Tae Guk Gi Cultural Analysis
R e p o r t
On
“Tae Guk Gi”
The brotherhood of war
I- Presentation II- Summary III- Presentation of the main characters IV- Culture analysis
I- presentation
Tae Guk Gi was directed and written by Je-gyu Kang. It’s a drama about the fate of two brothers forced to fight in Korean War. This film received five rewards of which three for the best artistic direction.
II- Summary
A group of Korean archeologists find a skeleton and identify it as Lee Jin-Seok. But Lee Jin-Seok is still alive and he is now an old man. It is his brother Jin-Tae who went missing in the Korean War. We travel from the present to 1950, when the Korean War started.
In 1950, in South Korea, the shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his eighteen years old student brother Jin-seok Lee form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiancé Young-shin Kim and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.
III- Presentation of the characters
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| |Jin-Tae Lee |Jin-Seok Lee |Young-shin Kim |
|Openess to experience |Low |Low |Low |
|Extroversion |High |High |Low |
|Conscientiousness |High
On
“Tae Guk Gi”
The brotherhood of war
I- Presentation II- Summary III- Presentation of the main characters IV- Culture analysis
I- presentation
Tae Guk Gi was directed and written by Je-gyu Kang. It’s a drama about the fate of two brothers forced to fight in Korean War. This film received five rewards of which three for the best artistic direction.
II- Summary
A group of Korean archeologists find a skeleton and identify it as Lee Jin-Seok. But Lee Jin-Seok is still alive and he is now an old man. It is his brother Jin-Tae who went missing in the Korean War. We travel from the present to 1950, when the Korean War started.
In 1950, in South Korea, the shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his eighteen years old student brother Jin-seok Lee form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiancé Young-shin Kim and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.
III- Presentation of the characters
[pic]
| |Jin-Tae Lee |Jin-Seok Lee |Young-shin Kim |
|Openess to experience |Low |Low |Low |
|Extroversion |High |High |Low |
|Conscientiousness |High