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On 21 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos of Unit 124 are shown to have infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung Hee. As a means of retaliation, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces assembled a team of 31 social outcasts including criminals on death row and life imprisonment, in a plot to kill Kim Il ...
Financed with a comfortable budget by South Korean standards (US$7–8 million), the film was a relative commercial success in 2005.Its theme - where North and South Koreans are forced into alliance under the leadership of a hero venerated in both parts of contemporary Korea - is clearly intended as a plea for Korean reunification.
Our Happy Time) is a 2006 South Korean romantic drama film directed by Song Hae-sung based on a bestselling novel by Gong Ji-young. [2] Starring Gang Dong-won and Lee Na-young , [ 3 ] the film is about a convicted murderer awaiting execution, and the bond he forms with a suicidal young woman who starts visiting him in jail every Thursday.
Innocent Defendant [1] (Korean: 피고인; Hanja: 被告人; RR: Pigoin; lit. Defendant) is a South Korean television series starring Ji Sung, Um Ki-joon, Kwon Yu-ri, Oh Chang-seok, and Uhm Hyun-kyung. It aired on SBS from January 23 to March 21, 2017 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 for 18 episodes. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of August 2023, there were 59 people on death row in South Korea. [1] The method of execution is hanging.. However, there has been an informal moratorium on executions since President Kim Dae-jung took office in 1998.
My Way (Korean: 마이 웨이) is a 2011 South Korean war film produced, co-written and directed by Kang Je-gyu.It stars Jang Dong-gun, alongside Japanese actor Joe Odagiri and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing.
The story of Yang was the basis for the 2011 South Korean film My Way. The movie follows two characters, a Korean boy named Jun-shik (played by Shin Sang-yeob) and his Japanese friend Tatsuo (played by Sung Yoo-bin). [10] At the time it was billed as the "most expensive Korean film ever", with a budget of around $23 million. [10]
12.12: The Day (Korean: 서울의 봄; RR: Seour-ui Bom; lit. Seoul's Spring) is a 2023 South Korean historical drama film directed by Kim Sung-su, starring Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo-sung, Lee Sung-min, Park Hae-joon and Kim Sung-kyun. [5] The film is set against the backdrop of the December 12, 1979, military coup from the late 1970s to early ...