Evergreen Tree

– Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) gra..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 50 Minutes
Release Year:
1961
Original Name:
Sangnoksu
Evergreen Tree (1961) - Also known as Sangnoksu

Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, the pair immediately gets to work, Dong-hyeok builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the inititive and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.

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Release Date:

20 Jun 1961

Language:

Korean

Director:

Sang-ok Shin

Writer:

Hun Shim

Main Actors:

Eun-hie Choi, Yeong-gyun Shin, Jang-kang Heo, Do Kum-Bong

Plot:

Two college grads go to the country to modernize a small, rustic community. The woman establishes a school and the man organizes a youth hall. However, their activities arouse the suspicions of the colonial government which targets them for elimination

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10