.

[@samananagarkoti7936]

its a really sad-full real story she suffered a lot.....6+ years !!!!!!!!!!!!. park chan wook did a great work by making this short flim.....appreciate your work !!!!!!!!from Nepal..............

[@gurungphoenix]

Umm 1.nepal korea Asian country 2.ghandruk is a gurung village in nepal 3.kathmandu and seoul are capital city. 4. gurung is family name. Like song ,kim, park Nice documentary. A case of culture and language barrier. She was rescued..Thats important.✔

[@wat502]

Phoenix Gurung My family name is magar :))))

[@gurungphoenix]

@@wat502 haha u should say my FAMILY NAME is magar. Koreans will not catch i am magar.

[@wat502]

Phoenix Gurung I’ll edit that :)))

[@gurungphoenix]

Its nt my family is magar.. I was very clear... Still u copy wrong... My Family means mero pariwar My family name means mero surname which comes from family. Magar is nt a person family.. It is also not a person name... So u have to be very clear when u say i am magar.. Because the receiver will receive...u r something but what exactly is magar? So be specific.

[@wat502]

Phoenix Gurung oml okay... I don’t rlly speak Nepali since I moved to England so I’m not every good at this. No need to go all out on me

[@peacegurung9800]

the last part she said - she lost her sister lost her mother and lost her brother . WHO is to speak for this?? .. take ur jobs responsibly ... don't just pass ur day ...

[@bnshachhetri4911]

Oh my god ! This is so heartbreaking:( Hope she is okay now and get to meet her family soon .. At last she says "don't know where did my sister , my mom and my brother go" which is really sad.

[@sundargharti8052]

Koreans may have treated her low but at least some good koreans, they helped her to return Nepal. Thank you a lot. Also visit our country Nepal, it's a birth land of lord Buddha where peace and natural beauty is extremely found. As well as it is also a heaven in earth. peoples in Nepal are angel with good hearts .🇳🇵🇰🇷..❤️

[@priyankatulachan1395]

so they want every tourists who sort of look like them to speak in korean so that they wont end up in mental hospital😑

[@asmitabegha6336]

Even after she was returned in Nepal She lost her family members 😌 I feel very bad for her

[@awesomeblossom89]

Lets not get worked up. It's a film made to create awarness about discrimination. Although she faced discrimination, Korea in the 90s was completely different than it is today. On top of that, hardly few Koreans knew about Nepal and info about Nepal was not widely available at that time so that they could get some help. I think it was ignorance rather than racism that played a major role in this situation.

[@ojashwikhatiwada9745]

i am a nepalese lemme give u the translations 0:22 no 4:43 will bring it sometime later 6:31 we nepalese tend to say "mm" like "yes" 7:23 please leave me.i am a nepalese 9:19 don't come near me . I'm scared 9:28 who are you?i ain't sun mi yae 10:11 i am a nepali, I came from kathmandu(nepal's capital) do u know annapurna,pokhara,khimche,machhapuchre,(places of nepal ) 10:37 my brother is currently in japan finding me . 10:52 I'm a nepali. it has been 2 years since I came to south korea 21:11 i am a nepali. there's no need to worry. you'll be able to meet your parents soon. arent you a nepali as well? hope this helped a little .... being a fan of kpop and dramas myself, it was really sad to see that a nepali was treated this bad at korea..

[@leyan3320]

But how come Nepalese media don't know this??

[@gopalgopalgopalgopal9356]

Here in Nepal girls get raped and killed by her rapers but its still impossible to get justice for their families. What can you expect from such country. I'm Nepali but to be honest I myself hate my country's government. They are just shame for us.

[@rinkipo6662]

Yeah coz our media sucks. They prolly busy doing fap!

[@aaryashrestha2035]

Nepali media had recognized this issue first in around 2008; particularly Pourakhi and Society of economic journalists Nepal (SEJON) had published a case study based on that incident. WYA?

[@SnehaMishra295]

This was published in 2002 in NepaliTimes archive.nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=5147#.XINnmIzBU0M

[@dohori2024]

@@gopalgopalgopalgopal9356 nepali kukur haru chadai bhukna thalchan ho.. our government is fucked up tara nepal koo journalist haru ramrai chan ho ..

[@taragurung933]

अति नै दुःख लाग्यो तर घर फर्किनु भएकोमा खुशी छु। Sadly, the mental damage cannot be cured. Thanks to the team for bringing this up for us to see.

[@cherryblossom2375]

I found this video very distressing. She lost her family within that duration of time. 6 yrs 7 months without any contact with the family members is not a small matter. Just imagine how much her family were worried about her?! Did the Korean government pay any compensation to her? How can the Korean government and the authorities be so unpractical despite of being so developed country in comparison with Nepal?? How can they throw someone into mental hospital without knowing the fact? She seems to be mentioning Nepal everytime. Some Korean also come to Nepal. They don’t speak Nepali language. Then, do we call them mental???!!! 😡

[@xuchhachuchha6599]

Sony Gurung I am agree with you...

[@weebonyoutube3847]

Imagine not finding another person who could speak her language in 6 years

[@Natasha-wc7xm]

"Nepali sounds like mumbling of a Korean mental patient" was the most racist shit I've heard in life. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean you label it as that. Also, they handled the situation in a very stupid way.They could have investigated further on her identity. They could have hired a translator to understand what she was trying to say cause she clearly must have had told them in real life too that she's a NEPALI. They could have performed some diagnosis to confirm if she was really a mentally ill person instead of just throwing her there - this has scarred her for life. Very very stupid and Racist. A well made video but totally angered the shit out of me. Struggles of a working foreigner.. really sad to know that this actually happened in real life. 😖

[@aishmagurung1210]

Now iam really hating korea this is freaking worse to see this coz she's from our country nepal

[@bheshrajrana3733]

Thankyou for such amazing words there are still gud ppl out there...feel really sad and it just doesnt happen in korea only but alll over the world 😑nepalese labour are treated this way just bcoz we are from developing country lol our government has some fault too. Soo saddened that one of our sister was treated like that😭😭

[@cosine.]

You completely missed the point of the video... When the doctor say arrogant stuff like that they are looking at the camera and are speaking directly to the audience and showing them how stubborn people can be and how schemas and predisposed ideas can affect the way they interpret things. When this happened in real life the doctors weren't actually arrogant and dickheads racist as this movie depicts them to be. They were genuinely confused. The movie intentionally makes them seem arrogant and racist to raise awareness of how pole can be mistaken. Y'all ppl just randomly hating on Koreans without realizing the context of the movie and how they are directly speaking to the audience when that act arrogant like that, it's in order to show the stubbornness in people and how the simple idea of labeling someone as mentally ill can make every action they take seem as a result of the "illness". ofcourse in real life if they knew she was a forigner they wouldn't intentionally keep her in a mental institution dispute knowing they are a forigner. If you still don't understand I'll dumb it down for you... Points: 1. They accidentally labeled her as mentally I'll 2. Every single action she takes from that point onwars seem as if is a result of the "illnesss". 3. The movie makes the doctors seem arrogant and dumb in order to deliver a message to the audience about how points 1 and 2 made above can occur anywhere and with anyone. And nor because the Korens doctors in real life we're a bunch of assholes who didn't wanna hear her side of the story, they were genuinely thinking she was I'll because of the false lable. 4. Ur probably wondering why they would do this in the movie to make them seem like assholes ? Well it's to deliver the message of how powerful "lables" can be... 5. Y'all need to stop hating on the doctors/Koreans.

[@Natasha-wc7xm]

@@cosine. You missed one point.The racist phrase. We're all well aware that this is one of the short film named "N.E.P.A.L" from "If you were me". However, these are all based of true events. You can relax. Nobody is hating the entire nation. They brought out a message for the viewers. No one said this is "Real"! for God sakes, how can my eyes function like a camera? recording events like this. 😂😂 Nevertheless thanks for your opinion. Have a great day. 🌸

[@morimori7456]

I feel bad now! She didn't even do anything wrong The way she was suffering makes me feel even worse

[@TANYA-be8kz]

i'm indian but i felt very bad for chandra can you imagine 6 years

[@Shrestha_Deepika]

'6 years in a mental hospital ' 😔😔.. Really Koreans need to go out of the drama

[@PS-mv3dq]

When she is saying Nepal so many times ,how can they say Philippines or something. 😑

[@bangpdspapito774]

i lost it when she smiled so bitterly when she talked about not knowing her mother, sister and brother's whereabouts.

[@etxcasperxsmokythecattrio4046]

What’s the point of being one of the richest countries in the world if ur social problems are the same or even worse?

[@thelow-key1202]

Oh God I was so uncomfortable watching this. But relieved that she came back safely.

[@bvkstha1283]

I feel so bad, though it was in 90's she was telling that she is a Nepali. And Korean people did understand that she wasn't from Korea. Still they treated her like that. 😢

[@anobodyfromnowhere8427]

Soo many Nepali workers are there in Korea who can speak both korean and Nepalese and they couldn't get help from a single one for that long???!!!!...they KNOW she is a Nepalese then why so?!...i can't wrap my head around these situation....am i missing out on something here?!..or are the authorities THAT dumb?!

[@angeladsherpa]

this situation happened back in the 90s, so there weren't a lot of nepalese as today.

[@samma3005]

Most of the korean people don't know about nepal. .where the country lies? Even today...I've been there four 4 yrs..

[@jamin4363]

This is so heartbreaking to see and the fact that none of them tried to even find out more abt Nepal when she said she was a Nepali. After all those years in korea with no contact with her family she doesn’t even know where they are. I hope no one ever faces this.

[@topoftheworld4134]

Are these people sick???? Wtf!!! She's clearly mentioned the words Nepal, Kathmandu and all and still people are ignoring it😡. Many Nepali tribes like gurung,magar,Rai,Sherpa share similar Mongolian face just like Koreans.....Though she couldn't understand Korean ,she had said Nepal many times.why did the police and psychologists ignore it and call her mentally ill patient??? And wtf with that lame nurse??😡 She said Nepali language sounds like Korean mental patient mumbling... Do you guys really treat foreigners that way???

[@allcrazy7285]

Respect to Korea When they were poor as fock Nepal used to send rice and other goods, and know they are really rich and have a great economy and cant sent this poor lady back to Nepal for 6 years and 4 months. There are harder cases to find and fight See said Nepal and Chandra 1000 times and sentences that weren't Korean so clues enough to search a nepali or contact the nepali embassy Or use there comments sense to realize she isn't a Korean and a big chance she is a Nepali so we send her back or take world map or stuff... And the worst of all for example if she was stuck in prison for almost 7 years we could blame the policeman But aw the whole group of korean saw her and ignored to do some searching because it will waist them time *First the polic bureau *2nd the folder seen by alot of peoples *Workers and doctors of the mental hospital * Workers and doctors of the 2nd mental hospital * Even a detective

[@PS-mv3dq]

She said ailey liyerw aauxu breaks my heart 🤧

[@aaratichhatkuli290]

Did the nurse just say nepali language sounds like korean mumbling?😶

[@shrijanamagar4212]

Mumbling of korean mental pateint rey 😏😑😑😑😑

[@JOseph-dr1mr]

Ps the cops are retarded or something. Could've at least contacted the immigration

[@anuradhathapa6243]

Yeah like wth

[@sim5123]

This is so upsetting . I wonder how she lived . How are you supposed to know the nationality of people just by looking at them.

[@ghartib]

This video really got me tight because she kept on saying she was from Nepal but they kept ignoring her. It seems so surreal that they kept her there for almost 7 years, imagine how lonely she was during those years. I’m a Nepali and I get confused for a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Filipino but ignoring what she said was very ignorant. And it’s a shame how they didn’t find a translator. Anyways I know that this was supposed to be an educational video but regardless I hope we all learned to be considering and thoughtful before we judge others of their racial identity. Peace out ✌️ Nepal 🇳🇵

[@samlu8242]

And in our country India we northeast Indians are mostly mistaken as Nepali coz we look much similar. Btw love this video and also the message. 😊

[@dcfancomics1314]

It's bcoz most of our country people are illiterate. Specially older generation. But we don't treat other people like trash. I love northeast. It will change soon. Northeast is getting famous this days. We love u ❤.

[@bishallingden294]

this is so beautiful and disturbing at the same time i am glad that legendary park chan wook made this movie and i am more glad that she came back home.

[@sonutamang]

Iam happy for her that she finally can return home safely

[@rahulpun927]

I'm from Magar tribe I'm feeling so sad about that now I'm. Very happy to see her to return Home it's really sad that she was declared as Mental patient Thank you for sharing this video Nepalese People who look exactly like Korean or Chinese These people has mongoloid feature They are Sino-Tibeto exactly look like Eastasian They're Magar, Gurung, Tamang, Sherpa, Limbu, Rai, Kirat, chepang, Lepcha, Newar

[@at6095]

yes I am Magar tribe❤

[@vishumagar4636]

Nope we don't look like them

[@anantamagar1221]

@@vishumagar4636 yes we don't look like them but we look like same

[@lunekopak9309]

@@anantamagar1221 most of Nepalese Mongolian look like south east Asian people....

[@lostsoul6012]

@@anantamagar1221 😂👏yeah not like them bt same

[@sanjayabaral5198]

This is just a carelessness of the authority..It shouldn't have taken so long to get a translator.. but the positive aspect is they helped her to meet her family.

[@someanminieminymymememe9169]

N : Never E : Ending P : peace A : And L : love

[@phungitla]

Honestly, we Asian all look the same. But it doesn't mean that we have the same nationality.

[@BelieberPrakritipoudel]

It hurts to watch this💔

[@kirti5163]

So many Nepalese are working in Korea and they can't find a single Nepalese person It's the carelessness of the people working in the embassy

[@SnehaMishra295]

It happened in 2000 and Embassy of Nepal in Korea was established in 2007. Before that, there was just a consulate of Nepal in Korea.

[@prajeenakayastha1725]

This is an awareness video and gives us the lessen that, never go to oversees without knowing their national language and English. Thank god she was able to go home🙏.

[@jpt8586]

It’s a well made short feature film depicting discrimination or rather misunderstanding of a foreigner worker abroad who are relatively foreign to the country’s culture, language and environment although their appearance may be similar to the local people. In this case, Nepalese immigrant woman working in south-Korea perhaps because of her lack of speaking Korea language which led to the problem to communicate with locals hence creating misunderstanding. Fascinating story and certainly raises awareness for the future. Utmost respect for Director Park Chan Wook for choosing this complex and controversial topic and beautifully crafting this film with his style. Big fan 🙏🙏

[@prai6210]

did they think that her brain had some sort of software to say "chandra kumari gurung" EVERY SINGLE TIME she had to say "sunmiya" ?how could they?just how?she kept insisting that she was not korean but was from nepal yet they didnt bother putting much effort to ask the nepal embassy. and everytime they asked her her name and when she repeated after the nurse (to say her name was sun mi or smth) she kept saying CHANDRA CHANDRA CHANDRA!!! CHANDRA KUMARI GURUNG.HELOOOOO did it not occur to them that she was actually saying that her name was chandra kumari gurung and not some korean name they wanted to give her.it was so frustrating to see how they kept insisting that she was sunmiya . imagine how every second mustve felt like years to her.omg 6 years and four months is such a longggggggg time keeping in mind that time passes excruciatingly slowly when one is in trouble

[@sadikshya.smg10]

this was so heartbreaking to watch. i myself felt frustrated when she couldnt express herself well. glad she finally went back home safely

[@terces-]

There are not only good people in Korea, but there are many good people than bad people.I think you need to know that. (There are many people who think Koreans are not good.So I write comment.)😭 ->my english is terrible sorry

[@shajanmagar6221]

No you guys are nice.. Its back time Love Korea frm Nepal

[@enisharai9759]

I feel so sad for her. But the thing is why did it took this long for korean gvt / related people to find her identity.

[@prai6210]

can really see the effort they made to finding her identitiy and also with the nepal embassy. tell me if im wrong but like helloooooo???? if you go to a certain country's embassy,do they not send someone who can speak their language to communicate with the troubled person especially when it is a big matter like this

[@SnehaMishra295]

It happened in 2000 and Embassy of Nepal in Korea was established in 2007. Before that, there was just a consulate of Nepal in Korea.

[@alliegurung1490]

For a minute I thought of unfollowing Korean entertainment but then again I appreciate how they got in touch of her and created this so we Nepalese and Korean could learn something. No, I cant get off kbs sbs tvn so relax ✌🏾

[@ptamrakar2243]

It is great that she finally made back home. Shit happens. I see the mistakes from both side. Sometimes the circumstances are critical and its easier misunderstanding to happen. One should learn lesson try to ammend it in any possible way and move on. I guess that's what this video is saying. Peace to all 🙂

[@pashilgrunge2187]

read about this incident wayyy back before in a local magazine... so unbelievable and scaring and she's from my village. also I recall another incident where another Gurung woman was repeatedly drugged and sex taped in Korea. but I dunno much about it since it's all hushed hushed.

[@yasunarai9881]

Is she doing fine now ?

[@pashilgrunge2187]

GrayMatter Matthews well ghandruk is a big village and we're from different area so I don't know her personally. the only connection I have with her is that one of the several women interviewed is married into our clan. I hope she is doing fine.

[@twinklegurung9663]

Hello every one , i m gurung and yes we are nepalese , so sad abt our aunt 😭😭😭

[@mamatapandey6073]

After watching this video i read an article about this incident and i was relieved to know that the director of this mental asylum was sued with the help of korean NGOs Also, though it's an old video people didn't know about Nepal back then, Hope now the koreans know more about the fellow asian countries.

[@pushpasunwar]

wow, as a Nepali girl, that's really hard to take in.

[@samikxyabts0613]

I am glad that she is return back to home 😢😢

[@cosine.]

Most people completely missed the point of the video🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. And are hating on the doctors for acting arrogant when this wasn't how things went down in real life, it's just the way the movie tries to deliver a message about how powerful labels of mental illness can be. Notice when the doctor say arrogant stuff like how Nepalese sounds like the mumbling in Korean, she was looking directly at the camera meaning she was speaking directly to the audience and showing them how stubborn people can be and how schemas and predisposed ideas can affect the way they interpret things. When this happened in real life the doctors weren't actually arrogant and dickheads racist as this movie depicts them to be. They were genuinely confused. The movie intentionally makes them seem arrogant and racist to raise awareness of how pole can be mistaken. Y'all ppl just randomly hating on Koreans without realizing the context of the movie and how they are directly speaking to the audience when that act arrogant like that, it's in order to show the stubbornness in people and how the simple idea of labeling someone as mentally ill can make every action they take seem as a result of the "illness". ofcourse in real life if they knew she was a forigner they wouldn't intentionally keep her in a mental institution dispute knowing they are a forigner. If you still don't understand I'll dumb it down for you... Points: 1. They accidentally labeled her as mentally I'll 2. Every single action she takes from that point onwars seem as if is a result of the "illnesss". 3. The movie makes the doctors seem arrogant and dumb in order to deliver a message to the audience about how points 1 and 2 made above can occur anywhere and with anyone. And nor because the Korens doctors in real life we're a bunch of assholes who didn't wanna hear her side of the story, they were genuinely thinking she was I'll because of the false lable. 4. Ur probably wondering why they would do this in the movie to make them seem like assholes ? Well it's to deliver the message of how powerful "lables" can be... 5. Y'all need to stop hating on the doctors/Koreans, the docs weren't acting like dick heads in real life the were ignorant because of labeling and yes 6. You can however hate on them for being dumbasses who never tried to actually look into the possibility that she might actually be a foreigner which is possiblity due to shitty fundings for mental institutes in Korea at the time and the government not caring much about them, hence hiring very poorly skilled doctors and nurses who weren't smart enough to think that people outside of Korea can look like them and have possibly similar sounding languages.

[@tayami8514]

Never Ending Peace And Love am really proud of that 😍

[@manabi314]

I don't know why but I feel like this film is not showing 100% her side of story. One thing for sure after this video I won't able to see Korean the same way again.

[@absolutelysid0114]

Their accent is beautiful ~♥~

[@pusparai6282]

I used to love korean just before watching this video now no more 6Years 4months is joke for u seriously n at last she told her mother sister r somewhere she doesn't know 😡😡😡

[@kabitalopchan446]

Don't hate them...Language barrier was the main cause. This incident happened almost 20 years ago. There weren't advance technologies like today. .at least they try and rescued that women which is hard for us to do in our country.

[@handwritten99]

@@kabitalopchan446 yes definitely true.....

[@sapana761]

It seems like the medications given have caused her prolonged side effects. Salute to over educated mental professionals of Korea

[@yabokun-yang6959]

Heartbreaking.. 😔 to imagine the trauma and fear she went through, day after day - being taken to unknown environment, forcefully given medications, shouted at, being forced to take up some other identity... that sense of hopelessness she must have undergone as weeks turned to months and months into years.. i only hope that she was given proper care and therapeutic sessions to cope with the trauma. Respect to her and such strength she carried in all those years of being lost.

[@nawarajshrestha7798]

I'm from Nepal

[@bimi6565]

Nawaraj Shrestha meee tooooooo

[@buddhagurung9225]

I am also from Nepal idiot, so what

[@sujata1905]

Same

[@rosamarialama1602]

It really annoyed me when they said that Nepali sounds like mumbling Korean words 😑 This is sad, annoying & funny at the same time 😂 tf

[@KennyGuite]

ikr

[@crazymangamerff174]

korean people is good . But We should understand here is big problem is language . and this movies is awareness . Thank you park chan wook . You are the great director . I have seen your movies old boy . that's also great ! We appreciated you . 🙏

[@ritankardas8251]

How can one racially discriminate a Nepali ? Being an Indian ,I personally think that just like Koreans ,most Nepalis too have very high beauty standards ,with fair skin ,beautiful mixture of South Asian and Mongolian facial features and most importantly, they have lot good moral values like the Koreans ;also,the Nepali language too sounds very cool like Korean and other South Asian languages . So,its totally pointless to racially abuse a Nepali.

[@loyaluwang4228]

Beautiful South Asia Mongolian mixture face lol

[@kingborat8696]

Calm down people, its just a 'movie'

[@dejinagurung1766]

in 2019 and living in europe when i tell people im from nepal they still dont know. so imagine in 1993? there were obviously lack of knowlegde on korean side and misunderstanding due to language barrier (both sides). but it was the korean NGO who helped her go back home, late but she did make it.

[@rinchentamang2551]

its really sad that she had to go through all that mental trauma

[@shristisingh7744]

They played the tune of famous Nepali song Resham Firiri when they showed Mt.Machapuchre... wow

[@anjali8803]

I cried watching this , *sigh! I can relate because our native Indian tribal (near Tibet and Nepal border) language and culture is so close to Nepali.

[@zonish]

🙏

[@poonamlimbu3845]

There's so much of negligence in the way they were handling her case. But what matters is that she was able to go back to her country. Hope they learned some lesson after this case.

[@taekookiemin9524]

I feel funny because I am from the Gurung Tribe and I am so glad she was able to return

[@taekookiemin9524]

Haniya Ejaz ARMY

[@hangsangboi5738]

ARMYYYYYYYSSSS

[@meowchhimagar9134]

Innocent Gurung tribe

[@ismatararoksana8088]

At some time. like 1990s the south asian people were scared of Koreans. My grandma told us stories where people were wrongly accused. Korea has changed a lot. It had financial difficulties and was controlled by armies.

[@nirajdevkota1545]

I remember me going to S Korea at the age of 14. One pastor pulled my ear up saying, "you are going to korea, is it a dream?". I was so mad and stayed quite. he was not the one funding me and had a damn nerve to even speak that way. Now I am 24 and what I see is koreans, not all but some, think themselves too superior which they should be very ashamed of. That applies to people of every nationality though!

[@gopalgopalgopalgopal9356]

Moral- Don't apply ur visa in countries like Japan,china , korea etc without learning their language coz most of them can't speak english and if we can't speak their language then it would be burden to live there.

[@twinklegurung9663]

Sai ho

[@twinklegurung9663]

Afnai des ma basera pragati garnu prxa

[@sojunghanmaoom8044]

Exactly

[@bulletengraved1399]

Except that japanese people are not like Chinese or Korean. They are warm hearted like we Nepalese

[@netprogamer1384]

Nepali language and Korean language both have different roots no fucking way they thought she was mumbling korean *facepalms*...

[@chacharrm]

this case was handled very poorly

[@LilieyhanaM]

heartbreaking .. uhh!

[@etoyoshimura5233]

Park Chan wook ! Sure watching this one

[@sungwonhasthebestsmile3818]

Its poor that until now, nepalis are lacking the sense of korean people to understand well. I feel too bad for her. I am 100 % sure that there were Nepali ambassador. Why don't they deal with them. Its ridiculous that Nepalese being thrown like a trash in other countries . I may sound like i hate foreign countries but the thing is i really gets emotional and touched to see these kind of videos or listening these kind of stories. Yes its 21st century and kpop, kdrama, kbeauty is worldwide trending thing (ps: I AM K KPOP LOVER TOO EXO-L). And every fans are crazy about that. But its tooserious that when i saw this video. I am from Gurung tribe too and i know how a gurung lady has to struggle to left the house. I am from Pokhara Nepal and i am sure that whenever i get chance to visit Ghandruk i'll definetly not forget to meet this Bajei (Grandmother). #peaceout

[@sngrg1810]

They don't know that there is a country call NEPAL she is clearly saying Nepal Nepal. Don't they study countries Names in school😌😌 😒😒

[@khusipun4486]

Omg! This is so upsetting incident. How can anyone prove as mental patient without proper research n investigations!!!!

[@umeng1111]

I feel really sad for her 😔

[@nepalimongoltiktok]

Love from Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵♥️