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Evergreen Tree

  • September 1961
  • 2hrs

    22mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Shin Sang-ok,

    Starring

    Choi Eun-hee,

    Shin Young-kyun,

    Heo Chang-kang,

    Do Kum-bong

    ...

    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.