The Evergreen

Sep 20, 1961

2h 22m

★ 7.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shin Films

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Cast

Chae Yeong-shin

Choi Eun-hee

Park Dong-hyuk

Shin Young-kyun

Geon-bae

Heo Chang-kang

Geon-bae's wife

Do Kum-bong

Won-jae

Shin Seong-il

Dong-hwa (Dong-hyuk's younger brother)

Yoon Il-bong

Gap-san

Park Seong-dae

Won-jae's wife

Han Eun-jin

Hyeon-kyung

Go Seon-ae

Song Jang-ro

Byeon Gi-jong

Han

Park Chul-min

Lee Jeong-ae

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