Evergreen Tree (movie)
상록수- User score: 7
- Production country: South Korea
- Producer: Shin Sang-ok
- Production companies: Shin Films
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 9/20/1961
- Run time: 142 min.
Movie 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.
