Wanted: one good guy, just one....

Every single character in this long tale is depressing. After half an hour of such gloom I thought of giving up, but in fact, with the help of the fast-forward, continued to the end. My experience of life - and certainly of Korea - is that there is a good scattering of decent folk, so I found the whole thing unreal and unpleasantly bleak. A film about racial prejudice? No. An anti-war film? Not for me - too much gratuitous violence.