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I must say, “Peppermint Candy is one of the best Korean movies ever made.” What makes me confident about my statement is its perfectly organized story, the adequate usage of symbols, and reflection of social thoughts throughout one common person’s path through life. This movie starts from what ‘Youngho’ (main character) is now, a penniless bum, full of extreme regret and feeling the bitterness of disillusionment towards himself. To what he was, an unsophisticated human being under the condition of this question, “ What ruined his life like this?” This is a really unique form for a movie, a time-reverse form. Each episode has its own complete theme, and Seven episodes are perfectly combined with the scene of “reverse-movement of a train”: this short scene is not only a new try in combining two sequences but also the allusion of cause and effect of his life. This movie also has many good symbols as well as its scrupulous organization. From ‘the reverse moved train-adversity of his life’ to ‘peppermint candy-his first love’, all symbols have their own logical completion and vitality. Moreover, as the movie goes from the present to the past, Youngho’s jobs are shown differently. Every job in each p