| Springtime | |||||||||||||
| Starring: | Choi Min-sik Jang Shin-young Kim Ho-jung Youn Yuh-jung Kim Kang-woo | ||||||||||||
| Director: | Ryu Jang-ha | ||||||||||||
| Producer: | Choi Eun-hwa | ||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Big Blue Film | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 128 minutes | ||||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
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Springtime (; lit. When Spring Comes) is a 2004 South Korean film starring Choi Min-sik as a struggling musician who takes a job as a music teacher in a rural mining town outside of Seoul.
To trumpeter Hyun-woo, life seems to remain forever locked in winter. In desperation, Hyunwoo signs up for a position teaching a children's wind ensemble at a small junior high school in a distant Dogye village. Worn-out instruments, tarnished trophies and frayed certificates testify to the poor conditions of this ragtag group. This leads Hyun-woo, together with his students, to take on a seemingly impossible challenge.