Ode to My Father국제시장

Ode to My Father (국제시장) is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon (윤제균) and starring Hwang Jung-min (황정민), Kim Yun-jin (김윤진) and Oh Dal-su (오달수). It runs 130 minutes and was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on December 17, 2014. It tells South Korean history from the 1950s to the present through the life of an ordinary man, Deok-soo, from the Hungnam evacuation of 1950 in the Korean War to the dispatch of nurses and miners to West Germany in the 1960s and the Vietnam War.¹

By January 13, 2015 it had sold 10,001,709 tickets, the 11th Korean film to pass 10 million. In the Korean Film Council's KOBIS figures that DabPop uses it finished with 14,265,007 admissions, No. 5 among the highest-grossing Korean films in Korea; Wikipedia's own text ranks it seventh, so DabPop gives the KOBIS rank.¹² It also won Best Film at the 52nd Grand Bell Awards, which Wikipedia's list files under 2015.³

The film appears in DabPop's explainer on how K-dramas are made for a labour detail: it was made under a standard labour contract enforced from pre-production, limiting the crew to 12-hour days with overtime pay and a weekly day off.⁴ The rest of Yoon's work is on his own page.