Korean Movie - Taegukgi

Synopsis

The realistic war scenes in Taegukgi are mostly filmed at Daegwallyeong Ranch.

'Taegukgi' takes the audience on an emotional ride through war- torn Korea. Set at the start of the Korean War, Jin-seok (Won bin) and Jin-tae (Jang Dong-gun), play brothers from a poor but happy family headed by their mother. Jin-tae shines shoes for a living and is engaged to be married, while his younger brother is preparing to go to college.

The brothers are forced to deal with the separation of their family and a war that would only cause heartache for them. From the beginning of the war Jin-tae is extremely protective of his younger brother and always worries about him. Jin-seok is only 18 years old and has a medical condition that has weakened him. Jin-tae is told that if he is to get a medal of honor, that his younger brother will be discharged from the military. After hearing this, he signs up for every dangerous mission. These missions take a toll on him and cause him to become a man that he wasn't; he becomes cruel and numb to death. Jin-seok can't understand how his brother could change so much. Eventually, Jin-tae receives a medal of honor, but in a surprising twist, Jin-seok is not able to be discharged.

View Point

'Taegukgi' has been praised for its realistic war scenes. This movie guarantees to make Won bin and Jang Dong-gun, already enormously popular overseas, attain an even higher level of celebrity.

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