Joint Security Area (film)

Joint Security Area Korean JSA is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film starring Lee Youngae, Lee Byunghun and Song Kangho. It was directed by Park Chanwook and is based on the novel DMZ by Park Sangyeon. The film, which was shot on location in South Korea, concerns an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting incident within the DMZ, the heavily fortified border that separates North and South Korea.

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the DMZ at a North Korean border house, before Sergeant Lee Soohyeok Lee Byunghun, a South Korean soldier on border duties, attempts to flee back to the South Korean side. The southern troops rescue him while the gunfire erupts and, two days later, the fragile relationship between the two Koreas depends on a special investigation conducted by Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean Lee Youngae on behalf of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission.As Sergeant Lee Soohyeok has confessed to the shootings, Sophie investigates why the two Koreas have contradicting accounts of events Soohyeoks states he was knocked out and kidnapped while relieving himself and, waking tied up in the North Korean border house, secretly freed himself and shot three North Korean soldiers, leaving two dead. The North Korean survivor Sergeant Oh Kyeongpil Song Kangho states that SooHyeok barged into the border house and shot everyone before retreating when the wounded Kyeongpil returned fire. ........

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