dongmakgol be an amazingly verdant and pristine village where a u navy pilot neil smith ( steve taschler ) crash land when his plane get catch in a surreal butterfly storm . the village which be totally incognizant of the korean conflict warmly welcome the foreigner . since no villager except the village teacher can speak any english they just try to communicate with him in their own language . at one moment the teacher ask hims how be you . but when smith answer him how do you think i be . i feel like sht . so the teacher get disillusion with the answer because the normal correct american answer should i be fine and and you . positive . the village look like a calm and serene place where time stand still . the villager have no knowledge of all the fancy trapping of modern life and technology or merely gun and weapon . their life go on simply and placidly till two group of korean soldier ( north korean and south korean ) end way up there . the north korean soldier and rhee soo hwa ( jeong jae yeong ) and chang young hee ( lim ha ryong ) and the two south korean soldier pyo hyun chul ( shin ha kyun ) and moon sang sang ( seo jae kyung ) destroy the storage of the village in their armed clash . apparently one of them just throw the hand grenade assume that it be just a dud . the two group of soldier be now bound to work together in the field to fill the storage of the village and they will actually rub off on each other somehow . the movie sound like a surreal piece of flick sometimes . for instance and at one moment they kill one of the wild boar in a transcendent work together . at another moment the corn blow out of the stockpile of the village fall down on the village like a pop corn . there be some interesting character in the movie too even if they may sound and look stereotype sometimes they be sweet and rich character like the village chief and the crazy girl yeo il ( kang hye jeong . ) welcome to dongmakgol may sound like a platitudinous movie for some . it may even sound cheesy at some point but it indeed one sweet anti war movie .