Details
Title: 모래시계 / Mo-rae-shi-gae
Also known as: Hourglass
Genre: Epic, drama, romance, action, crime
Episodes: 24
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 1995-Jan-10 to 1995-Feb-16
Air time: Monday through Thursday 10:00 PM
Synopsis
Sandglass is a Korean drama dealing with South Korea's politically turbulent recent past, airing on SBS in 1995. The drama lasted 24 episodes, and is one of the highest-rated dramas in Korean history.
The Sandglass (The Hourglass) is the story of two men whose friendship is put to the test through the 1970s and 1980s, one of Korea's politically tumultuous periods. Park Tae-soo (Choi Min-soo), tough and loyal, grows up to become a gangster and Kang Woo-suk (Park Sang Won), smart with firm moral values, grows up to become a prosecutor. Yoon Hye-rin (Ko Hyun Jung), a beautiful and spirited daughter of a very wealthy casino owner, is a classmate of Woo-suk in college. Hye-rin is introduced to Tae-soo via Woo-suk and they subsequently fall in love.
A notable aspect of the series is its handling of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement, an event during which the head of the military junta (which had taken over South Korea after the assassination of President Park Chung Hee), General Chun Doo Hwan, sent paratroopers into Kwangju to put down the rebellion resulting in a massacre of hundreds of civilians. Still a taboo subject during the airing of the series, the violent scenes (based on individual accounts), resulted in shock and grief for the South Koreans at that time (the mid 90's South Korea still had not come to terms with what happened after governments muzzled the free speech) to the extent that after the drama had gone to air, there was a visible output of films dealing with the subject (such as The Petal (1996) and Peppermint Candy (2000)) and even influenced the prosecution of ex-President Chun Doo Hwan responsible for the massacre (he was finally jailed, decades after the incident).
General:
Format.......: AVI
File Size....: 700,92 MiB
Duration.....: 1h 38mn
Bitrate......: 996 Kbps
Subtitles....: English softsubs
Source.......: TV
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Video:
Video Format......: MPEG-4 Visual
Video Codec.......: DivX 3 Low
Bitrate...........: 855 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 4:3
Resolution........: 512x384
Audio #1:
Format..........: MP3
Bitrate.........: 128 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Korean
Cast
Choi Min-soo as Park Tae-soo(박태수)
Park Sang Won(박상원) as Kang Woo-suk(강우석)
Ko Hyun Jung as Yoon Hye-rin(윤혜린)
Lee Jung Jae as Baek Jae-hee(백재희)
Park Geun Hyung
Jung Sung Mo
Jo Min Soo
Lee Seung Yun
Kim Jong Gyul as Lawyer Min
Jo Kyung Hwan
Kim Byung Gi
Jo Hyung Gi
Lee Doo Il
Kim In Moon
Jang Hang Sun
Kim Young Ae
Im Hyun Sik
Kim Jung Hyun
Hong Kyung In
Lee Hui Do
Maeng Sang Hoon
Lee Doo Il
Park Young Ji
Son Hyun Joo
Jung Myung Hwan
Kim Jung Hak
Han Kyung Sun
Choi Jae Ho
Kim Myung Gook
Do Yong Gook
Writer: Song Ji Na
Director: Kim Jong Hak
Awards:
31st Baeksang Awards (1995): Daesang (Grand Prize), Best Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Choi Min-soo), Best New Actor (Lee Jung Jae)
22nd Korean Broadcasting Awards (1995): Best Drama, Best Writer, Best Actor (Choi Min-soo)
8th Producers Association Awards (1996): Daesang (Grand Prize), Best Drama
