Missile

When Alison Cho gets an emergency alert on her phone warning of an imminent missile attack, she calls her mom in a panic — only to struggle to explain the situation because she doesn’t know the Korean word for “missile.”

Directed by Christopher Hwisu Kim
Produced by Samantha Renshi Skinner

Director’s Bio: Christopher Hwisu Kim is a filmmaker and video producer for The New Yorker based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work has a keen focus on the Korean diaspora, exploring themes of belonging, heritage, and family through a genre lens. His screenplay E.S.L. won The Black List’s Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship in 2023.

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