The Evergreen

(1961)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1961

Runtime: 142 мин

Country: South Korea

Director: 신상옥

Cast: 최은희, 신영균, 허장강, 도금봉, 신성일, 윤일봉, 박성대, 한은진, 고선애, 변기종

Plot

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.