Plus the city that Hwang Jin-yi lived in is now in present-day North Korea, so the name choice is definitely not coincidental.
I didn't like the movie very much either for much the same reasons, and also suspect that if I hadn't watched the drama first, I might have liked it better.
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Date: 2011-09-05 06:29 pm (UTC)I didn't like the movie very much either for much the same reasons, and also suspect that if I hadn't watched the drama first, I might have liked it better.