Evergreen Tree

Evergreen Tree

142 mins | Drama | Sept. 20, 1961

Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, the pair immediately gets to work, Dong-hyeok 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 inititive 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.

Evergreen Tree

142 mins | Drama | Sept. 20, 1961

Evergreen Tree
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, the pair immediately gets to work, Dong-hyeok 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 inititive 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.
Producers Shin Films
Original title 상록수
Directors Shin Sang-ok
Writers

Cast

Choi Eun-hee

as Chae Young Shin

Shin Young-kyun

as Park Dong-hyuk

Heo Chang-kang

as Geon-bae

Do Kum-bong

as Geon-bae's wife

Yoon Il-bong

as Donghwa (Donghyuk's younger brother)

Eun-Jin Han

as Won Jae

Go Seon-ae

as Hyungyeong

Choi Sam

as Kicheon

Jo Hang

as Gapsan

Gyeong-ju Park

as Yamada

Yim Woon-hak

as Park Cheom-ji

Mi-nam Song

as Donghyuk Mo

Ra Jeong-ok

as Old woman