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00:00North Korea?
00:30The drama that challenged such taboos,
00:33Love at First Sight.
00:41Behind the scenes, there was the struggle of the staff due to the division of the country for more than 70 years.
01:01After it was broadcasted on TV in Korea, it was broadcasted all over the world.
01:08The whole world was enthusiastic about this drama.
01:14Even in that country, it is said that it is dangerous and is secretly watched.
01:23Love at First Sight, which has become a social phenomenon beyond borders.
01:30Approaching that unknown secret.
01:56Love at First Sight
01:58When I started watching it, I couldn't stop, so I watched all 16 episodes at once.
02:06The turning point of fate is February 23, 2020, the day when Love at First Sight was broadcast.
02:20The beginning of the story is the 38-degree war between North and South Korea.
02:28From there, the love story of a prisoner from South Korea falling in love with a North Korean soldier begins.
02:42At the same time as the broadcast, it jumped out of South Korea and Asia and became explosively popular all over the world.
02:53The first viewpoint is one of the protagonists.
02:58Son Ye-jin, an actor who played a prisoner of war in North Korea.
03:06How to play a drama that starts with an emergency situation of a prisoner crossing the border.
03:14She showed me the detailed analysis of the role and the determination to play this work.
03:21A drama of love that has become popular all over the world.
03:28Another story approaching the unknown truth.
03:37Seoul, South Korea
03:42Son Ye-jin, who played the heroine of Love at First Sight.
03:47She became a world star with the hit of this work.
04:17Why do people like it so much?
04:20Why do people love it so much?
04:23I've been thinking about this.
04:26First of all, I think there was a curiosity of some overseas people about the South and North.
04:34And anyway, regardless of the country, love stories are stories that everyone can relate to and like.
04:42So I thought a lot of people would relate to the tragic but beautiful love story of Romeo and Juliet.
05:03What kind of drama is Love at First Sight?
05:07Let me introduce you in a minute.
05:12The heroine, Yoon Seri, is a Korean court lady.
05:17She met the North Korean minister, Ri Jong-hyuk, on a 38-degree battle.
05:26At the end of the fight, he decides to hide Seri in his village.
05:34Seri lives with her identity hidden.
05:36Seri is confused by North Korean culture and confronts the villagers.
05:46Seri and Jong-hyuk fall in love.
05:59But they can't stay safe forever.
06:04Jong-hyuk risks his life to help Seri return home.
06:12But it meant the breakup of two people who loved each other.
06:21When I first saw the script, I thought the idea was brilliant.
06:26The lines were so interesting.
06:28How did he think of this?
06:30It was very new.
06:31So I had no reason not to do it.
06:37The script that Sorn fell in love with.
06:40It was written by Park Ji-eun, a Korean hit maker and screenwriter.
06:46The box is a love comment with an unbelievable setting.
06:53She has written a series of hits about their romance.
06:59Park Ji-eun chose South Korea and North Korea.
07:08But it was a forbidden area.
07:17The Korean War between South Korea and North Korea in 1950.
07:24More than 3 million people, including civilians, were killed.
07:34Three years later, the Korean War was declared.
07:45The two countries are still at war.
07:49They are in a state of tension.
07:52The drama is about the state of love.
07:59Of course, Korean actors play North Korean people.
08:05But this is not the end of the story.
08:08Yang Kyung-moon, who played Pyo Chi-soo, the most patriotic of North Korean soldiers.
08:22I met with the director as much as I wanted in advance for a month and a half.
08:32While I was on the move, I recorded it and listened to it over and over again.
08:42For the drama production, a committee of 13 defectors was created.
08:49Actors are trained in pronunciation, speaking, and walking.
08:56More than stepping into the forbidden theme, a thorough reality was sought.
09:04I once defined it as a person who wants to do this.
09:09I had a lot of parts.
09:11There are many shortcomings, and as you said, there is definitely a warm side.
09:18He must have a role as a soldier.
09:25So I had a lot of trouble with Yoon Se-il.
09:32I eat meat for two meals out of three meals.
09:36I'm a meat lover.
09:38Hey, South Korea.
09:40Don't fry.
09:42Lee Min-ha is brutally humiliating our soldiers.
09:45They eat meat for two meals out of three meals.
09:48You're advertising falsehoods.
09:53We eat a lot of meat like this.
09:56We do something rich like this.
09:58Then it's not that we're not like that, so you're not doing that.
10:06What Se-ri says is that these people may be very reluctant.
10:16I don't know much about that idea.
10:20I was trying to think about what these people think about the idea that I don't know.
10:26I think that's too much.
10:30However, when Se-ri appeared, I focused on the fact that everything Se-ri said was very unfamiliar and unbelievable.
10:54Pyotr continues to refuse the reality of South Korea that Se-ri talks about in the play.
11:01Even when he infiltrated South Korea at the end of the drama.
11:06Wow, there's a lot of cars.
11:11It must have been hard for you to know we were coming and put cars on the road.
11:20However, what Yang Eun-jil and Pyotr showed was not only a sense of refusal to South Korea.
11:28When I reunited with Se-ri in South Korea after a long time.
11:33I don't know.
11:36Pyotr, come here.
11:38I'll be right back.
11:45We're a divided country.
11:52I think it's a little more careful to deal with the North and South.
12:00Because there could be a misunderstanding through the media.
12:07Fortunately, North Korea is an environment where communication with the world is not very good.
12:21I didn't know, so I just thought vaguely.
12:32The most important thing is whether it's North Korea, Africa, or the other side of the world.
12:40Everyone has a family.
12:43There's someone I love.
12:45There's someone I want to protect.
12:48There's friendship and loyalty.
12:52There's pain, there's sadness, there's joy.
12:55People are all the same.
12:59Even if the country is different, people draw the same place carefully.
13:05Se-ri, the heroine, and Jong-hyuk's love drama were the most important things.
13:14A man who fell in love with a country he didn't know.
13:21I thought that scene was the beginning.
13:29It's the climax of the first half.
13:33Episode 4.
13:38Se-ri, who has been acting strange since she arrived in Fuji, is lost at the market at sunset.
13:46She is trapped in despair while wandering alone.
13:50Suddenly, a light turns on.
14:00As she walks, Jong-hyuk, who is looking for Se-ri, is holding a candle.
14:21Se-ri, who has been acting strange since she arrived in Fuji, is lost at the market at sunset.
14:32I was alone, like a loner.
14:35There was no one I knew.
14:37I just wanted to cry.
14:39I couldn't take a step out.
14:41There was a light far away.
14:44I just followed the light like a child.
14:47Jong-hyuk was standing there.
14:50It was a very touching scene.
14:59Sun made a medicine to make this scene the peak.
15:07It's good. Don't give it to me.
15:10Don't promote it. It won't work.
15:14I thought Se-ri was a very strong person.
15:18She is very independent and positive.
15:23She is a very positive person who can overcome any situation.
15:31Se-ri was in a difficult situation for the first time in her life.
15:40At that time, I saw Jong-hyuk helping Se-ri with all his heart.
15:50I think Se-ri learned true love.
15:56The last episode.
15:58Jong-hyuk, who infiltrated Korea to save Se-ri, is summoned to North Korea.
16:05The last farewell comes.
16:09I cried a lot while reading the script.
16:13In a way, it was time to really break up.
16:19Se-ri's lines were so sad and the situation was so sad.
16:25A military border that can never be crossed.
16:30But
16:32How can I live if I'm dragged like that?
16:38Without looking back at the danger of being shot,
16:41I crossed the border for love.
16:49Even so, I was pulled away.
16:52At that time
17:02I wanted to hold Jong-hyuk's hand for the last time.
17:08But it was well expressed.
17:11It was a good scene because it seemed to express that the two of them were really broken.
17:212020.
17:23In the midst of Corona.
17:25Love that has been distributed to the world.
17:32The story of love beyond division is an unseen pandemic.
17:38The strength of people suffering from division.
17:42Life can't be predicted, and it's unpredictable.
17:48I think this line touched everyone more.
17:53I feel the same way.
18:12Love that continues to be a hit all over the world.
18:16However, the first reputation in Korea was not a simple one.
18:24The viewing rate of the first episode was 6.1%.
18:29There was criticism that North Korea was beautifying.
18:32At the beginning of the broadcast, the opposite wind was blowing.
18:36But
18:38The viewing rate was increased for each episode.
18:43The final episode was 21.7%.
18:47It became the record for the largest number of views in the history of the broadcast TV station.
18:55The second point of view is the person who created the excitement of this eel climb.
19:01Director Lee Jong-hyuk.
19:04How were the many famous scenes that everyone who saw the drama was born?
19:12Another story that approaches the precise calculation behind the hit.
19:21When I was doing the foreplay, I got a signal miss.
19:27When I saw the signal miss, I thought it was a story about a North Korean man and a South Korean woman.
19:34I thought it was very unique.
19:37In the middle, the relationship between North and South Korea was good, but it was not good.
19:43I was a little cautious about what to say on the North Korean stage.
19:49In the first year of the drama production, the first time in 11 years, the North-South Staircase was realized.
19:57At that time, the relationship between North and South Korea was different from now.
20:02There was also a snow melting mood.
20:08The relationship between the two countries was in a very difficult situation to draw in the drama.
20:18What do you want to say to the viewers?
20:21When Park Ji-eun first talked to me,
20:27It's like a rural drama in the 1970s.
20:34It's a story about small people, and that kind of stage should be shown.
20:39I don't want to see any ideologues or political figures.
20:43I hope it's a drama that shows a lot of people.
20:49I also agreed with him.
21:03Most of the story takes place in North Korea.
21:08Even if you can see the direction, you can't see the whole picture.
21:13The first thing I had a hard time with was the location of the drama.
21:19When I first saw this script,
21:23I thought it would be difficult to find it in Korea because it was only in the DMZ area.
21:34Where should I take this Pyongyang?
21:36I thought a lot about where to shoot these unusual buildings.
21:42So I went to China, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Mongolia because of Pyongyang.
21:55But there was no place like Pyongyang.
22:00I looked for places like that.
22:02I wanted to know if I could shoot there.
22:06In the past, I was invited to North Korea because of a good drama.
22:14So I was hoping that I could shoot there.
22:22I looked for places like that, but it was impossible.
22:27He drew North Korea in a realistic way.
22:32The director relied on the 13 defectors.
22:40There are a lot of posters, but there are more interesting life slogans.
22:46I wanted to do it like that.
22:50For example, this slogan.
22:57The village where the heroine, Seri, is hidden was made entirely of sets.
23:07Kim So-nyeon, who played the resident of the village.
23:15The set there was amazing.
23:20It was a village with mountains and hills.
23:27It was a very large village.
23:33The details were not shown in the drama.
23:38The house and the exterior were not shown in the drama.
23:43So I was overwhelmed when I went to the set.
23:47I felt like I was in a movie.
23:50I felt like I was in a time travel.
23:57The image of North Korea that had never existed,
24:01was solidified from the close hearing of the defectors.
24:08The most important thing was that
24:11there was no backlight at night in North Korea.
24:16When Hyun-bin picked up the candle,
24:19the candle shone brightly and he came to see the candle.
24:23That's what it said in the script.
24:26But when you're filming,
24:29you can't do anything without lighting because you can't see the character.
24:34So in the beginning, the camera director and the lighting director
24:37decided to turn off all the lights and only use the basic lighting.
24:43And I think the best part of the scene was
24:49that the meaning of the scene was revealed
24:53by the feelings of Seri and Jung-hyuk.
24:57I think that's why people like it.
25:00The production that penetrates the reality
25:04also draws out the acting beyond the director's imagination.
25:12I'm a person who sees the whole thing,
25:15and the actors are deepening one by one.
25:19In fact, the more you go to the second half of the Korean drama,
25:24the emotions that I didn't think would come out
25:28come out from the actors.
25:31After Seri left,
25:34there was a part where she left a letter to the ladies and read the letter.
25:39Seri, who had been hiding from the villagers
25:43that she had fled from South Korea.
25:47For the first time in Okitagami,
25:49she confesses that she came from South Korea.
25:55I'm leaving now,
25:58but I wanted to tell the ladies my real name.
26:04I had no choice but to lie a lot,
26:08but my feelings for the ladies were real.
26:12What did you think when you read the letter?
26:15Actually, in the script,
26:18it wasn't that sad, it was just a little warm.
26:22It was funny and warm,
26:25but when Kim Sun-young suddenly read the letter,
26:28she read it with tears in her eyes.
26:31But when I saw it,
26:34I suddenly burst into tears.
26:37I remember thinking,
26:39why did I do that?
26:42When she told the person who played the role,
26:48It's surprising that Director Lee Jong-hyo thought of it as a comedy.
26:54I'm very close with Director Lee Jong-hyo.
27:01Of course, we were so close,
27:05but we didn't know if he was alive or dead.
27:07It was very dangerous for him to die.
27:10And when the letter came,
27:13he said, he's Korean and I'm North Korean,
27:16but we'll never meet again until we die.
27:19But anyway, I heard a lot of complaints.
27:23Of course, it's sad,
27:26but I want him to live with us.
27:29Of course, I cried.
27:32But how can I make it funny?
27:38A love letter that conveys the appearance of North Korea,
27:42which has never been depicted before.
27:47However, the viewing rate of the first meeting in Korea
27:52did not shake at 6.1%.
27:58The producer, who had a huge budget and time,
28:02was shocked.
28:04He thought he had made it.
28:07But there was no difference.
28:10In fact, this drama
28:13was made in anticipation of world distribution from the beginning.
28:18Lee Gi-hyuk, the strategic business manager of the production company.
28:252D Dragon is not a role that corresponds to a simple production company.
28:30We are developing a plan,
28:33funding,
28:36and planning how to distribute it.
28:39And based on the IP,
28:42we can make another profit.
28:45We created a system that can provide internal funds.
28:51The love letter is the highlight of the strategy.
28:55Park, the screenwriter.
28:58Lee, the director.
29:01These are the best talents of Korean dramas.
29:05Through this fund, we were able to build a cooperative relationship
29:09with outstanding creators and producers.
29:13If we invest our funding in them,
29:16and if they make a good work,
29:19the funding will continue to flow.
29:23Everything was calculated.
29:26The love letter.
29:29But there was one unexpected part.
29:35As far as I know,
29:38there weren't many options for the ending.
29:42The ending of this drama.
29:45After the breakup of tears in the 38-degree line,
29:49the story is three years later.
29:53John Hyuk left the army
29:56and gave up his career as a pianist.
30:02Seri established a new music foundation.
30:09Through the path of music,
30:12they reunited in Switzerland.
30:16There is no ending like this.
30:18There is no ending like this.
30:21But...
30:24When I wrote the new music,
30:27it was a realistic ending.
30:30Since I'm a South Korean and a North Korean,
30:33it was a scene where I could see
30:37my personality from a distance.
30:43Kaesong Industrial District is
30:45a special economic district in North Korea.
30:49South and North Korea are on good terms.
30:52Until 2016, South Korean companies were expanding.
30:56If it were here,
30:59they might be able to look at each other from a distance.
31:03But...
31:06That scene was not very sad.
31:10It was a very sad scene.
31:14I think it was the first ending
31:17in my life.
31:20Can I say this?
31:29The filming of the drama
31:32started in Switzerland.
31:35In fact,
31:38they met in Switzerland
31:40for the first time.
31:43They were supposed to film
31:46the scene where they met.
31:49But...
31:52Park Jin-eun said,
31:55I want to write a few more scenes.
31:58Is it possible to film it?
32:01She wrote the ending for Switzerland.
32:04In the middle,
32:06the actors didn't know
32:09about the ending.
32:12They didn't know
32:15about the variety of events.
32:19I couldn't predict
32:22how much they would miss each other.
32:26That part...
32:29Emotions keep building up.
32:32Their love must have built up,
32:36but they didn't know
32:39how it would go without the script.
32:43I think that was difficult.
32:47That ending...
32:50It appeared in front of Seri,
32:53who was paragliding again in Switzerland.
32:56Landing is important.
32:59I don't think it was a bad landing.
33:03It was a landing, but...
33:08I think it was a good landing.
33:15Oh, it wasn't a landing.
33:18Was it a landing?
33:23I missed you.
33:28Because of the emotional connection,
33:32it was difficult.
33:35Filming the ending scene in Switzerland
33:38was the most difficult.
33:41Even after a while,
33:44I feel like I'll keep interviewing
33:47and talking about this film.
33:50It's like a happy gift.
33:53But...
33:55It's like a gift.
33:58It's like a gift.
34:01It's like a gift.
34:04It's like a gift.
34:07It's like a gift.
34:10It's like a gift.
34:13It's like a gift.
34:16It's like a gift.
34:19It's like a gift.
34:22It's like a gift.
34:25It's Kita Chosen.
34:33Today,
34:36North Korea is one of the most closed
34:39countries of the world.
34:42But nowadays,
34:45many people are claiming
34:48that Love in Phuji 위에
34:51is located above the sea.
34:53In North Korea, it is illegal to watch content from South Korea or other countries.
35:03This is a violation of the Anti-Communist Thoughts and Cultural Defamation Act.
35:12The third point of view is the North Korean people who watched this drama.
35:18What do they have in common when they watch the drama?
35:23Another story told across borders.
35:32In North Korea, people are watching the drama, Love at First Sight.
35:37This rumor spread in the summer of 2020.
35:42Jiro Ishimaru, a journalist who has been covering North Korea for many years,
35:49confirmed the truth of the rumor.
35:58Love at First Sight was very popular in South Korea and Japan, especially last year.
36:06People in North Korea were very interested in the drama.
36:13They were wondering if the drama would repel North Korea or if it would be more popular in South Korea.
36:19People were very interested in the drama.
36:36In the first place, why is it possible to watch South Korean dramas in North Korea, where regulations are strict?
36:46South Korean movies and dramas were released in the form of pirate versions in North Korea around 2005.
36:58DVDs and USBs were copied from China and secretly stored in North Korea.
37:11As a result, regulations in North Korea became stricter.
37:14North Korea created a new law, which is called the Reactionary Thoughts and Cultural Defamation Act.
37:19You can also call it the Kwanryu Contents Defamation Act.
37:24If you watch South Korean dramas, you will be sentenced to five years in prison.
37:29It is very strict.
37:31North Korea started to look at South Korean dramas as a punishment.
37:36Just watching South Korean dramas is like risking one's life.
37:41Even so, people in North Korea wanted to see Love at First Sight.
37:49Chinese cell phones are secretly stored in North Korea.
37:55We use them to communicate with North Korean reporters.
38:00Chinese cell phones can reach North Korea from 2 to 3 kilometers away.
38:07We conduct tours and chat with them.
38:11We investigate the situation inside North Korea.
38:18One of our partners saw Love at First Sight.
38:24He asked me if I had seen Love at First Sight.
38:28I told him it was a South Korean drama.
38:31He called it Shi-chak.
38:35In South Korean, it is called Sarang-e-pul-shi-chak.
38:39People call Love at First Sight as Shi-chak.
38:45It was very popular.
38:48People watched it a lot.
38:54I want to see Love at First Sight.
38:57What attracted them to watch it?
39:04A South Korean woman was hungry.
39:08She laughed a lot when she was eating potatoes.
39:15Whatever I gave her, it was just three leaves.
39:20That's why my nickname was the short-leaved princess.
39:26Why is the scorched rice with sugar so delicious?
39:33Scorched rice with sugar is delicious.
39:37Why am I eating the fifth one?
39:41North Korea is suffering from food shortages.
39:45People eat scorched rice.
39:48The drama is not only about the situation,
39:53but also about humor.
40:01I thought it would be interesting
40:05that North Koreans eat anything when they are hungry.
40:11There is an organization called the People's Republic of North Korea.
40:19Korean actors play the role of the People's Republic of North Korea.
40:26It was so funny that they used North Korean words.
40:36I laughed, it was funny, it was funny.
40:42North Koreans may have found something in common with Koreans.
40:53It was the same from the perspective of North Korean defectors.
41:01It was good for us that North Korea was as real as we lived.
41:12The place where I lived was reproduced through the drama.
41:17I was able to heal my homesickness.
41:25Kim, who has lived in North Korea for more than 30 years,
41:31was particularly impressed by the scene at the end of the drama.
41:38There are a lot of chicken restaurants in South Korea.
41:43There are a lot of people who eat chicken.
41:46North Korean soldiers invade South Korea.
41:50I was surprised by the fried chicken I saw for the first time.
41:56Kim said that his friends who are still in North Korea overlap in that figure.
42:04I wanted to let everyone taste it.
42:10I want people in North Korea to be like that.
42:15I want to teach them the taste of North Korea.
42:21I don't want to fight with each other.
42:24I want the confrontation to end as soon as possible.
42:31I was able to come to South Korea freely even though I was a soldier.
42:38I went back to South Korea.
42:41It was the last time I went back to South Korea.
42:44The soldiers were sitting on the hill while remembering South Korea.
42:48They were talking about their dreams.
42:52I was surprised to see myself waiting for the water to come out.
43:00I waited a long time for the water to come out.
43:03I want North Korea and South Korea to be united as soon as possible.
43:08I think it was a work that expressed the common feelings of North and South Korea.
43:18It was very impressive.
43:25The two countries are the closest and the farthest.
43:30The love story that crosses the border is fiction,
43:34but at this moment, it moves the hearts of people who are divided.
43:41Through that love, I want to show you a more mature and warm Seri.
43:50I wanted to show you the process of gradually changing.
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