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Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission (2019)

Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission poster
Original title
말모이
Directed by
Eom Yu-na
Genre
drama film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
2h 15m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

During the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1940s, an illiterate man and a scholar team up to secretly compile a dictionary of the Korean language. They work together to preserve their native tongue before it is lost.

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What happens

Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission (Korean: 말모이) is a 2019 South Korean historical comedy-drama film written and directed by Eom Yu-na. It was released on January 9, 2019. The title refers to an old Korean dialect word which roughly translates to "collecting vocabularies." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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