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The Secret Life of Words
2005
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파업전야
Duration: 1 h 45 m | 1990
There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.
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