MotherMOTHER follows labor activist Lee So seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers rights in South Korea. A courageous, yet humble woman, Lees activism began the day her son, iconic labor activist Chun Tae il, died in November 1970. South Koreas rapid industrialization under the Park Chung hee dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s modernized the country at the cost of workers lives. Laborers experienced inhumane working conditions, including 16 hour