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In
the tradition of Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and The Thin Red
Line, White Badge presents a view on the Vietnam War never
seen. Opening in 1979 during the student uprisings and turmoil
in South Korea, Han Kiju is trying to write a novel chronicling
Korean involvement in Vietnam but finds himself stuck. Han’s
battling his own memories from his yearlong tour in a Korean
infantry unit fighting alongside American allies in Vietnam.
He's besieged by flashbacks that remind him of the brutality
and lies that destroyed his innocence. After writing a brief
magazine article, he’s contacted by the only other survivor
from the platoon, Pyon, the one-time company clown driven
mad by the violence of the war and who now looks to Han for
some sort of emotional rescue.
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