As One, Korea

  • Cast

    Ha Ji-won, Bae Doo-na, Han Ye-ri, Choi Yoon-young, Park Chol-min, Kim Eung-soo, Oh Jung-se and Lee Jong-suk

  • Release Date

    2012

  • Runtime

    127 mins

  • Cert

    12

As One, Korea is a cinematic retelling of the first ever Unified Korean team that participated in the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in 1991.

In order to defuse the heightened situation after the bombing of Korean
Air Flight 858 in 1987, a summit took place between North and South Korea. The priority of this summit was to form a unified Korean sports team
to exchange goodwill between the two nations.

Thereafter, the first ever unified Korean team was formed under the name
‘Korea’ and participated in the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships
in Chiba, Japan. South Korean Ping-pong star Hyun Jung-hwa and the
North’s Li Bun-hui find themselves constantly defeated by the Chinese
“Ping-pong Witch” Deng Yaping. But Jung-hwa and Bun-hui find themselves forced into an uneasy alliance after being thrown together by their
respective governments. But though the two teams have their issues, once
joined together they may finally have a chance at glory.

The stories of these players during the 46 days that led up to the final
match are told here for the first time.