Article Ratings & Comments
(1-1 of 1 posts) | Reply
on May 28 2009 08:41 PM Sorry Dennis, but with all due respect, the North and South Korean history goes beyond what you may think it is. It's beyond "ideologies and uniforms". The bonding that occured in that movie is deeper than "vacant feel-good responses". The possibility of bonding between North and South Korean soldiers is something you as a non Korean, would not understand. I can't even begin to try to explain to make you understand what it means when a younger korean (Sgt. Lee) calls an older korean (Sgt. Oh) "hyeong" (which literally means "older brother"). The word hyeong exists in both North and South. We do use the same language, after all. We are actually the same people, after all. Unless you've been raised with the values and traditions of Korean culture, there is simply no way to understand what truly occured in this movie. Your comment "both sides would have no trouble bonding if ideologies and uniforms didn't get in the way of things" shows us that you've read our history in books and documentaries, perhaps have seen a glimpse of our society and traditions through our movies... but the simple fact is, you only delved in a very shallow puddle of what I and other koreans have truly seen when listening to Sgt. Lee call Sgt. Oh "hyeong". (Reply to this) |
IGN RSS Feeds