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Ode to My Father
Ode to My Father (Korean: 국제시장) is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon. Starring Hwang Jung-min, Yunjin Kim, and Oh Dal-su, it depicts South Korean history from the 1950s to the present day through the life of an ordinary man, as he experiences events such as the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 during the Korean War, the government's decision to dispatch nurses and miners to West Germany in the 1960s, and the Vietnam War.
It is currently the seventh highest-grossing film in the history of South Korean cinema, with 14.2 million tickets sold.
During the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 in the Korean War, when thousands of refugees in North Korea were transported south by U.S. naval boats, the child Deok-soo loses his sister Mak-soon. His father stays behind to search for her, telling his son to take the boy's mother and two younger siblings to the port city of Busan, where Deok-soo's aunt runs an imported goods store and contracts with USFK at Busan Base. Before leaving the family, the father makes Deok-soo promise to serve as the head of the family in his place.
Deok-soo becomes his family's breadwinner from an early age, doing all sorts of odd jobs to support the family. In the 1960s, financial need forces him to travel to Germany with his best friend Dal-goo, where they find dangerous work as Gastarbeiter (guest workers) at German coal mines in Hamborn, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany to pay for his brother's tuition at Seoul National University. There, Deok-soo falls in love with a fellow Korean, Yeong-ja, who is a nurse. Deok-soo survives a mining accident and leaves Germany after his visa expires. Yeong-ja returns to Korea months later and tells him she's pregnant with his child. They have a modest wedding, begin a life together and have two sons.
After a few years, Deok-soo's aunt dies and his elderly uncle needs money and decides to sell the store, something Deok-soo disagrees with. He purchases the store, giving up his dream of enrolling at Korea Maritime and Ocean University and becoming a sea captain.
Deok-soo enlists in the Korean army in the 1970s to serve in the war-torn Vietnam, partly to fulfill his sister's wish for a big wedding by earning enough money to purchase the store from his uncle. He returns to Korea with a lame leg after getting shot while helping villagers escape from the Viet Cong.
Deok-soo runs the store with his wife. In 1983, when major broadcast stations in Korea run TV programmes in which relatives separated during the Korean War are reunited, Deok-soo is contacted to be featured in one of these shows due to the hope of an elderly man from his hometown who claims to be his father.
On TV, the two realise they are not related. Deok-soo's family is distraught but soon afterwards, the same program brings Deok-soo back to TV in the hope of finding his long-lost sister Mak-soon. A Korean American woman adopted as a child by an American family during the Korean War is featured. Deok-soo realises that she is his long-lost sister after talking to her despite he could not speak English and she could not speak Korean. An emotional family reunion ensues and his sister comes to Korea. Deok-soo's mother dies soon afterwards.
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Ode to My Father
Ode to My Father (Korean: 국제시장) is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon. Starring Hwang Jung-min, Yunjin Kim, and Oh Dal-su, it depicts South Korean history from the 1950s to the present day through the life of an ordinary man, as he experiences events such as the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 during the Korean War, the government's decision to dispatch nurses and miners to West Germany in the 1960s, and the Vietnam War.
It is currently the seventh highest-grossing film in the history of South Korean cinema, with 14.2 million tickets sold.
During the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 in the Korean War, when thousands of refugees in North Korea were transported south by U.S. naval boats, the child Deok-soo loses his sister Mak-soon. His father stays behind to search for her, telling his son to take the boy's mother and two younger siblings to the port city of Busan, where Deok-soo's aunt runs an imported goods store and contracts with USFK at Busan Base. Before leaving the family, the father makes Deok-soo promise to serve as the head of the family in his place.
Deok-soo becomes his family's breadwinner from an early age, doing all sorts of odd jobs to support the family. In the 1960s, financial need forces him to travel to Germany with his best friend Dal-goo, where they find dangerous work as Gastarbeiter (guest workers) at German coal mines in Hamborn, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany to pay for his brother's tuition at Seoul National University. There, Deok-soo falls in love with a fellow Korean, Yeong-ja, who is a nurse. Deok-soo survives a mining accident and leaves Germany after his visa expires. Yeong-ja returns to Korea months later and tells him she's pregnant with his child. They have a modest wedding, begin a life together and have two sons.
After a few years, Deok-soo's aunt dies and his elderly uncle needs money and decides to sell the store, something Deok-soo disagrees with. He purchases the store, giving up his dream of enrolling at Korea Maritime and Ocean University and becoming a sea captain.
Deok-soo enlists in the Korean army in the 1970s to serve in the war-torn Vietnam, partly to fulfill his sister's wish for a big wedding by earning enough money to purchase the store from his uncle. He returns to Korea with a lame leg after getting shot while helping villagers escape from the Viet Cong.
Deok-soo runs the store with his wife. In 1983, when major broadcast stations in Korea run TV programmes in which relatives separated during the Korean War are reunited, Deok-soo is contacted to be featured in one of these shows due to the hope of an elderly man from his hometown who claims to be his father.
On TV, the two realise they are not related. Deok-soo's family is distraught but soon afterwards, the same program brings Deok-soo back to TV in the hope of finding his long-lost sister Mak-soon. A Korean American woman adopted as a child by an American family during the Korean War is featured. Deok-soo realises that she is his long-lost sister after talking to her despite he could not speak English and she could not speak Korean. An emotional family reunion ensues and his sister comes to Korea. Deok-soo's mother dies soon afterwards.