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Evergreen Tree

Evergreen Tree

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 20, 1961

Runtime

2h 22m

Genres

Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

상록수

Production Companies

Shin Films

Director

Shin Sang-ok

Description

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.