69-year-old transgender woman's life story meets director who wanted to listen

"People call me first generation only because they don't know. I'm actually not," said Saekja, 69, who is often described as one of Korea's first-generation transgender people, in an interview in Seoul on Sept. 30. There were others before her, she said, who wore makeup and entertained customers long before Seoul had bars that openly catered to them. "There were people before me, but back then there were no bars," she said. "They wore makeup, but there were no bars with signboards." Instead, the