Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

Key Battles of American History

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4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 2004 South Korean film, Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War), which tells the story of two brothers who are forcibly drafted into the South Korean army at the outbreak of the Korean War. The film follows the brothers all the way to the end of the war and reveals the horror of the war in its fullness. Tae Guk Gi became one of the biggest successes in the history of South Korean film up to that time.

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1:17.6	host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Films of the Korean War. This is your host, James Early,
1:32.3	as always. And as always, I've got my buddy Sean McIra with me. So Sean, we're going back to another
1:39.8	South Korean film, aren't we? Yes, we are. This is one I had never heard of before I started poking around and trying to find some good movies for the Korean War.
1:50.9	Although, to be honest with you, I had never, I don't know that I had heard of any of these movies.
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