The now disbanded Bamseom Pirates consisted of two members: drummer (self-proclaimed) "mastermind" Kwon Yong-man, and bass player "informant/minion" Jang Sung-gun. The duo sometimes referred to their music as "grindcore" but more often self-deprecatingly described it as "just garbage and noise". With provocative “songs” like "All Hail Kim Jong-il" (not an ode to the leader of North Korea), or "Fuck Rhee Syngman" (the first president of South Korea), their music is half poetic, half nonsense, and mostly grunted lyrics. Photographer Park Jung-geun produced the band’s debut album, Seoul Inferno in 2010. As well as weird, iconoclastic performances in abandoned buildings and at various demonstrations, Bamseom Pirates has invented a unique form of participatory political theater. On September 21, 2011, Park was arrested for violating the National Security Law after tweeting messages like "Kim Jong-il Car Sex!". These three men are coming to New York... if Homeland Security lets them!

Seoul-born Jung Yoon-suk studied documentary filmmaking at the Korean National University of the Arts. In his documentaries, he asks critical questions about the South Korean state. His first feature, Non-Fiction Diary, turned an exploration of an infamous real-life 1990s murder into an analysis of stumbling faith in Korean society. In Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno, his focus is two punk musicians who use music to resist the Korean establishment - "hypocritical, conservative money-grabbers and their often violent hold on society." While filming, band member Park Jung-geun was arrested for violating the National Security Law when he posted positive messages about North Korea online. "If it's not criminals, then the South Korean elite will always find another enemy," says Jung Yoon-suk. "When all else fails, then it is the North Koreans. Capitalist society in South Korea is closely bound up with nationalism. You cannot criticize or oppose one without the other.