6th blog spot. wilderness of sweet

The Front Line. (GO JI JUN)

the story of the movie is basically about Korean war. It happened on 1950 in Erok Goji. It is located in 38 longitude; the boundary between North and South. The Erok Goji means Erok Hill. The owner of Erok Goji had been changed for more than hundred times. Since the Erok Hill shifted so much sides, North and South soldiers became SOMEHOW friends. They had been sending letters each other, give Liquors, cigarettes and matches. After few years, North and South declared truce but both Governments wanted to occupy the Erok Hill before the truce took effect.  Most of Soldiers died at the last part.


Even this film may be not truly accurate but there is some sense of truth since soldiers were Korean. 
They may be enemies because what the Government want them to do, this is true. Koreans are duty oriented, and they are obligated by their government because they are military man and of course soldiers on both sides want to protect their country but we cannot discount the fact that this soldiers are both Koreans.
the value of this work as counter or alternative history? is that the detail on history a history otherwise would have been very shallow. This stories show a side that is not evident if one would examine history as something from a history book.