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2018 · Movie · 114 min · ★ 6.8 · 73% critics
With only a week before South Korea faces a financial collapse, a central bank official is pulled into an urgent crisis team. As pressure builds, the story follows the race to respond to a looming national emergency.
Also known as Sovereign Default
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Details
- Original title
- 국가부도의 날
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-11-28
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (64 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy tense, fact-based Korean dramas about political and national crises, especially if titles like The Attorney or 1987: When the Day Comes appeal to you; Not for you if you want lighter, character-first storytelling.
Pros: urgent setup; high-stakes crisis; timely subject | Cons: limited personal detail; dry for some; heavy economic focus
Themes
- bank
- based on true story
- finances
- economy
- financial crisis
- stock market
- government official
- economic crisis
- 1990s
- south korea
- seoul, south korea
Cast & crew
Kim Hye-soo
as Han Si-hyun
Yoo Ah-in
as Yoon Jung-hak
Huh Joon-ho
as Gap-su
Jo Woo-jin
as Vice-Minister of Finance
Vincent Cassel
as IMF Managing Director
Kim Hong-pa
as New Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs
Uhm Hyo-seop
as Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs
Kwon Hae-hyo
as The President of the Bank
Cho Han-cheul
as Lee Dae-hwan
Ryu Deok-hwan
as Orange
Directed by Choi Kook-hee