S Korea's answer to Mother Teresa
MEET South Korean Pastor Lee Jong-rak, a man of God who doesn't think of breaking the Internet by grooming his wife into the next Psy but instead devotes his life to saving the abandoned babies of Seoul.
He's the focus of one of the most heartwarming documentaries ever made, The Drop Box - named after a contraption which the 60-year-old built in his home-church for strangers to anonymously leave their newborns in. Without it, babies used to be dumped in the cold at his doorstep.
Directed by University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts graduate Brian Ivie, the award-winning film is also a heartbreaking affair as the audience learns that Pastor Lee isn't just saving normal children left behind by mostly unwed young mothers who cannot live with the social stigma of being a single parent.
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