According to a report by Yonhap News Agency on March 2, on the occasion of South Korea's "March Day" commemorating the anti-Japanese independence movement, the Korean film "Dongzhu", which tells the humiliating history of Japan's colonial rule, has attracted the largest audience since its release.
According to the report, "East Pillar" attracted 96,100 viewers on the same day, and attracted a total of 752,200 viewers since its release on the 17th, which has long exceeded the break-even point. Dongzhu tells the story of the Korean poet Yoon Dong-joo and his cousin Ander Song Mengkui, an independent activist during the Japanese rule.
!["In that dark age, there was no resentment in his poems": the poet Yin Dongzhu and the past of Northeast Asia[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)