The Ugly Duckling

Directed by • Kim Seong-sik (김성식) • Kwak Kyung-taek (곽경택) • Yoo Jae-yeong (유재영)

Written by Kwak Kyung-taek (곽경택)

95min | Release date in South Korea: 2012/08/30

Synopsis
A military story even soldiers don't know about?
The growth story of clumsy Yook-bang in the year 1987!
With a father who lost his mind from torture and a mother who left for America...
23-year-old Nak-man joins the military as security who is allowed to leave at 6PM sharp, or also known as son of God, Yook-bang.
He joins the military as a hairdresser but what he really does is take pictures, play chess, clean the toilets, stand guard in guardhouses for military police and other chores.
Nak-man wants to finish up this tiring life of being ignored all the time and follow his mother to the States...
He then meets a bunch of weird prisoners.
With a squad leader who thinks of him as a nuisance...
Senior soldiers who order him around to do anything...
All these threaten Nak-man's military life.
Will the 'ugly duckling' Nak-man be able to finish his military service?
"Time go, wind blow, world, wait for me!"

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