Over the Border (), also known as South of the Border, is a 2006 South Korean melodrama film. It is Ahn Pan-seok's feature film directorial debut.
Plot Kim Sun-ho is a horn player for the Mansoodae Art Company, Pyongyang's state orchestra. He comes from a well-to-do family in North Korea and is about to marry his sweetheart, War Memorial guide, Lee Yeon-Hwa. One day, Sun-ho's family receives a letter from his grandfather in Seoul, whom they had thought was dead. They begin to exchange letters, but when the authorities discover their correspondence, this puts the Kim family in grave danger. They decide to flee North Korea and defect to the South, where they are initially penniless and friendless. Devastated that he had to leave Yeon-Hwa behind, Sun-ho works hard to save enough money to help her escape North Korea and join him. But one day, news reaches him that Yeon-Hwa has married another man. Slowly he emerges from his heartbreak and despair to find a way to adapt to life in the South, and eventually marries a kind South Korean woman named Seo Kyung-Joo. But his peaceful life is again disrupted when he learns that Yeon-Hwa has defected to the South, and contrary to what he had heard, she isn't married at all.
Cast Cha Seung-won as Kim Sun-ho Jo Yi-jin as Lee Yeon-Hwa Shim Hye-jin as Seo Kyung-Joo Song Jae-ho as Sun-ho's father Won Mi-won as Sun-ho's mother Yoo Hae-jin as Sun-ho's brother-in-law Lee Ah-hyun as Sun-ae Kim Cheol-Yong as Guide Jo Mun-Ui as Broker Lee Sang-Ju as Conductor Park Hyuk-kwon as Detective in charge of Yeon-Hwa Son Jin-ho as Photographer Boom as Reporter Choi Dae-Woong as Grandfather Yang Ji-Woong as Driver Gu Bon-Im as a Chinese restaurant owner Kim Sang-ho as Drunk (cameo) Son Beom-soo as Announcer (cameo)
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result 2006 5th Korean Film Awards Best New Actress Jo Yi-jin 2007 44th Grand Bell Awards Best Supporting Actress Shim Hye-jin Best New Actress Jo Yi-jin Best Art Direction Yang Hong-sam Best Costume Design Choi Seon-im
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