This is the first title of the Blu-ray Collection released by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), which has produced approximately 80 DVDs. The Housemaid is the major work of Kim Ki-young, who is renowned as the most creative director in the world. This film was recently deemed one of the best Korean films of all time in a 2013 KOFA poll of the top 100 Korean films, featuring in a three-way tie for first place with Yu Hyun-mok’s The Aimless Bullet (1961) and Ha Gil-jong’s The March of Fools (1975).
 
The World Cinema Foundation headed by Martin Scorsese participated in the remastering of this film in 2008 and helped The Housemaid become a global masterpiece. The digitally restored movie was invited to the classic section of the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival, and was re-released for the first time in Korea as a classic Korean movie in 2010 when its remake film The Housemaid directed by Im Sang-soo was released. Furthermore, the movie premiered in some theaters in France in 2012 and was released on Blu-ray in the prestigious Criterion Collection in 2013. KOFA also released the digital remastered version in DVD in 2009 and received an enthusiastic response from Korean fans.
 
This Blu-ray collection contains diverse and abundant supplements. First, this edition features full version of director Kim’s first film The Boxes of Death (1955) collected by the KOFA from U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in 2011. Although the movie can be enjoyed without sound since the soundtrack was lost after it was first collected, it is an important resource to understand the early film philosophy of Kim Ki-young. Furthermore, his short enlightenment film I Am a Truck, which he produced when he worked at the United States Information Service, is also included.
 
The edition also features a commentary by Korea’s representative director Park Chan-wook and film critic Lee Dong-jin to provide an in-depth commentary and guidance on the movie. A video essay by Martin Scorsese that was featured in the Blu-ray edition by the Criterion Collection was also re-included with the approval of the director.
 
Furthermore, the edition is included in Kim Ki-young’s DVD box collection compiled by KOFA in 2008, and re-includes a documentary by director Kim Hong-joon, Two or Three Things I Know about Kim Ki-young that reaffirmed his enormous influence on the Korean film industry, and booklets to help understand the film and the director such as an introduction by director Joo Sung-cheol of Cine21, an introduction of the film by professor Byeon Jae-ran of Soonchunhyang University, and the story of restoration by researcher Kim Ki-ho of KOFA.