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The Evergreen

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  • Drama

Overview

Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk 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 initiative 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.

Keywords

  • school
  • teacher
  • poverty
  • suffering

Details

Status
Released
Release date
September 20, 1961
Original language
Korean
Spoken languages
Korean
Countries
South Korea
Production
Shin Films
Director
Shin Sang-ok
Cinematography
Sung-hak Bea
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
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