Small Town Rivals

Small Town Rivals (Hangul: ??? ??; RR: Yijang-gwa gunsu) is a 2007 South Korean film. Cho Chun-sam and Noh Dae-gyu, now both in their thirties, are old friends who went to the same elementary school. In their school days, Chun-sam was always the ambitious class president, while Dae-gyu had to settle for a role as vice president. Twenty years later their roles are reversed: Chun-sam is now a humble farmer who has assumed the post of village chief in his hometown, while Dae-gyu is the newly elected county magistrate. At first, Chun-sam asks his old friend for favours regarding the development of his village, but these requests are turned down. Later, when Dae-gyu proposes building a nuclear waste disposal facility in the county, Chun-sam leads demonstrations against the plan, turning old friends into bitter rivals. Small Town Rivals was releasd in South Korea on 29 March 2007, and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 440,516 admissions. The film went on to receive a total...