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Why a film about a dictator has South Korea at war with itself
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Like many films released during Chuseok, South Korea’s national mid-autumn harvest festival, The Assassin(s) shot right to the top, selling more than a million tickets in its first four days. But the box-office success of the film about the 1974 assassination attempt on former president and military
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Why a film about a dictator has South Korea at war with itself
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