Do you know the Erasmus Programme? The Erasmus Programme is a European Union student exchange program. Through the program, many European students attend a European university on exchange scholarships. In the film The Spanish Apartment, Xavier, the main character, goes to Spain from France through the Erasmus Program and comes to live in an apartment where people from various cultures and different ways of thinking coexist.

The movie title The Spanish Apartment is French slang meaning a place where anything can happen and every law is violated in the chaotic state of mixed cultures. Reflecting the chaotic cultural mix-up, the characters include the liberal Italian, the clean and scrupulous German, the conservative Englishman, and the straightforward Spaniard. The apparently ill-matched characters sometimes associate with one another but sometimes fight or make a row.

The director intentionally cast multinational actors to increase the reality of the movie. At the start of the movie, each student’s character represents the stereotype of his nation. However, as the movie story goes on, the characters grow through relations with their surroundings and their experience of each different culture. In the last scene of the movie, the main character asks himself who he is, and he soon realizes that he is a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and an Englishman. Reaching such a conclusion, he discovers his many other selves made of many other countries and becomes conscious of himself.

In such a confusing situation where many countries have joined the European Union, this movie's director presents the world through young university students’ eyes and how the people admit their diversity and understand each other. The Gazette hopes for the day that South and North Korea might narrow their differences like the students in The Spanish Apartment. Koreans shouldn’t give up trying to understand the situation of the division of the Korean peninsula. They should try to understand the differences and the gap the two Koreas face.