Ode to My Father
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| Hangul | 국제시장 |
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| Revised Romanization | Gukjesijang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kukcheshijang |
| Directed by | Yoon Je-kyoon |
| Produced by | Yoon Je-kyoon Park Ji-seong |
| Written by | Park Su-jin |
| Starring |
Hwang Jung-min Yunjin Kim |
| Music by | Lee Byung-woo |
| Cinematography | Choi Young-hwan |
| Edited by | Lee Jin |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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126 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean English German Vietnamese |
| Budget | US$13.1 million |
| Box office | US$105 million |
Ode to My Father (Hangul: 국제시장; RR: Gukjesijang; lit. "Gukje (International) Market") is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon. Starring Hwang Jung-min and Yunjin Kim, it depicts modern 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 second highest-grossing film in the history of Korean cinema, with 14.2 million tickets sold.
During the Hungnam Evacuation of 1950 in the Korean War, when thousands of refugees in what would become North Korea were transported south by U.S. Navy boats, a child, Deok-soo, loses track of his sister, Mak-soon. Because of this, Deok-soo's 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. Before leaving Deok-soo and the rest of his family, the father makes his Deok-soo promise to be the head of the household in his place.
As the firstborn, Deok-soo becomes his family's breadwinner from an early age, doing all manner of odd jobs to support the family. In the 1960s, financial need forces him to travel to Europe with his best friend Dal-goo, where they find dangerous work as gastarbeiters (guest workers) in German coal mines to pay for his brother's tuition at Seoul National University. There, Deok-soo falls in love with a fellow migrant worker, the nurse Young-ja. After a mining accident, Deok-soo leaves Germany because his visa expires. Young-ja returns to Korea months later and tells him she's pregnant with his child. Soon afterward, they have a modest wedding, begin a life together, and eventually have two sons.
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