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Hunting of Fools

1984 film by Kim Ki-young

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5945018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hunting of Fools (Korean: 바보사냥; RR: Babosanyang) is a 1984 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

Synopsis

A social drama about two men who have failed to graduate from college.

Cast

Eom Sim-jeong

Kim Seong-geun

Bae Gyu-bin

Kim In-moon

Kim Won-seop

Yoon In-Ja

No Gyeong-sin

Park Am

Kim Sung-kyom

Jang Hyeok

Notes

Bibliography

Babo sanyang (1984) at IMDb

Berry, Chris. "Hunting of Fools". The House of Kim Ki-young. Archived from the original on 2004-05-06. Retrieved 2008-01-24.

"Hunting for Idiots (Babosanyang)(1984)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-22.

Editorial summary

“Hunting of Fools” enters the record as 1984 film by Kim Ki-young. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hunting, Fools and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2004, 2008—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1984-01-01, 1984-12-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hunting, Fools and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hunting of Fools” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hunting, Fools and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5945018. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2004 and 2008.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Hunting of Fools” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.