ONE of Asia’s top film festivals opened last Thursday by taking a lighthearted look at the South Korean presidency.

Jang Jin’s Good Morning President playfully examines the personal lives of three successive heads of state – a former dissident conflicted by what to do with a winning lottery ticket; a dashing young politician who juggles a kidney transplant and a standoff with North Korea; and the country’s first female leader whose husband’s real-estate investments beget a scandal that threatens the presidency and her marriage.