Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
Chae Yeong-shin

Park Dong-hyuk

Geon-bae

Geon-bae's wife

Won-jae

Dong-hwa (Dong-hyuk's younger brother)

Gap-san
Won-jae's wife

Hyeon-kyung

Song Jang-ro

Han

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Eok Swi-ne [Ok-bun's mother]

Jeong-deuk

Ok-hwa [Dong-hwa's wife]

Ki-chun

Mayor

Kim Mok-su

Yamada

Seok-dol

Chil-ryong

Park Cheom-ji

Dong-hyuk's mother

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Old woman

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