The Evergreen

The Evergreen — 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.

• Release date
• September 20, 1961
• Runtime
• 142 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Shin Sang-ok

The Evergreen — Cast

Choi Eun-hee Chae Yeong-shin Shin Young-kyun Park Dong-hyuk Heo Chang-kang Geon-bae Do Kum-bong Geon-bae's wife Shin Seong-il Won-jae Yoon Il-bong Dong-hwa (Dong-hyuk's younger brother)

P

Park Seong-dae Gap-san Han Eun-jin Won-jae's wife