Film | 00:05:28 | 2026

A man works for “Yongsanam,” a service that apologizes on behalf of others. Taking on his clients’ appearances, he delivers the words they cannot bring themselves to say. One day, while carrying out an assignment, he unexpectedly comes face to face with his former lover, and the role he has mastered begins to fall apart. He has apologized for countless others, but now he must make an apology that no one else can make for him.

Sang-il Jung, an island boy who once wished the sea were land, grew up to become a mainland boy wishing the land were sea. As a child, he would borrow boxes of old videos from a relative’s video store on the mainland. He wanted to become someone who made videos. So that’s what he does.