Awaiting

Mar 27, 2014

0h 28m

★ 7.2

Overview

A young woman named Yeon-hee is traveling to Pyongyang with a coach full of elderly people. As she flips through old photographs, she remembers telling her husband Min-woo that she wouldn't allow him to "cross over" to North Korea given the political situation of the day. But Min-woo left anyway and never returned home, and their marriage was torn apart by the Korean War. Now, sixty years after the division of Korea, she looks forward to reuniting with her beloved Min-woo again.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Big Picture

Mirovision

Awaiting Trailers

Cast

Yeon-hee (past)

Moon Chae-won

Min-woo

Go Soo

man on motorcycle

Kim Soo-ro

Yeon-Hee (present day)

Son Sook

Sara

Yoo Ho-jeong

Red Cross Society employee

Choi Gyu-hwan

Volunteer

Park Ye-joo

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