The Korea Tragedy

It’s truly a tragedy that the Korean peninsula is divided into two part where two nations that were a unified nation whose people love each other became enemy for the profit of greater power behind them, the Soviet Union and the US, the film Tae Guk Gi, is telling a story that people from both sides might not even be able to see each other for their lifetime.

Politics initialed created by human beings are meant to create protection and service to the general public for their safety and well-being. However, nationalist and the cold war along with all the killings, etc. involved with the political conflict is truly disappointing. We see this quite often with China and Taiwan, East Germany and West Germany, they share a tragic character. A nation whose population were living all together for the same goal were simply divided up into two nations by some other stronger nation’s decision.

In the modern apocalypse ideology, one man no matter how powerful he is never ever should decide the fate for others, but artistic works are most time only good wishes from the general public. We still see the trend after most wars that the participating parties don’t even get to decide what or how, but rather, the dominant power behind them does. For the Korean peninsula’s case, the north became a representative of China and Russia while the south become the representative of the south. The film never made a case that which side is truly better than the other. The well-developed capitalism didn’t really free the people in the south while the northern dictatorship neither have done much good. Rather, the film focused on the tragedy of the relationships between two deeply loved family on both sides to show how ironic this so-called rational decision is.