The First Time 3

Yeon-hee is an aspiring scenario writer who signs her work as Pink Band and builds a reputation on bold, adult material. Her imagination is fed by the sexual experiences of her best friend Joo-yeong, even as Yeon-hee herself has yet to have her own first time. That gap between what she writes and what she has lived gives the film its central tension. The story follows her longing for a romantic, ecstatic experience that feels unlike the scenarios she creates.

The film was made in 2019 and runs 84 minutes. It is a Korean-language production from the United States and South Korea, and it blends horror, thriller, drama and romance elements around Yeon-hee’s private life and writing. The focus stays close to her as she turns other people’s experience into material and measures her own desires against it. Joo-yeong is the key presence beside her, supplying the lived detail that fuels Yeon-hee’s work.

Set against a contemporary urban world of writing, friendship and desire, the film moves between fantasy and everyday reality. Its tone mixes erotic curiosity with unease, letting intimacy and embarrassment sit beside more unsettling emotions. The result is a story about longing, self-image and the pressure to turn private experience into something dramatic.