I saw this movie several times while stationed in Korea with the U.S. Army. Although I did not really speak any Korean I was able to understand the story line and found it to be a very good movie. I recently purchased the Barefoot Youth, another movie starring Shin Sung Il and Eom Aeng-Ran, and was surprised how I remembered almost every scene after 40 years. I have searched for years for this movie to also be released on DVD and will continue to hope that will be done. Of course the beautiful theme song added to the popularity of the film. At 20 years old I learned the words to the theme song and still remember them to this day. I would like to add that quite by accident I was at the Walker Hill Resort on the day the two actors were married and witnessed the ceremony. I was privileged in 1986, during another assignment to Korea, to actually meet the two actors in person. You could not ask for two more beautiful and down to earth people. I doubt that I would have been treated as warmly by any two American movie stars. Although I saw other movies starring the two actors (1964-65), I feel Dongbaek agashi was the best with Barefoot Youth being a close second, a movie also having a wonderful theme song. It is a shame that more of the Korean movies of that era are not available on DVD. The acting was such that the language barrier did not affect my understanding nor my appreciation of the movie. I have often told my American friends that I understood the movies in much the same way I would understand one of the old American silent movies. The acting was of a quality that did not require a fluency in the Korean language to both understand and appreciate the movie.